Most importantly, what I will write will not be a defense of Woody Allen. Most precisely, it will be a defense of his defense.
The loudest arguments have been that it's almost impossible to believe that Farrow accused Allen out of vindictiveness. My argument is that it is not impossible and that the core articles cited in Farrow's defense raise a lot of red flags when interpreted with the red pill in mind.
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Like everything in the world of ideas, the definition of the "red pill" is constantly being argued. Before I go forward discussing Maureen Orth's articles in support of Mia Farrow, I'd like to establish what I mean by the term.
Most of the community's energy comes from young men. Their definition is that the red pill is about scoring notches in the bed post. The less priapic among them broaden the category to male self-improvement, which includes the ability to score HB8s and 9s.
This makes sense. The red pill community evolved from the seduction and pick-up artist communities. The older groups thought mechanically, trading specific techniques that were effective in attracting female attention. The red pill is more conceptual, triangulating principles from the maneuvers that worked to understand what motivates women.
But generally the term is used to mean an understanding of the truths about women rather than what we are taught or what women themselves say.
First and foremost is the idea that women are different from men. Thus, they use different techniques to get what they want (and what they want is different, too). This is just as true in matters of misbehavior as it is in everyday behavior. It's the former that most interests me.
So, when I use the term "red pill" in my upcoming analyses, I'm talking about the behaviors that women deny and that we aren't allowed to talk about. The behaviors that get shouted down as misogynistic and, when proven, are made out to be anomalies.
The best function of the red pill has been to create a space where all the men of the world can compare notes about the behavior of the women in their lives. To everyone's surprise, we keep seeing the same tricks come up, tricks that we've been taught not to notice and that almost never happens.
Whereas once a husband was confounded by his wife's actions, sexual liberation has opened the data set of the average man. The average man is now comparing notes. The old narrative is shaking loose and its adherents are hysterical about it.
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