I’ve been noticing an uptick in comments bemoaning or worrying about things which are a detriment to men in general, or demographic trends, or even society as a whole. Maybe #metoo, maybe unjust laws, maybe workplace discrimination beginning to scare you? Make one of these comments? Feeling the same way? Read on:

It seems you, like many people, have discovered the limits of TRP philosophy. Note that I say limits instead of flaws. TRP is a philosophy of sexual strategy for men in a woman-dominated society. To that end it is both selfish and occasionally surreptitious. That is not a negative thing; TRP is also amoral (not immoral).

Now that said, this is a limitation of scope because we often encounter men here bringing up what TRP is not.

  • TRP is not meant to benefit society at large, your race, your country, men only, or anyone but yourself. There is camaraderie here, but man is not your ally because he too is man. It is accepted in the origins of TRP that society is in decline; we do not wish to stop or reverse this, just exploit it for our own enjoyment.

  • TRP is not out to affect broad social change for your benefit. For the benefit of you and you alone, it is unlikely anything will be accomplished by championing a cause. Unless you want to become a martyr, you’re not going to do much by trying to fight false accusations or discriminatory sentencing out of the system. TRP espouses keeping your head down.


There are other related manosphere movements which overlap or frequently reference TRP enough that the confusion is understandable:

  • There’s Men Going Their Own Way (MGTOW) which advocates checking out of the sexual marketplace and improving yourself for yourself alone. The self-improvement is common to TRP, even down to not improving yourself just to get women, but the difference is that at the end of the day a Redpill man will use his gains to game, and will not be so risk averse with women. Risk aversion out of fear of #metoo is MGTOW.

  • Men’s Rights Advocacy (MRA) is about pointing out and fighting systemic discrimination against men. Duluth Model, child support, alimony, disparity in sentencing, paternity determination, Title IX kangaroo courts, and the like belong there. TRP does espouse awareness of such hazards, but not fighting them openly. There’s a reason MRA philosophy is maligned as an anti-woman circlejerk (other than bluepill conditioning): they make little progress, and end up ranting about the issues to no avail.

  • There is also Pickup Artistry (PUA), a largely outmoded predecessor to TRP. It was all about the game and frame, with no real drive for self-improvement. Some of the common terms and beliefs of TRP did come from PUA a long time ago though. Anything left of it is largely scams to the tune of “get women quick”, though it was always largely such scams in the first place.

Hopefully this clears things up; believe what you choose, work for what you choose, but remember that a particular discipline has its own purpose. If ‘taking the red pill’ began here for you, but you instead wish to fix society or just don’t want to pick up women at all, I wish you the best. That is just not the focus here.