The Red Pill Page #2

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the general state of affairs

for men and boys

in this culture.

Trying to articulate

the entire platform

of the men's rights movement

is kinda like trying

to understand a snow drift

one snowflake at a time.

It's a very,

very complicated matter.

Just consider this,

that 93% of workplace

fatalities are men.

Four of five suicides are men.

Men are dropping out

of higher education

at very alarming rates.

We're down to 38% now

of college students are men,

and it's dropping rapidly.

Male suicide, male abuse,

male unemployment,

male homelessness,

male failure in education,

male health issues.

You got the paternity

front issue,

and the wrongful

paternity issue,

the false allegation issue.

Men are sentenced

to 63% more prison time

for the same crime as women.

They're less likely

to see a doctor.

They're less likely

to have health insurance.

The family court system

truly is biased against men.

I mean, there's just

no question about it.

It's really the pro choice

for women only movement,

because men... they're denying

men any kind of choice

once a child is conceived.

Her body, her choice, right?

Think about men.

His body, his choice?

Not so much.

Because the U.S. government

does not want

to send you to die.

It would rather send me to die.

Young men that

are failing to launch.

They're staying

in their homes of origin

far past the time that

we would normally expect them

to individuate and move out

and go live their lives.

We have video game addiction.

We have pornography addiction.

We have the abuse of young boys

with drugs like Ritalin

to manage their behavior.

Almost all victims

of autism spectrum disorders

are boys.

Boys are most likely

to be homeless,

most likely to get cancer,

most likely to die young

of every major cause,

most likely to be arrested,

prosecuted,

imprisoned, and even executed

while being completely innocent.

It doesn't matter

what their race is.

It doesn't matter

what their ethnicity is.

It doesn't matter

what their religious

or non-religious views are.

It doesn't matter

if they're gay or straight.

Men and boys are in crisis

and they need your help

and they need your support

because they are

human beings, too,

and you will not

shame me or anybody here

into silence about it anymore.

But if you start

to talk about those issues

and address them

in terms of how they affect

men and boys as a group,

people get hostile about it.

The idea is that men

have all the rights.

They've always had the power.

But if that's true,

why can't men

talk about their problems?

And that's what really got me

interested in this

to begin with.

And shortly after I began

filming men's rights activists,

I realized my own views

were being challenged.

I kept a video diary

throughout filming,

and I've decided to share

some of those diaries with you.

I really do feel like learning

about the men's movement

and their specific issues,

the issues

that they have issue with,

it's hard for me

to completely understand them

and...

Just automatically feel welcome

in that space of talking

about these issues.

Because at least with feminism,

whenever I heard

about the issues

that feminists

were fighting against,

I always felt like I had

something to draw from

in experience

to be on board with that.

And that's always been

why I've been drawn

to the feminist movement,

is because a lot

of what they spoke about

I had personal experiences with.

And with the men's movement,

I have very little

personal experiences

with the issues

that they talk about.

A cab driver who is

driving a cab 70 hours a week

was not saying,

"I am earning this money

to have power over my wife."

He was earning this money

even though it took power

away from his life.

He was doing that so his child

wouldn't have to drive that cab.

The garbage collector does not

get up at 3:
00 or 4:00

in the morning

in rain and sleet and snow

and get out to do the garbage

so he can have more power

over his wife.

That's power he's losing

over his life

in order to make

his contribution,

his sacrifice,

his way of loving.

And this has been translated

into the culture of

"you make more money

than women do,

you must therefore

have more power."

Meet Warren Farrell,

best-selling author

and self-styled

social anthropologist,

leading an assault on our

traditional thinking about men.

I asked my

girlfriend at the time

to buy me as a gift,

I think it was for Christmas

or my birthday,

Warren Farrell's book

"the myth of male power,"

which she did, and it just

changed my whole life.

And his premise was while women

are often seen as sex objects,

men are often seen

as success objects.

And this resonated with me.

He wrote this book that

questioned our notions of power,

of who had power

and where it was,

and it questioned

the roles of men,

but not the way feminists

had always questioned

gender roles.

Every society that survived

survived based on its ability

to train its sons

to be disposable...

Disposable in war as warriors,

disposable in work

as firefighters,

as workers on oil rigs

and so on, coal miners,

and indirectly, therefore

disposable as dads.

What happens in men's life

when they're raised

that they're worthless

unless they're a provider,

that they must work

even if they have

to take on

extremely dangerous work,

they must get this done

or they're useless as men?

That is very,

very powerful stuff.

See, feminism did see accurately

that we value male work

more than we value female work.

But there's also the issue

that we value female life

more than we value male life.

Even when that plane

went down in New York City

a few years ago and, you know,

the pilot was a hero

for the way he landed it

and saved everybody...

Word arrived over

the city-wide fire frequency

that a commercial jet liner

was in the water

with 155 people on board.

Then, over the next few minutes,

the doors opened,

life vests were inflated,

and, women and children first,

everyone got off that plane.

They saved all the women first.

That's still... when I went

on a cruise, you know,

there's still women into

the life boats first.

Not because you're a man

so you should be able to swim

halfway across the ocean,

but because you're a man

you're expendable.

We have to look at not just

the glass ceilings,

but also the glass cellars.

And, Paul,

I think as you were saying,

we have to look at men

just not only as human doings,

but also as human beings.

When you survive because

somebody else is willing to die

like in war,

then that...

You're immune to the pain

of the people who are dying

because you have an investment

in their being willing to die.

You say, "I will build a statue.

I will remember you

in a history book."

But if you look at that

from another perspective,

that building of the statue

or remembering you

in a history book

is a bribe to be willing to die

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