Overall impression: This was an excellent documentary that everyone should watch. Very well done.
The creator, Cassie Jaye, admits she went into this with an agenda, and instead of pushing that agenda at all costs, you see snippets of her struggling to "cough up the red pill" as it were. She's forced to seriously rethink her position, and even when she tries to shut out what makes her uncomfortable, it gets through. And she admits this freely. She is definitely uncomfortable with seeing the realities that go against her perceptions, but she embraces that for the sake of growing as a person.
Rather than have an objective argument about the pros and cons of each side of the argument, Cassie lets them speak for themselves while she just listens, throwing in the occasional added question to get a bit more information. The viewer is allowed to make up their own mind, based on the words of the people she interviews.
I think that's why so many in the feminist camp are seething about this film. The MRA side comes across as rational, focused, and calmly delivers their message without any malice or attempt to strike back at feminists. They treat Cassie not as an enemy, but as an equal who has a different opinion, so they want to explain their side in the hopes of reaching a common ground. They appear to genuinely want to persuade people to see their point of view and come together to help everyone. And throughout the interviews, they are calm, articulate, well-spoken, and try to have an actual conversation about issues.
Virtually all of the feminists, on the other hand, are the complete opposite. They're shrill, smug, condescending, and dismissive. They speak as if anyone who disagrees is an ignorant child. "Big Red" is especially egregious. Even in a one-on-one interview with Cassie, she is arrogant, aggressive, quick to insult others and use profanity, and carries an air of smug entitlement about her (which is funny, given the clip where she calls one of the MRA's "Mister Entitlement"). As a whole, they come across as dogmatic, and use the same debunked arguments over and over, and stumble over their words as if they're completely incensed that someone would dare question their gospel.
And even if the dichotomy presented in the film were entirely the result of editing, the backlash against it just solidifies it even more. The incessant cries from the left of how terrible this film is, the attempts to ban it, the media smear campaign. All of it reeks of a group who doesn't want anyone questioning their carefully constructed narrative, lest it fall apart like a house of cards. When I searched for "The Red Pill banned", the first result was a Vice headline titled "Why Australian Men's Rights Activists Had Their Bullshit Documentary Banned" I'll let the title speak for itself...
All in all, this was an excellent film that I would recommend to anyone. The outrage and backlash against it do nothing but further prove the point Cassie Jaye is trying to make.
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[–] BentAxel 0 points 9 points 9 points (+9|-0) ago
Cassie Jaye is easy to look at.
[–] 9296925? 0 points 5 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago
Her great looks might be part of why she was brought back from the feminist brainwashing so easily: every one of the feminists always ranted at her that she was going to be sexually harassed by the rapists on the other side (in their minds, because the men in the M.R.A.s would only see her for her body and not for her mind), but instead, they basically all acted like classical gentlemen. When she started questioning that disconnect inbetween the feminist rhetoric and the standard behavior of Men's Rights Activists, she would be very likely to realize that the only people judging her more on her looks than her personality were the feminists, and they were keeping her near the bottom of their food chain because she was so much prettier than they all were.
[–] Wedhro 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
Yep. The worst enemy of irrational feminists is not the Man, it's women with a more than average sexual leverage. Look how bad they speak of pornstars, and those ain't even big players in the breeding "market".
[–] KikeStoleMyBike 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
Her original stance on men came from Hollywood, where they really only wanted her for her body.
Luckily she's smart enough to question the narrative, in the process of which she redpilled herself.
[–] ImBackBitches 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
She is. You kind of have to like chipmunks though.