#Red pill or blue pill matrix software#

The film was hotly debated, with journalist Cathy Young reviewing it favorably and praising its critiques of modern feminism, while Alan Scherstuhl of the Houston Press referred to Jaye as a 'propagandist' and the film as 'amateurish'. Through the course of the film, Jaye begins to question her feminist beliefs and judgement of the men's rights movement. In the film, Jaye interviews both feminists and men's rights activists (MRAs) in her investigation of MRAs as a hate movement. On October 7th, 2016, the film premiered at the Cinema Village in New York City, New York. By November 11th, the campaign raised more than $211,000 of its $97,000 goal. On October 12th, 2015, filmmaker Cassie Jaye launched a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter to fund a documentary titled The Red Pill: A feminist's journey into the Men's Rights Movement. On October 25th, 2012, Redditor RedPillSchool launched the subreddit TheRedPill, which has accrued nearly 144,000 subscribers, as of March 2016. Sometime between the late 2000s and early 2010s, the term 'red pill' became prominently adopted by advocates of the men's rights movement and subscribers of the manosphere as a metaphor for the supposed epiphany of gender inequiality against men, or beliefs that contemporary social values and gender role expetations are intended to benefit women more than men.

#Red pill or blue pill matrix software#

On August 3rd, 2006, Polish computer scientist Joanna Rutkowska unveiled the 'Blue Pill' rootkit, a special type of software that utilizes techniques of modern CPUs to render a virtual platform on which the entire operating system (OS) runs, as well as 'Red Pill' techniques that allows the OS to detect the presence of such virtual platform.In the article, Tierney draws a comparison between taking the 'red pill' and recognizing that the Bush administration's post 9/11 policies haven't made the nation safer, and particularly in the context of emergency response to the devastating effects of Hurricane Katrina. On June 11th, 2006, the Social Science Research Council ran an article titled 'The Red Pill' by University of Colorado's sociology professor Kathleen Tierney.In November 2005, Greg Taylor launched The Red Pill, an alternative Wikipedia project designed to 'catalogue all of those things on the stranger side of reality,' including many topics that had been rejected by Wikipedia due to their fringe subject matters.On October 29th, 2004, Urban Dictionary user Ironuckles submitted an entry for 'Red Pill,' describing the term as 'a popular phrase among cyberculture and signifies a free-thinking attitude, and a waking up from a 'normal' life of sloth and ignorance.' As of March 2016, the entry remains the most upvoted definition of the term.(Neo takes the red pill and swallows it with a glass of water) (Long pause Neo begins to reach for the red pill) Remember - all I am offering is the truth, nothing more. (a red pill is shown in his other hand) You take the red pill and you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes. You wake in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. Morpheus: You take the blue pill and the story ends. (In his left hand, Morpheus shows a blue pill.) (long pause, sighs) Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrix is. Like everyone else, you were born into bondage, born inside a prison that you cannot smell, taste, or touch. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth. You can feel it when you go to work, or when go to church or when you pay your taxes. You can see it when you look out your window, or when you turn on your television. Morpheus: The Matrix is everywhere, it is all around us. The science-fictional concepts of the 'red pill' and the 'blue pill' originate from the 1999 science fiction film The Matrix, wherein the main protagonist Neo (portrayed by Keanu Reeves) is offered to take either a blue-colored pill or a red-colored pill, the former of which would allow him to remain in the simulated universe within 'The Matrix' and enjoy the comforts of life in ignorance, while the latter would lead him to escape from the fabricated reality into the physical realm that is harsher and more challenging in nature.