New Film ‘The Red Pill’ Asks Whether Men’s Rights Activists Have a Point

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'Men’s rights activists, or “MRAs,” have long been among the progressive community’s favorite whipping boys — reviled, deplored and mocked as angry, whiny losers pining for their bygone privilege. Right now, they make especially convenient bogeymen in the ugly gender wars of Election 2016. A few days ago, a New York Times article on supposedly resurgent misogyny in American culture singled out the “manosphere” — the male-focused sector of the Internet that includes MRA websites — as a toxic swamp of woman-hating.

Yet at this very moment, a new documentary called The Red Pill takes a mostly sympathetic look at the dreaded MRAs — and it’s made by a woman who began the project as a committed feminist.

The Red Pill (the title, a popular manosphere term, refers to the reality-revealing pill in The Matrix) first sparked controversy a year ago. Filmmaker Cassie Jaye, then 29 and the author of acclaimed, award-winning documentaries on abstinence education and same-sex marriage, lost her potential producers and even some crew because they didn’t like where her new movie was going. After two years of work, the film was in jeopardy; rescue came from a Kickstarter fundraising effort led by men’s groups and by right-wing icon Milo Yiannopoulos. Jaye’s critics were not amused. Anti-MRA blogger David Futrelle accused her of throwing objectivity to the winds and “pandering” to her subjects.'