#All the feminist who fought for women to have a better future rolling in their f*cking graves

[lainalit]

Every women over the age of 20 in this fandom who still calls Tamlin "Tampon" peaked in High school💀

[aminta]

I'm genuinely exhausted and more than a little angry that we have to keep dealing with people telling us that my family is already a lost cause. I'm trying to assume good faith on your part, but just know when I say Biden is killing my family that's not a metaphor.

I haven't told anyone else not to vote for him. I'm very, very clear that I won't be doing so.

That said...

Bluntly, I can't outline an electoral solution, because I don't believe electoralism provides a solution. I think we can mitigate some of the harms on the local level, and I do vote in local elections and encourage others to do so.

But electing Biden in 2020 didn't remove the specter of fascism. He refused to expand the Supreme Court, and more and more of our rights have been eliminated at that level. His justice department failed to prosecute Trump's attempted coup in a timely manner, and now Trump is running again. He hasn't curbed police violence--he increased funding for cops!--or violence against migrants at the border. He rolled back what little pandemic response we had, and people are still getting sick, dying or being left with permanent disabilities. Nothing you dislike about Trump is materially better under Biden, and Biden has not lifted a finger to prevent another Trump victory. And all of that was before Biden started committing genocide.

So. "Who should we vote for?" is not a very useful question. A better question, I think, is, what would you be doing if the fascists had already won? What actions could you take that would help members of your community survive? What resistance would you undertake?

It is not too soon to be doing those things right now.

There’s a reason why an old school segregationist who loves mass policing and imprisoning Black people, migrants and the poor was attached to a historic first Black President and it’s not because Obama or Biden are great guys who want the liberation of the oppressed. No, they were attached because they both represented the opposite.

By joining a Black activist with a white segregationist, they ensured that the inclusion of people of color into the American Empire didn’t threaten that empire or its ambitions. It’s why  Obama expanded the Forever Wars, the drone warfare program, and deported more people than any president before him combined. The Obama-Biden administration was put in place to reaffirm and cement liberal white supremacy in this country, not reject it. Trump was a white backlash to the notion that white supremacy could be expanded. It’s just two dueling brands of racism.

Kamala Harris made her career by locking up Black people in the Bay Area. Her track record consists of terrorizing Black communities through the prison industrial complex. She then became the top cop of California. Her track record consists of rampant anti-Blackness. Not only did she fight to maintain prison slavery, she also fought legislation that would require her to investigate the brutal executions of Black folks by the police. Kamala Harris is also anti sex work. She repeatedly sued backpage despite many sex workers advocating to keep backpage as it kept them safer than being on the streets. Kamala Harris is an example of a Black person weaponizing their Black identity to excuse the violence they have committed against the Black community. Take Kamala Harris’s race away from the equation, and judge her by her actions. Her actions are those of a white supremacist

Kamala is not a Feminist Badass.  She’s not a “future is female” moment.  She’s not a girlboss, she’s not “black girl magic”. 

SHE IS A ZIONIST, MARRIED TO A ZIONIST, WHO SUPPORTS ZIONIST POLICIES UP TO AND INCLUDING THE ANNEXATION OF PALESTINIAN LAND AND GENOCIDE.

She’s happy to help kill Palestinian women, denying them a future, keeping them from being successful and showing off their shine and spark and personality.  So I don’t wanna hear fuck all about how her presidency is a glass ceiling moment or #feminism. She’s a perpetuator of the status quo and a staunch supporter of genocide.  I mean for fucks sake she just met with AIPAC and enthusiastically spouted her commitment for their right to “self defense”, which is not a right they have as an occupying force - WHICH THE UN ACKNOWLEDGES THAT THEY ARE. 

There is literally no justification for these behaviors, actions, and violence.  Because those actions are not self defense … those actions are genocidal, murderous, and cruel.  But Kamala Harris has no conscience.  Anybody world leader who would still support Israel after 9 months is intentionally genocidal.  They know what these people are doing is wrong and they DO NOT CARE. 

Lastly.  And this is where I really lose my fucking shit.

YOU PEOPLE COULD’VE RALLIED BEHIND THIRD PARTY CANDIDATES.  YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT KAMALA.

YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT HER POLICIES OR HER STANCE ON ANYTHING.

BUT JOE SAID “SHES IN MY PLACE NOW” AND ALL THE SUDDEN IT’S #SLAY #GIRLBOSS #IM WITH HER.  Fuck you.

ill be fr anon i have a life and shit to do today. could i get a tldr

[aion-rsa]

Captain Marvel: The Many Careers of Carol Danvers

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What did Carol Danvers do before becoming Captain Marvel? A lot of different jobs...

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Long before she became Captain Marvel, Carol Danvers kept busy with a whole litany of careers. She has worked for various real and fictional parts of the U.S. government, like the Air Force and Agents of SHIELD, and has teamed up with everyone from the X-Men and the Ultimates to the Starjammers and Operation: Lighting Storm. Whether in costume or not, Carol has always been one of Marvel’s hardest working heroes.

Filene’s Basement

Even (future) superheroes need after-school jobs. As a kid from a working-class family – in most of her incarnations – Carol needed to work for her pocket money and possible college funds. As a kid from the Boston area, Carol worked retail at the now-defunct local institution Filene’s Basement. I wish we could have seen her during the famed Running of the Brides!

Pilot, US Air Force

As a young girl, Carol Danvers always dreamed of being a pilot and flying to space. In spite of a tumultuous home life thanks to her alcoholic and sometimes abusive father, she got great grades and even went on to graduate as Valedictorian. Unfortunately, none of that mattered much because Carol’s father only had enough money to send one of his three kids to school, and he chose one of Carol’s less academically-inclined brothers. After all, a girl will be well taken care of once she finds a husband, Mr. Danvers reasoned.

read more: Captain Marvel Ending Explained

Heartbroken and pissed off but never one to give up, Carol enrolled in the Air Force as soon as she could as a way to pay for college and get in the air right away. She had a meteoric rise in the Air Force, rising the rank of Major (I guess Captain just sounds better?) Carol would rely on her military training for the rest of her life, piloting just about anything that flies and relying on her hand to hand combat training in her early days as Ms. Marvel.

At some unspecified point, Danvers was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor, the highest award that can be given to an individual serving in the US armed services for valor against an enemy force. Presumably, Carol earned it at some point during her service in the Air Force.

Spy

Before she worked at NASA, Carol Danvers fell into life as a spy after a failed mission left her grounded and introduced her to Agent Michael Rossi. At various times, she was referred to as working for the CIA, DIA (Defense Intelligence Agency) and USAF Special Operations (the Air Force’s intelligence service). Continuity error or ultimate deception to keep her cover? Tomato, tomahto.

Carol travelled the world in this capacity, going to places like Berlin, the USSR, Afghanistan and Uzbekistan. She worked with Nick Fury (before he was Director Fury or either of them even worked for SHIELD) and Agent Logan before he was Wolverine. At one point, Danvers was captured by a man named Ghazi Rashid when Tony Stark’s new plane didn’t live up to the promise of being invisible. He tortured her, but she outsmarted him and fought her way out, killing for the first time.

read more: Where Does the Captain Marvel Soundtrack Fit Into the MCU?

Her spy career eventually ended after a mission went sideways, resulting in Carol being trapped in the Soviet prison Lubyanka. Michael Rossi and Logan both broke protocol to rescue her, but she had been captured and tortured too many times and was done with the spy game.

NASA Security Chief

Carol was NASA’s youngest security chief when fans first met her 1963. She is sometimes said to work for the fictional Cape Kennedy, and other times Cape Canaveral, both of which are located in Florida. This job is how Carol first encountered Cavourite Crystals and of course Dr. Lawson, AKA the Kree warrior Mar-Vell.

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Mar-Vell had been sent to earth as a spy but wound up falling in love with the planet and its people, opting instead to protect them both. It was while working for NASA that Carol gained her powers, in an accident with a Psyche-Magnitron and the Kree villain Yon-Rogg, who was trying to attack Mar-Vell at the time.

Unfortunately, in the first few issues of Ms. Marvel (1977-1979), it was revealed that her inability to capture Mar-Vell had tanked her reputation at work. Carol later revisited NASA during her time travels, using her knowledge of the place to break in and achieve her aims.

Avenger

Carol has been a member of the Avengers in various incarnations on and off since her first solo series was cancelled in 1979. She even led the team alongside Tony Stark—though that didn’t stop her from later coming to blows with Tony and putting him in a coma in Civil War II.

As her popularity has risen, Captain Marvel has become a more central figure in various Avenger crossover events, like her prominent role as a pro-superhero registration enforcer alongside Tony Stark in the first Civil War, to the maybe-she’s-a-Skrull, maybe-she’s-not of "Secret Invasion." One of her best crossover events, and perhaps the clearest sign of her commitment to the Avengers and their mission, is The Enemy Within. Captain Marvel took center stage, dealing with a brain lesion that made using her powers detrimental to her own well-being, but ultimately vital to saving New York and her teammates.

Carol has made two notable exits from the Avengers. The first was after she emerged from being brain-washed by Marcus, a villain who then got her pregnant so she would… give birth to him? Yeah, it doesn’t make a whole lot more sense in the comic, but the worst part is that her fellow Avengers congratulated her on her rapid pregnancy and encouraged a very brainwashed Carol to leave with her captor. The Avengers viewed it as a happy ending rather than an abusive, mind-controlling relationship. When Carol was free of the mind control, she quit the Avengers, horrified and disgusted that her friends and teammates couldn’t see the situation for what it was.

read more: Captain Marvel Comics History & Origin Explained

Carol’s second exit was equally fraught, but for very different reasons. After a lifetime of trauma exacerbated by losing her god-like Binary powers, she hid her wavering powers and the alcoholism she used to cope from the rest of the team. As a result, Carol endangered her teammates. When she couldn’t admit that she had a problem or take responsibility for her actions, the Avengers held a court marshal and Carol quit before they could finish voting her out.

Author, freelance writer

After Carol left NASA, she spent a couple of years working as a freelance writer, including a high-profile piece about Diana Ross for Rolling Stone. She also found the time to write and sell a book on the space industry during this period. It did well enough that the royalties allowed her to afford a penthouse by Central Park.

read more: Who Are The Skrulls?

Later, after leaving the Avengers and going into recovery for alcoholism, Carol moved to Seattle and wrote a few novels, one of which is a “fictional” account of her time in the cosmos as Binary.

Editor, Woman Magazine

To start out her first solo series, Ms. Marvel (1977), Carol Danvers moved to New York City and took on a new job at Woman Magazine, a women’s magazine from The Daily Bugle’s magazine department. The combination of the “Ms.” in Carol’s moniker and her post at a progressive women’s magazine was a direct reference to feminist icon Gloria Steinem, who launched Ms. Magazine in 1971, with another super heroine on it: Wonder Woman.

J. Jonah Jameson was annoyed that the magazine had been focusing on, “women’s lib, interviews with Kate Millet, stories about careers for women,” while he was focusing elsewhere. He had a very specific notion of what a women’s magazine should entail: new diets, fashions and recipes. “Useful” articles. But Carol had other plans.

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One of Carol’s first assignments was to write an expose about “that Marvel dame,” (As Jonah called her), the mysterious new super-powered person in NYC, Ms. Marvel. When Carol first got the assignment, she was experiencing blackouts and her powers manifested as a separate personality entirely, with neither Carol Danvers nor Ms. Marvel knowing about the other. After a few issues she figured it out, and she, like her coworker Peter Parker before her, was in the position of having to “investigate” her own alter ego.

Carol had little patience for Jameson’s BS during her tenure with the magazine (and vice versa!), something she made clear right away by negotiating her salary of $30,000 (over $125k in today’s dollars). She was good at fielding new stories and wouldn’t like Jameson reassign her scoops to male reporters. One of her former NASA colleagues let Carol know about the first planned space shuttle with women in the crew – a great story for a women’s magazine, and one Jameson tried to give to his male Daily Bugle reporters. Carol wouldn’t budge, saying her source would only work with her.

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Carol made some great friendships through this job, including MJ Watson, reporter/love interest Frank Gianelli, and Tracey Burke, a famed photojournalist who Carol hired as her Assistant Editor. By the time they met, Tracey was already sober, and when Carol’s alcoholism developed, Tracey picked up on it and tried to intervene. She was unsuccessful, but she did talk to Tony Stark, who was able to get through to Carol.

Chief Field Leader, Homeland Security

During one of Carol’s tenures as an Avenger (this time as Warbird), George W. Bush gives her a new job as the Chief Field Leader of Homeland Security. While Dubya himself appearing in a comic book is pretty bonkers (though not all that infrequent), the gig makes some sense, considering Carol’s background in security. It also serves to highlight her complicated relationship with government entities and authority in general. While Carol frequently fights with authority figures including heads of state and superior officers in the military, in many ways she’s still a company man. Sadly, we don’t get to see her take on this challenge.

Head of Banshee Squadron

As the only powered person in her particular corner of Battle World, Carol lead the Banshee Squadron, a group of women fighter pilots. This alternate reality “reunited” Carol with more or less the same group of women civilian fighter pilots from World War II who she had met while time-traveling. Always big on bravado and in-air theatrics, Carol messes with her squad relentlessly in the air, daring them to tag her as she flies around sans plane.

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Eventually, though, Carol & co. have too many unanswered questions about this strange world, so they work together to defy the authorities and fly past the boundaries of safety. Once again Carol dances a fine line with authority, as she is a ranking member of an oppressive regime, but doesn’t hesitate to ask tough questions, harbor a fugitive, and eventually jailbreak herself and her squad to see the truth about the wider world.

Head of Alpha Flight

Alpha Flight was envisioned as Earth’s first line of defense, a top-of-the-line space station that eventually helped create an impenetrable shield to protect the earth, at Captain America’s urging since there was apparently a Chitauri invasion in Earth’s future.

Rhodey was uncertain how a lone wolf like Carol would take to running a team. She had some issues with the bureaucratic aspects of her job at first, like dealing with the Board of Governors that included T’Challa, the president of the United States, a Canadian PM who bears more than a passing resemblance to Michael Trudeau, and several other world leaders.

The core team itself was mostly made up of Canadian inhumans, including Lt. Commander Abigail Brand, who was skeptical of Carol’s leadership skills, Sasquatch (Walter Langkowski), Puck (Eugene Judd), Aurora (Jeanne-Marie Beaubier), and scientist Wendy Kawasaki. They were frequently visited by the Guardians of the Galaxy and eventually joined by a scientist from Tony Stark’s arctic lab.

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Alpha Flight came to an end after the “Secret Empire” story arc. Unbeknownst to Carol and everyone else, Cap was an undercover Hydra agent. He locked Alpha Flight, the Guardians, and the Ultimates outside of the shield while they were fighting off that Chitauri invasion, to keep them from being able to meddle in his plan for world domination back on Earth.

That combined crew up on Alpha Flight spent months outside the shield, fending off the Chitauri and trying to find a way back to Earth to help. Eventually they sent Alpha Flight into the earth’s shield – not the first time Carol destroyed her expensive post – and were able to get back to Earth, but Alpha Flight was shuttered not long after the dust settled.

TV Show Consultant

Captain Marvel became incredibly popular as a result of the events in The Enemy Within. So when they needed more funds to keep the Alpha Flight space program operational, T’Challa came up with the idea to capitalize on Carol’s popularity with a television show about her life as a superhero.

Called Cap’n Marvel, the show drew extreme ire from its inspiration, who disliked the sexy take on her costume and the emphasis on a fictional love life, with a guy who always seemed to be more powerful than the title character. The rest of Alpha Flight was included in the cast, although Lt. Commander Abigail Brand was turned into a dog with green fur to match her green hair. Ouch.

read more: Complete Guide to Captain Marvel Easter Eggs

Carol dodged her duties with the show whenever possible and threatened her friends that if they pissed her off she’d get them written into the show. When the cats and crew went up to Alpha Flight space station to get a more “realistic” take on the show, they got a lot more than they bargained for and cancelled it.

Captain Marvel is now in theaters. Find out more about the film here. 

Delia Harrington a freelance writer and photographer focusing on social justice and pop culture through a feminist lens. Read more of her work for Den of Geek here.

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What Being a Feminist Means to Me!

Hi Everyone!  This is a long post, so I hope you'll grab another cup of coffee and read!  Disclaimer:  This post is MY opinion.

Recently, I was having dinner with a group of people, including a young college girl.  She shocked me by making a flippant comment about being a feminist.  Call me naive, but I thought that most younger women were feminists.  To me, being a feminist is a knowledge that you have the freedom to choose...but before that, to even know that you have a choice.  It took me many years to realize that I could rise above the way of thinking that had dominated my life for so many years. The way of thinking that stopped me from finishing college, that caused me to get married when I was 19, that caused me to quickly get married again and, that left me feeling that I was stuck and financially dependent because of my choices.  Financial freedom isn't just about having the money to pay for the necessary things in life (and sometimes more), it can also be a freedom of the mind allowing you to live the life that you choose.  Women have historically made less money than men for doing the same job and have in the past and maybe still are limited as to the jobs that they are hired to do.  According to the National Women's Law Center, "Women in the U.S. who work full time, year round are paid only 80 cents for every dollar paid to men — and for women of color, the wage gap is even larger."  They have been and still are, the primary caregivers to their children as well as having the responsibility for taking care of the home.  In addition, the responsibility of taking care of aging parents also usually falls on women.  I think that some very progressive couples are starting to show that sharing the responsibilities of the family is possible, but it is still, unfortunately, not the norm.

I will agree that I made the choice to be in every situation, however,  the point I'm making is that there is a different way of thinking by most younger women, because society has become open to the idea that women can be, do, and have anything they want and are willing to go after.  Younger women benefit from the collective societal ways of thinking whether they realize it or not, just as I was affected by the collective way of thinking when I was growing up.  I'm saddened to know that there are women (especially very young women) who don't understand that the lives they are able to live now and the opportunities that they are afforded, were fought for by strong women in previous generations.  Can you believe that just 55 years ago, in 1963 when I was born, women had only been able to vote for 43 years.  That means that when my grandmothers were 18, they legally could not vote.

I decided to look up the definition of feminism, because I started writing this purely based on my emotions.  Here is the definition from Marion Webster:

the theory of the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes

organized activity on behalf of women's rights and interests

From Wikipedia:

Feminism is a collection of movements aimed at defining, establishing, and defending equal political, economic, and social rights for women. Existentialism (a philosophical theory or approach that emphasizes the existence of the individual person as a free and responsible agent determining their own development through acts of the will.)

In order for our society to change we have to begin to change the circumstances for women in all cultures because we have become a global world, we should care simply because we are human.  We are all one and when someone hurts, everyone ultimately hurts.  It's going to have to be the priority going forward.

I believe in the idea of equal partnership.  I believe in the idea that we should be on the same team, that women and men are more alike than different.  We should all be working for the best society possible and in order for that to happen, we all have to be playing by the same rules.  We all want, in the end, the same basic things and we ALL feel pain when we are hurt.  That is one of the most profound things we share as human beings.  Hurt people hurt people and there is a great deal of hurt in this world.  People hurt people as a result of their own inner strife and pain.  Now that we have begun in "mainstream thinking" to move past the antiquated societal beliefs that women are not equal to men, we must continue to make sure that the care and ensured equality of women and, as a result, children, is reflected in our laws.

I might be going down a treacherous path here, but I'm only sharing what I've learned and what really shocked me when I started to do research on this post (a simple google search is mind boggling), were the things I read about the white supremacy movement when it comes to women.  There seems to be an organized plan and there are surprisingly women on board.  Why would women (or anyone) agree to that in the first place???  It's an extreme view and one of the best reasons to support feminism.  There is soooo much extreme thought out there and this blog post was originally going to just be my opinion on how the women that came before us had worked so hard to get us to where we are today.  What I quickly realized after doing more research than I had intended is that we have come a long way, but we still have so far to go!

It seems that we are in a very contradictory time with the combination of the "Me too" movement and the current state of rolling back so much of the progress that has been made in social reform over the past years.  (This is my personal opinion).   

I am so grateful that my daughters live in a time where they have the opportunity to do anything they want to do.  They are educated and smart (two different things) because they realize the choices they make in their lives will affect their futures.  Realizing that you have a choice is half the battle. 

It is my hope that we can come together as a country and most especially as women for the good of everyone.  We all must support one another and women must support each other!

I was recently at a blogger conference in NYC and Gloria Steinem was the keynote speaker.  As usual, I was one of the oldest women there and completely honored to be in the presence of such a legend.  I listened intently as she spoke and I made a few comments after to a few of the other girls there, only to realize they had no idea who she even was!  Kudos to the organizers of this blogger conference for introducing her to a younger generation.  We all pave the way for the generations to come and the responsibility for making the world a better place is up to all of us!

I would love to know your thoughts on this post!  There are so many things running through my mind these days!  Please leave me a kind considerate comment if you would like!  Thanks for reading!

[miscellanyblue]

Tales from ‘the heart of modern misogyny’

The Daily Beast unmasking of a New Hampshire House member as the founder of a notorious online forum that has been called “the heart of modern misogyny” sent shockwaves through the state’s political community. The governor, House speaker and GOP party chair all called on Rep. Robert Fisher (R-Laconia) to resign and last week the Republican-led House voted 307-56 to review Fisher’s actions for possible sanctions.

In a Laconia Daily Sun column, Fisher implicitly acknowledged his role in creating the forum when he explained and defended comments attributed to Reddit user pk_atheist in Bonnie Bacarisse’s detailed investigation. The previously anonymous Redditor is the founder of The Red Pill, which bills itself as a forum to discuss “sexual strategy in a culture increasingly lacking a positive identity for men.”

Fisher’s defense pointedly omitted any mention of The Red Pill, either his role in creating it or his ongoing involvement in the community. He will have a chance to expound on that Tuesday when he appears before the House Legislative Administration Committee. Here’s what we found.

‘Friends, I am stepping down’

On January 4, 2013, pk_atheist handed off the role of The Red Pill moderator to RedPillSchool, a Redditor whose account had been created just 17 minutes before the message from pk_atheist.

“Friends, I am stepping down,” he wrote. “Thanks for the great month.. this place has really grown and I'm excited for its future. Unfortunately due to circumstances I won't be bringing up here I am officially stepping down as a moderator and will no longer take part in any way with this community.”

“But don't worry..” pk_atheist wrote. “I leave you in the very capable hands of /u/redpillschool. I have been talking with him over the past few weeks and he is more than prepared to continue taking the community in the same direction. So long, and thanks for a memorable experience.”

“Don't worry... I promise to fill the void!” RedPillSchool chimed in. “Pk and I are on the same page.”

Over time, some Red Pillers conflated the two aliases and referred to RedPillSchool as the forum’s founder. For example, pickup artist Daryush "Roosh V" Valizadeh introduced The Red Pill to his blog’s readers by writing, “The Red Pill subreddit was created by an anonymous individual who goes by the handle RedPillSchool.”

When “The Red Pill Sidebar” was published in 2015, a post that had been written by pk_atheist in November 2012 to introduce the forum was included -- but it was now attributed to RedPillSchool. RedPillSchool thanked the member who assembled the collection and he placed a copy on a Red Pill website “so it doesn't disappear one day.”

In that same discussion, RedPillSchool recounted a date he had with a women's studies major who was familiar with The Red Pill and “went on and on about how refreshing it was to go on a date with a guy who was nothing like that. … I told her that I created the forum and actually hated women. She laughed and ordered another round. I don't think people would believe me if I did go public. Lol”

RedPillSchool made an explicit effort to refrain from providing personal details that would threaten his anonymity. In 2013, though, he did confirm his age as “30 +- 2 years.” (Fisher was 28 at the time.) In a Guardian interview he also confirmed that he is “white, atheist [and] conservative” (though admittedly, that likely applies to most Red Pillers).

RedPillSchool does occasionally repeat the story that he inherited The Red Pill from its founder, pk_atheist. “The sub itself was handed over to me early on,” he wrote last year, “I had had a lot of long conversations with the founder who went on to bigger and better things and he trusted I would run the forum well.”

But in a Guardian interview, RedPillSchool changed his story and said that he was the creator of The Red Pill. In the unabridged version of the interview RedPillSchool posted online, he told the reporter that he had been moderating the subreddit “since the red pill's inception.”

RedPillSchool described the events that led him to create the site. “I got started when I stumbled upon a few manosphere blogs and realized there wasn't really a good forum for discussion on masculine topics,” he explained. “I noticed the attitude of women in the dating market was very negative, it was a terrible experience. So that led me to researching others' experiences which led me to the mansophere, and eventually theredpill.”

(The Guardian piece referred to RedSchoolPill as “Morpheus Manfred.” RedPillSchool explained: “A few years ago was my first big interview, it was BBC world News. I needed an email, quickly. So I made a GMAIL, and it needed a name, so I figured, let's try Morpheus. You know, for obvious reasons. They needed a last name though, so I just thought Manfred sounded kinda righteous. Didn't realize they'd read my ‘From’ line on the email and announce me as Morpheus Manfred on the air. Since then I just kept it for consistency's sake.”)

‘We are the Puerarchy’

As The Red Pill grew, RedPillSchool was instrumental in rolling out a series of Red Pill-related websites – all with a connection to Fisher.

The original administrator’s email address for each site was Fisher’s personal email address -- the same email address linked to his campaign website, his band website and included in Fisher’s letter of complaint to the PUC -- and are all hosted on servers in Orlando, Florida. (Fisher once told Redditors that he is “personally spending thousands of dollars to co-locate [computer servers] in places like Florida.”)

The websites include trp.red (email), a Red Pill-related social media platform; forums.red (email), an archive of the Reddit Red Pill subreddits; feministvictims.com (email), a fundraising site for “victims of feminism;” and puerarchy.com (email), RedPillSchool’s blog.

Puerarchy.com is also linked to Fisher through a Google Adsense account. The website shares a Google Adsense publisher ID with insideNH.com, a website authored by Fisher and Rep. Nick Zaricki (R-Goffstown) where the legislators discussed issues related to their work in the New Hampshire House. (The insideNH.com domain name expired last month and the site is now offline.) Ad revenue from the two sites is directed to the same user's account.

Puerarchy.com made its debut in the summer of 2013. The word “puerarchy” was coined by the author of The Manosphere: A New Hope For Masculinity, Ian Ironwood, to describe “the evolution of male values and masculine goals toward a more selfish, self-oriented and unashamedly masculine perspective.”

RedPillSchool embraced the notion as a battle cry: “We’re going to eat pizza. We’re going to play videogames. We’re going to look at porn. We’re going to fuck every bitch we can. And we’re never going to ‘grow up,’” he wrote. “Some of us may make brilliant amounts of money. But one thing’s for sure: what we do is for us- and we’re not going to share. … Honor is dead. Long live the Puerarchy.”

In addition to news and discussion, the site hosts an interactive, text-based game: Slut Quest. It’s a sendup of Depression Quest, the game by female game developer Zoe Quinn that was at the center of the Gamergate controversy. The Slut Quest storyline is a typical Red Pill trope: a woman who has sex with men to advance her career and threatens to accuse them of rape if they don’t accede to her demands. “Slutquest was my crowning achievement,” RedPillSchool wrote.

Feministvictims.com was launched in response to the Andria Richards controversy that resulted in a male tech employee losing his job after she overheard him making an off-color remark. A Huffington Post write-up included a quote from RedPillSchool explaining why he believed the new site was necessary. “Unfortunately in today’s climate, being a man has become a financial liability,” RedPillSchool wrote. “Say the wrong thing in the wrong place and you can find your entire life ruined. Destroyed.”

“Feminists have fought for equality, but now they’re out for our rights,” he continued. “They’re destroying us financially. They’re trying to tear apart our families. We’re saying that enough is enough. No longer should men fear masculinity.”

‘I won't deny that the language is colorful’

When interviewed by Guardian’s Stephen Marche about The Red Pill’s notorious reputation as a misogynistic cesspool, RedPillSchool said, “I won't deny that the language is colorful and there's a lot of emotion expressed by the men on the forum.”

“I would argue that the definition of misogyny isn't really very concrete, that much is labeled as such because it's inconvenient. So, let's say there's a guy who just says ‘well I hate women.’ I think that's textbook misogyny and, in fact, we let them say that,” he continued. Because there's nowhere else for a man to blow off steam. … The endgame of our advice isn't to hate women. It's to understand them so you can stop being so darn frustrated by them.”

“If a guy came on and talked about actually hurting women or plotting to harm them, we'd remove them and possibly contact authorities if there was any risk of an immediate threat,” he insisted. “But this is the one place where men have the freedom to throw around ideas, vent, and discuss openly with other men.”

RedPillSchool denied the forum promotes rape culture. “There's no discussion of rape strategies. It's antithetical to our entire purpose, which is to find a way to become attractive enough that women will want to be with us,” he said. “If the group was seriously pro-rape, there simply wouldn't be a discussion on building attraction. We'd just take 'em all by force.”

“There have been probably a handful of comments I've removed over the past three years,” he continued, “and they're usually one-offs by trolls who want to make the group look pro-rape. They're banned and removed, since that is strictly forbidden in our forum rules.”

On the other hand, RedPillSchool has endorsed the subject of rape as “a great marketing gimmick.” In a post summarizing the “Red Pill state of affairs” written last year, RedPillSchool praised pickup artist "Roosh V" for the attention garnered by his plans for an international meet-up that was condemned as a “make rape legal” rally by detractors. The American blogger is best known for a 2015 article in which he proposed legalizing rape – a piece he said was a “satirical thought experiment” and “not to be taken literally.”

“I really can't fault him for the play that he made,” RedPillSchool wrote. “Some clever statements about rape that could be played off with the plausible deniability of satire, but gaining international attention on the sound bites. He was able to scare feminists and women in every major city, convincing them that big, bad rapists were coming to town to meet, plot and fester in the underbellies of their streets.”

‘The wrath of vitriolic women’

RedPillSchool has apparently been keeping a close eye on the Fisher unmasking and the subsequent reactions. The day Fisher’s response to the Daily Beast article was published by the Laconia Daily Sun, RedPillSchool posted a link to it on a Red Pill-related site. “I just got sent this by somebody on [Reddit],” he wrote.

Saturday, he addressed the unmasking, referring to it as “the recent doxxing of an alleged redpill founder.”

“Knowing the truth and living by it was not enough to save that man from the wrath of vitriolic women,” RedPillSchool wrote. “He stands as a testament to what happens to men who stand alone: They get torn down. Had he not built his own support structure, it could have been the end of his career.”