Hi RPW,

A major reason why r/redpillwomen was created is because there was almost no place on the internet where women who felt at odds with the direction that the feminist movement was going could speak their minds at the time. Because the goal of this sub was to have happy, healthy, and fulfilling relationships with men (which to us means male-led relationships), its founders recognized that feminism is very often at odds with that goal, as well as many other life goals that the women here tend to have regarding family, friendships, network, career, and more.

In the early days of RPW, there was a much more unified anti-feminist stance amongst the majority of the community. This not only allowed for more open discussions about why the feminism movement’s effects on modern society have disadvantaged women in various ways, but also let the women here know that it is okay to have doubts about the social conditioning that we are given as Western modern women. It was a red pill in and of itself, because it unplugged the women of this community from that social conditioning and gave them the freedom to form their own opinions and values that benefitted them, no matter how controversial and at odds with the rest of modern society.

Fast forward to today, and we have noticed that we are moving away from the origins of RPW and its intent on being an anti-feminist community. One of our maxims that our mods often repeat is that women from all walks of life are welcome here, whether you’re a chaste Christian girl raised to be traditional and conservative, or a full-time BDSM submissive in a kinky relationship with her life partner. We have no intent on changing this policy, and feminists are certainly allowed to read, participate, and engage here as much as anybody else. However, we’ve noticed a trend/behavior from our feminist users that goes against the core beliefs of our sub.

Whenever we get posts or comments from women recognizing the fact that they don’t agree or align with modern feminism, we inevitably get multiple feminist RPWs who chime in to defend “true feminism”. What results is that the anti-feminist women here in the anti-feminist community made for them have to defend their own beliefs against the same attacks that this community was meant to be a safe haven for. Their own personal and lived experiences with bad feminists are invalidated because the feminist participants here often insist that the idealistic version of feminism is not like that, not recognizing that that version is rarely what exists in practice.

This community has been and will always be anti-feminist. We allow feminists to participate here because we truly believe that ANY woman who wants to can gain something from this sub. To our feminist participants, please extend the same graciousness to the anti-feminist women here who this sub was explicitly made for. The women who are not feminists do not need to be questioned or challenged on their beliefs, or made out to be ignorant/uneducated/evil/bigoted, and do not need to explain themselves to anyone for holding the beliefs that they do.

Furthermore, please do not derail our threads with feminism and arguments for its validity. You are free to be a feminist and mention that you are a feminist here and how that affects your utilization of the RPW toolbox, but we do not need any proselytizing in the name of feminism here. That goes against the core values and origins of the sub and is unproductive for the community. Ultimately, the mods will be removing any comments and posts that defend feminism in a way that antagonizes our anti-feminist core.

Thank you!