My Child Was Being ‘Red Pilled’ – Here’s How I Found Out
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A mum has opened up about how she spotted the signs her son was being “red pilled” in the hope it will help other parents be vigilant about the subtle radicalisation of young children online.
For the uninitiated, the term “red pill” – which was mentioned in Netflix’s TV hit, Adolescence – has been adopted by certain groups (especially men’s rights groups) to refer to “waking up to the truth”.
In this context, red-pilling means “embracing the idea that men’s unhappiness and lack of sexual success is the fault of women and feminists”, according to Britannica.
TikTok creator @rchlprkr said she was having a conversation with her then 11-year-old son when he responded: “Well, women are gold diggers anyway.”
When the single mum pushed her child on which women he meant, she said her son replied: “Just women in general.”
The conversation progressed and she asked her son to name a woman in their life who was a gold digger, which he couldn’t.
He then showed her a video he’d seen which had inspired him to make the remark – at which point, the mum calmly prompted him to think critically about what he saw in front of him and to question it.
Off the back of the video, other parents shared the red flags that had prompted deeper conversations around red pill content with their kids.
One said: “My kid said ‘woke’ as a insult in tone. We had a 3 hr conversation about red pill last night.”
Another revealed: “I saw the very initial signs with my youngest (14) when he started referring to women as ‘females’.”
The Netflix TV show Adolescence recently touched on terms such as “the red pill” and “manosphere”, which has sparked conversations around how young boys are finding this content online and being sucked in by it.
In the four-part series, we discover that 13-year-old Jamie – who was accused of killing his classmate Katie – was likely indoctrinated online by misogynistic groups.
We also learn that Katie had been sharing certain emojis on his Instagram alluding to him being an incel. The term stands for involuntary celibate and refers to men who describe being unable to attract a romantic or sexual partner, and tend to blame women as a result.
Research by the University of York found most primary and secondary school teachers are “extremely concerned” about the influence of the manosphere – a collection of websites and forums that promote masculinity, and increasingly, misogyny – on children and young people.
Content retrieved from: https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/how-to-know-child-is-being-red-pilled_uk_67e2aed6e4b0210f1ba781f1.
