This is what I'm gonna argue as being the true red pill.

What I mean is that romantic "love", in the way that it's marketed, does not exist at all. I'm not referring to The Notebook esque romance-- that's much more obviously a fantasy. The not-so-obvious fake love is the idea that a man and woman can enter a relationship and genuinely love someone for "who they are".

A popular RP narrative now is that men love unconditionally, and women love under the condition that they are provided for. I'd wager there's a bit more to it.

Women are only capable of "loving" men under the conditions that he is masculine and competent. Masculinity here would equate to mental strength, ability to stick up for oneself, relatively few outward displays of emotion, etc. Competency is just the ability to provide.

For a man to be capable of "loving" a woman, she must be a sexual prospect. They don't need to have ever had sex with the man, but as long as a man knows that there is a possibility that they'll one day have sex, he can "love" her.

In TRP theory, men's love is generally seen as more genuine, but in reality women just have a much easier standard to meet. This explains why men will orbit a woman for months or years without ever having sex with her-- because she's still a prospect.

If you somehow completely removed a woman's ability to give any level of sexual pleasure to men, men would be literally incapable of loving her. The more obvious flip side is that if you present a woman with a feminine, incompetent man, she cannot love him.

So... CMV