The Red Pill Page #7

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This is my friend Darrah.

She's eight months pregnant

with her first child

and she's a lifelong feminist.

It seems from what I've read,

that women seem to have

more reproductive rights

than men do.

I don't know what to say.

We carry children.

They're never gonna

carry children.

It's just a different thing.

So, I guess,

as much as possible,

take the steps

to prevent yourself

being in that situation.

It's just, like, I don't

know what to say.

There's no...

There's nothing...

A woman has been...

Women have been blamed for,

and still are,

for unwanted pregnancies,

choosing to have an abortion,

not choosing

to have an abortion,

choosing to put

their child up for adoption.

When the burden lies on a single

mother if the man leaves,

societally, she's lam basted.

So there's a lot of things

that women deal with

in that regard

that men don't

actually deal with.

So I can have compassion

for their situation,

but I don't know

that it's gonna change

in the way they want it to,

because it's biology.

So if you're going to

be having sex

that could result in pregnancy,

and you haven't had

this conversation

with the woman that

you're having sex with,

you better have it.

You better have it fast.

That's when the man has

the ability to make decisions...

Either not to engage in sex

or to use condoms

and to use other forms

of contraception.

That's where his role comes in.

Once he's impregnated her,

she's the one now faced

with continuing a pregnancy,

faced with the health risks

that accompany pregnancy.

So... his rights have to

be exercised early.

But once she's pregnant,

all decisions must be hers.

Because ultimately,

she is the most impacted.

There's just no question.

She ultimately has the

responsibility for that child.

So before we were married,

he promised me

we would have two kids,

and now he doesn't want anymore.

Aww.

My friends think

I should trick him

and stop taking

my birth control.

Men have never been

in control of our bodies,

we're the ones in control.

Clap if you think

that she should trick him.

My people.

Up next, everybody...

So it sounds like

men's reproductive rights

are limited to the choice

of whether or not to have sex

and the choice of whether

or not to use protection.

But what if he's tricked

into fatherhood?

Or what if he's not

even the father?

What does paternity fraud

look like?

It's ugly.

It's extraordinary ugly.

And we have to distinguish it

between paternity fraud

- and wrongful paternity.

- What's the difference?

Wrongful paternity

can be innocent.

"Okay, we went to a party,

I had sex with six guys.

I think it was when I was

hanging out the window

I got pregnant,

but I wasn't sure.

But you know, if anybody

knows that guy's name,

would you please

have him call me?"

And then she names

one of the other guys

and he didn't have sex with her.

It wasn't malicious.

It wasn't intentional.

She wasn't trying

to harm anybody.

She was just trying

to figure out who it was.

Wrongful paternity.

More often,

and less facetiously,

"okay, I'm married

and I had an affair."

Obviously, here there's

all sorts of problems,

because there are more victims

than the person who's named

as dear old dad

who may be the wrong one.

There's everybody

involved in the family,

like the situation in Texas

where the family had five

little towhead kids...

All guys, all little blondos.

And all of a sudden,

one day one of the little

blondo kids gets in trouble,

has to go to the hospital.

They can't get ahold of mom.

They get ahold of dad.

Dad rushes to the hospital,

needs to give blood.

Whoops.

Can't do it. Wrong blood.

"What?"

All the kids look alike.

Turns out it was the guy

down the street.

- You've heard of this case?

- It's a real case.

So what happens to this family?

Can you fathom what happens

to this family?

How do think the kids feel

when they find out

dear old dad isn't dear old dad

and it's the guy down

the street?

How do you think dad feels,

that these five little boys

that he still loves dearly,

when he finds out they're

not his bio children.

But he can't tear away,

'cause he loves them.

He's devoted

himself to these...

How do you think he feels?

I mean, it's horrific.

Horrific.

That's not wrongful.

That's deliberate.

- So that's paternity fraud?

- That's paternity fraud.

She knew who the father was

and lied about it.

Paul was right when he said

trying to understand

the men's rights movement

is like trying

to understand a snowdrift

one snowflake at a time.

There are unique

father's rights issues

that vary between

unmarried, married,

and divorced dads.

But there are also

men's right's issues

for non-biological fathers...

Like this man

who is facing jail time

for failure to pay child support

for a child that DNA tests

prove isn't his.

Carnell Alexander still owes

more than $30,000 to the state

for a child that's not his

because the mom

wrote his name down

because she needed

to name someone

in order to get

welfare benefits.

I had to put him down

as the father.

That was the only way

I could get assistance.

I'm almost homeless.

I'm almost in jail.

I'm out of work

my money is being

threatened to be taken.

He says the law

needs to be changed,

so when this happens,

as it often does,

other men don't become

dad by default.

A lot of times

people wonder about MRAs,

"why are you guys so angry?"

And my answer to that is,

"why aren't you?"

How can anybody look at this

and not be angered by it?

And the only answer to that I've

ever been able to come up with

is that people aren't angry

because they don't see men

as human beings.

I continued

traveling north America,

meeting MRAs

from all walks of life,

hearing their personal stories,

their red pill moments.

I met a young man

who was sexually abused

when he was 16 years old

while living

at a residential home

for people with

developmental disabilities.

She was the only woman

I've done anything ever with,

partly because it just

messed me up so much.

She continues working there.

She hit me in the face.

She actually hit me

throughout the house,

chased me throughout the house.

When I reported my domestic

assault to police officers,

I did not at all bring up the fact

that I was sexually assaulted.

Because if he wasn't

going to believe

that I was a victim

of domestic violence,

there was no way

he was gonna believe

that I was gonna be

a victim of sexual assault.

I met the honey badgers,

women who are

men's rights advocates.

And then there

was a 15-year-old boy,

there was

a 35-year-old woman,

and then later on

she came out of jail

and she was able

to collect child support

from this boy that she raped.

Yeah.

After getting out of jail.

So there's lack

of fairness for men

in the court systems.

When police officers show up

to a domestic violence case

often men were just taken away

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