Q4ALL: People of PPD, what brings you to PPD? What's your story?

goatismycopilot · 2017-06-11T18:00:46+00:00

I went down a rabbit hole in 2013ish when someone on Twitter mentioned that weird "governments get girlfriends" guy. I started reading about incels which led me to discover the wider manosphere and eventually TRP. Later on I joined reddit and eventually found TBP and hung out there some. I honestly don't remember how I found PPD specifically but I'm guessing it was linked on TBP. Anyway I lurked here for a long time, then started posting and have been here for like two years now I think.

I really haven't found a community on Reddit I like as much as this one. It's active, the people are cool (even the ones on the other side), the topics are fun for the most part. Idk, it's an addictive place.

despisedlove2 · 2017-06-11T19:26:11+00:00

Found this after I got disgusted with TRP. Plus, I like arguing.

haleykohr · 2017-06-11T17:43:24+00:00

I read about TRP and PPD on yahoo answers so I came here.

wtknight · 2017-06-11T17:51:31+00:00

I find gender relations interesting, and especially debating the psychology of attraction and self-improvement, as I was once an incel myself and later a volcel.

i_have_a_semicolon · 2017-06-11T18:15:43+00:00

Hm, I'm not exactly sure how I stumbled upon this subreddit, but it's definitely not the quality of discussion that keeps me coming here, but rather the subject itself. As pathetic as that sounds, my life is so entirely devoid of intergender relations that this subreddit provides some sort of a fix, at least on some level. And reading about things you've never experienced is always interesting. Sort of like fiction literature, I guess.

i_have_a_semicolon · 2017-06-11T22:01:47+00:00

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[deleted] · 2017-06-12T01:38:33+00:00

Came to test my ideas against scrutiny.

Ended up learning how to shitpost instead when put up against shitposts, strawmen, poorly thought out shit, and individuals saying that they are the gold standard for 100% of their gender.

I'll stay for nudes

TheGreasyPole · 2017-06-11T17:57:59+00:00

I discovered Athol Kay's book MMSLP whilst looking around for something to improve my married situation.

In the course of discovering that I came across TRP/MRP on reddit and the rest of the manosphere via their sidebars.

I posted on MRP for a while, but posting in order to advise men wasn't really my thing ... I'd already been a political debate poster for about 20 years and so I was looking for something equivalent to that for RP, and found PPD.

So then I started posting here.... you lucky things....

WhiskersNT · 2017-06-11T19:47:13+00:00

I found this place by a TBP thread making fun of TRP

Turned out the subject had way more nuance than I understood at the time

[deleted] · 2017-06-11T21:52:49+00:00

I joined RPW in 2015. But I was pissing off all the members with my questions in IRC, so they directed me to PPD IRC and it's been lovely ever since. <3

HugMuffin · 2017-06-11T18:14:55+00:00

If even one person abandons the more harmful RP tactics, the world will be a better place.

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[deleted] · 2017-06-11T17:46:27+00:00

I found out about the blue pill through other websites and kinda stuck around because I both agreed with the criticism of the manosphere but also felt like I had some things in common with the men on there, especially the incels and forever aloners and such. I ended up here on PPD because I just love debating and discussing this shit.

[deleted] · 2017-06-11T19:47:01+00:00

After finding TRP and growing tired of the frequent circlejerking, I looked to see if there was a purple pill subreddit. There is, but it's too dead. This popped up in the search too and I stuck around.
Nothing really matches up. You get both of the two extremes, everything in between, and those don't who associate with anything on the spectrum, offering their opinions.

Lyanina · 2017-06-11T20:02:10+00:00

I stumbled on TRP somehow (maybe through /r/fitness). Then from there I pretty naturally stumbled on Blue Pill and Purple Pill. These stumblings just sort of naturally happen when you spend a lot of time on Reddit.

That's pretty much my "story" too. I don't even remember how I first came across TRP. I'm not sure it's the quality of discussion that keeps me here, but every so often I do come across something that I find interesting.

RockinSocksII · 2017-06-11T20:55:56+00:00

Found it through BP, have since abandoned that place. I like debate.
None that I know of, but would always be welcome to New subs.

NalkaNalka · 2017-06-11T21:20:56+00:00

Heard it mentioned in other manopshere places I frequent that reddit was a cesspool. Came to check it out. It is.

blackwater23 · 2017-06-11T22:05:53+00:00

Moderate RP looking to gain a broader understanding, argue, and refine my view

[deleted] · 2017-06-11T22:08:35+00:00

Arguing with people on the internet is fun and I like a lot of the people here. I don't even really care about the subject matter anymore honestly.

goatismycopilot · 2017-06-11T22:33:04+00:00

I don't really have a story, I find PPD entertaining. Once in a while somebody says something that really makes me think and I appreciate that.

ProbablyBelievesIt · 2017-06-11T23:32:29+00:00

My life was fucked up in ways that the redpill couldn't explain. So, I came here to make the most constructive possible use out of feeling like a disposable fuck toy.

It meant I was immune to the kind of dread game the redpill uses on men.

It's kind of hard to convince someone they're not going to get laid when they're already practically a whore, despite themselves. It might work on the desperate, but I was desperate in ways they'd never seen before.

I mean, really desperate.

This was the last place I should have been looking for advice on how to find true love.

But.

It was such a bad idea, that morbid fascination kicked in, and soon I was curious just how bad the advice here could get. It still wouldn't have kept me, but some really good minds do post here, when they're not shitposting at each other. And there was the chat, whenever the bullshit got too thick, and I needed to be reminded that actual people are behind the usernames.

i_have_a_semicolon · 2017-06-12T00:44:49+00:00

Im always here for a different reason . Sometimes it's intellectual debate, sometimes it's proving myself. Sometimes it's just to see what others think. I don't really know , except that red pill changed my Outlook on life and I'm sick of the very politically correct garbage that exists elsewhere. I support men and feel bad some men are treated badly by women and everyone always takes a woman's side in everything and I think it's kinda bullshit.

Edit : discovered theredpill 4 years ago with the random subreddit button on a lonely college night. Found the rest of the sphere. Purplepilldebate is like my "home" on Reddit.

thisno · 2017-06-12T01:08:18+00:00

The redpill is about accepting what women are. They accept that women will lie about everything if it is in their best interest. Do men lie yes, but research shows that women lie more. Women will lie about their number count, who they were with, who the father is, hell they will even lie to themselves. They accept that women's love is weaker and only temporary. They accept women are amoral. They accept this and still see themselves with women. So I stopped going because I didn't need the advice on how to get women.

I don't see myself with a person who is like that. No thanks I value honesty and true love. I want a partner not someone who will make me do all the effort. You cannot trust women these days. Relationships, love and sex have no value to them. But I do agree with the redpill it is not their fault. I accept women for who they are and made a conscious decision to nope the living fuck out of imbalanced, emotional damaging dating scene.

I came across /purplepilldebate. lurked for months but one day I came across a thread and I just could stand by and read the bluepiller lying. So made an account and replied. This place is getting kinda now tho tbh. The bluepillers just flat out deny the truth, it is like talking to trump supporter.

IIHotelYorba · 2017-06-12T01:19:42+00:00

TRP and PUA are very similar. You could say I'm red pill but my ideas constantly change. The most consistent things I've seen are effectively in the direction of "red pill."

Generally, people tend to think PUA is evil for the same reasons they think RP is evil. In execution PUA type ideas are so simple they sound really disappointing. Very few people talk about these ideas outside of their respective communities, which is sad because as you can see from the incel, foreveralone, hapa, meirl, etc boards people could really use an upgrade in their love life and friendships.

Kralee · 2017-06-12T01:39:50+00:00

MGTOW subreddit got a bit too complainy/stubborn/misogynistic for my likes.
I stumbled across PPD fact checking a guy, read some threads; liked the discussion and thought to myself " you know, I should really listen to the blue pill/feminist side more and give them a chance". So far I haven't been disappointed and the discussions have been pretty good IMO and I've learned alot.

SeemedGood · 2017-06-12T15:52:22+00:00

Wanted to get women's take on the Excrement Extravaganza that is modern intersexual dynamics.
It's interesting enough I suppose. Lots of impressionable younglings hanging about with less critique of the demagoguery that that gets passed off as education these days than one would hope - but there are certainly some interesting folks here too.

Merger-Arbitrage · 2017-06-12T17:44:54+00:00

A friend of mine gave me Neil Strauss's "The Game" to read in 2008 - said it was "interesting". I "PUAd" around for a few months for entertainment purposes and then realized that the routines/techniques weren't really improving my chances of attracting women. Active effort was making the difference. Nevertheless, at that time I did get acquainted with the cesspool known at the Manosphere and well, it clearly hasn't gone away since I decided to check-in in late 2016. PPD is interesting because its a rare intersection of Manospherian guys and 'normal' people. Basically, I'm here for what turns out to be 80% entertainment, with the remaining 20% offering info/knowledge when asked or relevant and maybe learning something new.

cxj · 2017-06-12T18:13:11+00:00

Was falsely accused of DV (told the story many times here on Reddit) and was frantically googling for answers. Found the manosphere and then TRP and then ppd.

slavicgypsygirl · 2017-06-12T18:14:34+00:00

I came to this sub through another persons really interesting post history.

I don't identify as any pill.

I just like some of the questions, discussions and opinions here.

Five_Decades · 2017-06-13T00:55:17+00:00

Went to TRP, liked it but I kept running into red flags that made me feel I was only getting part of the story, and that TRP was giving info that was appealing to dysfunctional women (I wasn't interested in women like that). Plus it was an echo chamber.

Since there is no TBP (just a forum of sarcastic emos) I figured I'd try PPD to get some info that was more centrist.

IHeartDay9 · 2017-06-13T04:23:42+00:00

Prolly ended up here from rubbernecking on incels or trp. Am now convinced that I'm some special snowflake unicorn, since I identify with all of 2% of the shit that my assigned gender is supposed to.

aznphenix · 2017-06-13T05:12:36+00:00

Wandered over here from FeMRAdebates on the recommendation of Xemnas a long time ago. I'm no longer all that active over there anymore (though it was good for a while). Mostly subbed to hobby subs and discussion boards, which are going to be pretty different from a debate sub.

[deleted] · 2017-06-15T06:45:59+00:00

I found PPD through r/TBP a few years ago (back when I was still a blue piller, lol). I have a thing for arguing, so I stuck around, and the rest is history.
I quite enjoy r/Christianity. Obviously very different subject matter, but we can get some pretty good debates going there as well.

[deleted] · 2017-06-11T18:12:38+00:00

I wanted to find out why I seem to attract the most BPD/histrionic of women.

Princeso_Bubblegum · 2017-06-12T01:45:23+00:00

I started arguing with TERFs and figured I'd need to balance it the other way by arguing with misogynists here.

IckyStickyPoo · 2017-06-11T22:40:17+00:00

i found the red pill first and was gobsmacked that men could get most things so wrong about how women think. Am still gobsmacked. I have theories about who red pillers are, and those theories keep getting proved to me, which is where I think my interest lies.

They seem to have a large proportion of people either on the spectrum or have a brain makeup common with people on the spectrum. They focus on some messages when growing up while being unable to see the world as a whole. They are systemisers who are easily swayed by easy solutions presented by flimsy systems, as long as it matches with their own personal experiences. Those not on the spectrum seem to be people who have a deep desire to submit to an ideology and are also highly likely to place blame outside of themselves. Submission is a powerful thing - as well known to cults.

So yeah, those things keep me interested.

Title	Q4ALL: People of PPD, what brings you to PPD? What's your story?
Author	HopefulAboutADHD
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Date	June 11, 2017 5:39 PM UTC (9 years ago)
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