Women On How Red-Pill Content Ended Their Relationships

Kesley isn’t the only person whose relationship has fallen apart after her partner started to show interest in the ‘red-pill’ — a growing subculture that challenges feminist narratives and emphasizes traditional gender roles as the natural way of life. Taken from the movie The Matrix, it’s the concept of waking up to the realities of the world, while the likes of you and me are “blue pilled” or “normies” (incels are “black pilled”). In a viral TikTok captioned “RED PILL CONTENT RUINED MY RELATIONSHIP” Mila explains how she broke up with her boyfriend after he started listening to Fresh and Fit (a podcast widely criticized for misogyny) and consuming Men Going Their Own Way (MGTOW) content. The video has been met with over a dozen comments from people who claim to have lost partners to the ‘red-pill’.