There have been a few of them lately, posts that ask "What does men's rights think of fill-in-the-blank?" A few times in the last month, that blank has been filled in with "/r/TheRedPill."

To begin with, this is /r/mensrights. /r/TheRedPill is /r/TheRedPill. What we think of them as a group is irrelevant at best, and that opinion is certainly not the business of anyone else to attempt to manipulate, but that's exactly what asking this sub that question is about.

Don't mistake posts like that for genuine concern or consideration. That kind of troll does not care about any MRA's existing thoughts on that sub, or the ideas expressed there. It's not an effort to assess or find common ground. It's an effort to pit one group focused on men's issues against another group focused on men's issues, and an effort to use shaming of one group to police another.

"Don't be like those guys - they say unpopular things. People won't like you if you say unpopular things."

It's classic pre-teen girl-pecking-order-establishment-style gossip mongering, intended to damage two rivals with one targeted attack by instilling in the addressed group both a sense of self-doubt, and a manipulated, biased opinion of the discussed group. This is a way to condition the addressed group to adopt or shy away from characteristics, behaviors, or thoughts and opinions based on the "queen bee's" preferences. In middle school, queen bee girls use that to sour all of the girls in their social group against the girl they've decided they want at the bottom of the pecking order, and to establish themselves as arbiters of who belongs and who does not, and how people who belong act or do not act. Trolls asking "what does men's rights think of..." are doing exactly the same thing - prompting you to scramble to win kudos for stating the opinion they want to encourage, or to shy away from discussion they do not approve.

Bottom line: The two subs aren't responsible for each other, beholden to each other, or in any other way joined at the hip. It matters not a whit what MR thinks of TRP, or what TRP thinks of MR. TRP will continue to exist regardless, and so will MR. Don't let concern trolls create a rivalry between us that doesn't need to exist. Focusing on that will only distract from discussion on actual issues.