The Red Pill

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Have you ever

been through something

and you don't know

what just happened,

but you know it was

important to go through?

This is that journey for me.

Misogynist

ranting would be at home

in the far reaching

Internet subculture

widely described as

the men's rights movement...

A toxic distillation of the worst

aspects of American sexism.

It's a universe of message

boards where men get together

to express their hatred

towards women.

Well, I thought men

had all of the advantages

in the world these days?

That's utter nonsense.

Men are routinely ground up

in a family court system

that is misandrist

and biased against them.

They are the majority

of the homeless.

They are the majority

of suicides.

They are majority

of the drug addicted.

They are the majority

of the unemployed.

They are majority

of the school drop outs.

They are the majority

of those in prison...

How do we know that they're

not the cause of these problems?

There's a reason that women live

longer, mark, let me tell you.

It is because we are stronger

and we are happier at the end

of the day than most men,

and that is factual

and you know it.

And when men are married

to women who scream like you

they just want to die sooner.

- I'm not screaming.

- When you have...

A voice for men...

An online hub

for men's rights activists.

They were founded by a man

named Paul Elam.

It's a website

called a voice for men

that's run by a man

named Paul Elam...

Which is "male"

spelled backwards,

but it is his

real name apparently.

It's a gathering

of women haters.

This Southern poverty law center

has classified that group

and men's rights groups

as hate groups.

He wrote a piece

declaring the month of October

to be

"bash a violent b*tch" month.

"I mean, literally to grab

them by the hair,

and smack their face

against the wall," he wrote.

Here he is.

You may be wondering

why I'm sitting in a car

with notorious men's

rights activist Paul Elam.

That's a valid question.

And to answer it,

I need to start

at the beginning...

The beginning of how

I became a feminist.

I was a quiet kid, preferring

to observe from afar.

My mom put me in theater classes

when I was eight years old

to break me out of my shell,

and I loved it,

so much to the point

that I decided

to move to Hollywood

when I was 18 years old

to become an actress.

What I wasn't prepared for

was to be pigeonholed

as the blonde who always died.

Billy?

Granted, I had a good scream.

But the characters I played

weren't alone

in feeling objectified.

I was commonly harassed

on the streets,

hit on by married producers,

told by photographers

to come back

when I lost 15 pounds

and got a boob job,

and a plethora of other

uncomfortable experiences,

all while still being

a teenager.

I started to realize

my role in the world

seemed a little too similar to the

unfortunate roles I was auditioning for,

and it was not how I saw myself

or the person

that I wanted to be.

So I quit acting

and bought a video camera

to tell the stories

I wanted to tell,

and now I've been making

documentary films since 2008

when I was 21 years old.

Most of my work has been about

women's issues and sexuality.

I've covered a range of topics

from the phenomenon

of purity balls,

to reproductive rights,

single motherhood,

and LGBT rights.

After releasing my film in 2012

about marriage equality,

I was at a loss of what topic

to explore next,

and that's when two horrific

stories broke the news.

Two star high school

football players

in Steubenville, Ohio,

have been found guilty of raping

a West Virginia teenager.

The video shows the former

Steubenville student

callously joking

about the incident.

That's like rape.

It is rape.

- Bro.

- They raped her.

- Bro.

- They raped her.

- This is the funniest...

- They raped her.

Outrage across India

as a 23-year-old woman,

the victim of one

of the most horrific rapes

India has ever heard of.

A 90-minute

horror for a 23-year-old

medicine student on this bus.

Gang raped and beaten,

her friend assaulted

and thrown out of the bus...

Every day, every woman is

facing violence on the streets.

People are scared...

I started to

research this rape culture.

A website called

a voice for men popped up.

Paul Elam wrote

about how women long

to live out

their rape fantasies,

to be taken by a man

she's never spoken to,

let alone given consent to.

As I read, I was asking myself,

is this the rape apologist

that I've been hearing about?

The victim blamer

who perpetuates rape culture?

I continued to read

a voice for men's website,

often stopping

around the half-way mark

in every article,

because I could only read

so many "b*tch,"

"f***," "feminazi,"

and "rapetard" words per minute.

But even still, I kept reading,

and thinking,

and reading some more.

I was trying to understand

how these,

what I perceived to be

women haters,

could have so many followers.

So I decided to meet

these MRAs...

The ones leading the movement,

and some of their

followers, too...

And this begins my journey

down the rabbit hole.

This, ladies and gentlemen,

is an historic moment.

Never before has there been

a gathering of this magnitude

to support men's

and boy's issues.

We have got serious problems.

I have been working

in this area,

advocating for the rights of...

MRA! Go away!

And here we go.

What you'll hear

is that we hate women.

You'll hear that it's a backlash

against women's rights.

You'll hear that we're regressives

that want women back in the kitchen

and making sandwiches

and barefoot and pregnant.

You're just bitter,

you're a loser,

you're a whiner, you're ugly,

you're undesirable, you're lazy.

You're scary,

you must be a racist,

you must be a misogynist.

When we do speak out,

women often don't want

to hear what we have to say,

and so then we're called names.

We're called whiners.

And this is the way people who don't

want men to talk about issues

try to shut us up.

Um, we all know that you guys

are a fascist Nazi front

group of white supremacists,

no other way to openly organize

other than calling yourselves

a men's rights group.

Yeah!

"We're somehow disempowered

because we're white men."

Maybe it's just because

you're pathetic.

We're here to fight

how misogynistic a**holes

think they have the right

to oppress women.

White men are starting

to feel misplaced

because women are sharing space.

It's disgusting,

and just grow the f*** up

and don't confuse suffrage

with oppression.

Everyone suffers.

It's universal.

I am a man and I need feminism.

We're feminists'.

We're fabulous'.!

We're here! We're queer!

And it is crystal clear

that the problems

for men and boys are real.

I would like

to turn the microphone

over to Paul Elam

of a voice for men

for some words.

Whoo!

This is a historic day.

I've never seen

a gathering like this

out of concern for

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