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The ‘Red Pill’ Remains Undefeated

Posted on | February 15, 2025 | Comments Off on The ‘Red Pill’ Remains Undefeated

Rollo Tomassi: Godfather of the ‘Red Pill’

Late Friday the political world was shaken when MAGA influencer Ashley St. Clair revealed that last year she gave birth to Elon Musk’s 13th offspring. Quickly, I sought out Rollo Tomassi’s take on this development, which was of course highly amusing.

Rollo (a pseudonym) has long pointed out that “Red Pill” is not ideology, but praxeology (“the study of human action and behavior”). It’s not about dictating what you should do, but rather about understanding what you actually do. And when you consider what Ashley St. Clair actually did — clawing her way to prominence in MAGA world, in order to get herself inseminated by The Richest Man in the World — you’ve got to tip the cap to Rollo, who has lectured endlessly about hypergamy as the motive force of female behavior. It doesn’t get more Red Pill than this.

Recall that in 2019, I traveled to Orlando to cover a Red Pill conference where Rollo was the featured speaker:

While most of these guys are Trump supporters, the “red pill” is not about politics in the usual sense. The phrase, borrowed from the 1999 film The Matrix, refers to seeing through socially accepted illusions to understand the brutal truths of human nature. A major popularizer of this concept as applied to male-female relationships is Rollo Tomassi, author of the 2013 book The Rational Male and its sequels. Tomassi was introduced at the 21 Convention as the “godfather” of the red-pill community. “A lot of men are finding the red pill because they’re looking for answers,” Tomassi said during an on-stage discussion with popular Tulsa radio talk-show host Pat Campbell. Often the experience of divorce or the break-up of a romantic relationship leads men to discovering the online community known as the “manosphere,” where Tomassi’s books about “intersexual dynamics” are widely read. Campbell says he’s heard from men who say their lives were quite literally saved by reading The Rational Male. “They were ready to end it all, zero out,” Campbell told me, describing men — typically in their 40s — who were devastated by divorce. Tomassi has become a regular weekly guest on Campbell’s morning program on Tulsa’s KFAQ-AM.
“The feminization of culture” has developed a woman-centered “gynocratic ideal” in Western societies, Tomassi explained to an audience of about 100 men attending the conference. This creates a concept in which fathers are regarded as superfluous in their children’s lives, an effect compounded by the fact that 77% of teachers are women, so that children are raised under female authority, with little effective male influence in their lives. “The systematic disempowerment of men” in modern culture, Tomassi said, is a major cause of what he called “the ‘Lost Boy’ generation” of young men lacking the ability to live productive, independent lives and form successful relationships with women. .. .

You can read the rest to remind yourself. What does Rollo mean by “the feminization of culture”? Among other things, it means that boys learn to be “simps,” forever trying to please girls who, in turn, learn to be cruel ice queens, always expecting servile abjection from men.

There are unrealistic expectations on both sides of this dynamic, fed by popular culture. For example, young men generally do not seem to realize how rare beautiful women are. Even at the peak age of youthful attractiveness — late teens, early 20s — only a single-digit percentage of women are truly beautiful. Stroll around a college campus and keep a running total in your mind. Maybe 25% or 30% of college girls could be categorized as “reasonably attractive” by a discerning observer, and the real beauties are seldom more than 1-in-20. Why is it, then, that so many barely-average young men let themselves be deluded into thinking that there is some adorable cutie out there just dying to meet them? Feminists have identified the “Manic Pixie Dream Girl” trope in movies as encouraging such beliefs, but they overlook how movies and TV shows similarly foster unrealistic expectations in young women. Not long ago, Instapundit noted that women have fetishized tall men to such an extent as to exclude the vast majority of men from their potential choices. Only 16% of men are six feet tall or more, so if a woman sets her dating app preferences to make six feet the minimum height — and this is apparently quite common — then she never even sees 84% of men on the app.

One sees a lot of young women bragging online about having “high standards” for men — the imperious Ice Queen posture — but on closer examination, this boast is usually just an excuse, a rationalization for why they don’t have a boyfriend. Oh, they’re too good for the available men, and can’t lower their standards by dating any man who might actually be interested in them. This is the mirror-reverse of male “incel” types like Elliot Rodger, who styled himself “The Supreme Gentleman” and harbored a deadly grudge toward all the pretty girls he couldn’t get.

Well, I’ve followed that digression far enough. My point is that Rollo Tomassi’s Red Pill praxeology is about getting men to see the patterns of female behavior in a realistic way, rather than to let themselves be deluded by a bogus Hollywood-manufactured romantic idealism — an appealing fantasy of what women “should” be, as opposed to the reality of what women actually are. Think about all the earnest MAGA guys who might once have had a foolish crush on Ashley St. Clair, but now she’s living in a $15,000-a-month apartment and raising the baby of the World’s Richest Man. If only they’d listened to Rollo . . .



 

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