red pill

Meanings

Noun

• Something that enables or compels a person to overcome illusion and perceive harsher reality.
• Something that awakens men to a belief in gynocentrism in modern society.
• The subculture of men who share a belief in the gynocentrism of modern society; manosphere.
• The harsher reality itself.

Verb

• To enable a person to overcome illusion and perceive harsher reality.

Origin

• From a scene in the 1999 film The Matrix, where the main character, who lives in a virtual world known as the Matrix, is given a choice between a red pill that will allow him to learn the truth about the Matrix, and a blue pill that will return him to his simulated life.