I’ll try to keep this as brief as possible but I could write pages about my experiences.

I was 21 years old and in college. Like any other healthy young man I was interested in women and wanted to attract them into my life. The problem was that I was socially awkward and nervous around girls. I would befriend them, hang out with them for months, and then finally ask them out only to get rejected or “friend zoned.” I had no idea what I was doing. After a series of rejections I grew angry and bitter. Why wouldn’t any girl date me? Why did I keep getting rejected? I needed answers.

I began to do research online and found the red pill. I quickly absorbed as much information as I could and began to be brainwashed by their dogma. “Women are hypergamous”, “modern women are whores not fit for marrying”, “don’t ever get married because you will get screwed over by the woman and the state”, “society caters to women and not men.”

Things really changed when I read a book called The Manipulated Man. I was emotionally vulnerable, hurt, and lonely and this book began to cement my already negative perception of the opposite sex. I had no role models and I needed someone, something to guide me. Women just use men, women are stupid while men are smart, women turn men into slaves. Women wear masks and don’t show their true selves, women don’t enjoy sex and just use it to get what they want. Women aren’t capable of feeling true love, only men are. I took everything I read as gospel.

I stopped talking to women for a while. I told myself I’d never get married or have a girlfriend. When I talked to women it would only be to try and manipulate or “game” them into sleeping with me (it never worked). I was angry and more isolated then ever before. I began to hate women, hate what they are. I generalized every single woman I came across. I really believed that all women were the way they were described in the Manipulated Man.

But you know what the most harmful thing was that I learned from the Red Pill? That the problem was with all women and not with me. I didn’t need to change, women didn’t like me because there was something wrong with women. Society is all fucked up not me. Women were privileged and got what they wanted, men were the ones who got screwed over.

Only years later did I realize how wrong The Red Pill was. How swearing off women and trying to manipulate them only hurt me and didn’t help me. How not all women are the same, not all women are hypergamous sluts that just use men for their selfish gain. How society wasn’t pitted against men. That being in a relationship with a woman can be a beautiful thing. How women can love just as men can love. That the problem was never with ALL women, but with me.

To other young men thinking of swallowing the red pill, I have some advice for you. I encourage you not to read TRP, but if you do; QUESTION everything you read. Not just for the red pill but for everything you read on the internet. Be careful about making generalizations. There are billions of women on the planet, do you really think all of them are the same? Lastly if you are having trouble with women, look inward before you try and blame all women for your failure. The problem most likely lies within yourself. If I can help just one man (who is emotionally vulnerable as I was) avoid being brainwashed by TRP, I will consider this post worthy of writing.