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True Friends
an everyday ethics podcast where two true friends discuss the complexities of the everyday decisions we all have to make. From beauty standards to politics, we’re bringing you our hot takes on modern debates and arguing the way only true friends do.
Disclaimer: We acknowledge that we are two white women with our own experiences of identity and privilege and we recognize that this positionality gives us blind spots in these conversations. That being said, this is not a "both sides" podcast and you will never catch us debating human rights, defending billionaires, or justifying hate.
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True Friends
Episode 9: Am I getting red-pilled?
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Kate and EB discuss the "red-pill" phenomenon and what leads young men to fall down it. We look at research, online discourse, and examine our own opinions on the hard truths of this extreme misogyny and what we can do to fight it.
Sources:
- Red Pill Blue Pill Wikipedia Definition
- Chad Wikipedia Definition
- Men Who Hate Women from Incels to Pickup Artists: The Truth about Extreme Misogyny and How It Affects Us All (Bates, 2023)
- Men who hate women: The misogyny of involuntarily celibate men (Halpin, Preston, Gosse, Maguire, 2025)
- Guardian interview (2021)
- Take the Redpill: Understanding the Allure of Conspiratorial Thinking Among Proud Boys (Ktuner, 2020)
- Swallowing the Red Pill: a journey to the heart of modern misogyny (Marche, 2016)
- Swallowing and spitting out the red pill: young men, vulnerability, and radicalization pathways in the manosphere (Botto & Gottzén, 2023)
- Red Pill Women: Heterosexual Fantasies in Misogynistic Spaces (Hoebanx, 2024)
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