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For more information on the science cited by blackpillers, see the '''[[Scientific Blackpill]]''' article. | For more information on the science cited by blackpillers, see the '''[[Scientific Blackpill]]''' article. | ||
== | ==Meanings of the blackpill== | ||
In the [[manosphere]], the blackpill and the [[redpill]] largely overlap, but they disagree in one point: The redpill concludes men can leverage knowledge about female sexuality to improve themselves, e.g. by bodybuilding and pickup artistry, whereas the blackpill concludes that for many men self-improvement is futile in today's cultural and economic circumstances. Blackpillers believe there are factors that are mostly [[determinism|pre-determined]], i.e. outside of men's own influence, but that play a vastly underappreciated role in female mate choice. The main factors are: | |||
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This triad, called ''LMS'', was | This triad, called ''LMS'', was popularized in non-pill-ideological [[PSL|PSL forums]] in response to the self-improvement enthusiasm of [[redpill|redpillers]] and [[pickup artists]]. | ||
A ''blackpill'' can also refer to a hopeless insight, or a political argument about how only traditionalism can solve dating problems. | |||
Those who self-identify as "blackpilled" mostly believe that feminism, technology, modernity have unleashed female sexuality and created a shallow and [[lookism|lookist]] dating sphere. Blackpillers "spread the blackpill" with the intention to demotivate other men from looking for personal solutions and encourage them to consider to societal problems. "The blackpill becoming widespread" also means the negative dating situations becoming more ubiquitous in society.<ref>https://incels.co/threads/lets-just-say-blackpill-become-widespread-so-no-more-cucks-just-incels-and-chads.146035/</ref> Some blackpillers expect this to spark a revolution.<ref>https://incels.co/threads/lets-just-say-blackpill-become-widespread-so-no-more-cucks-just-incels-and-chads.146035/#post-3066523</ref> | |||
Many aspects of the blackpill are based on science and not new to academia at all, in fact, they often draw from on scientific consensus that predates the prevalent feminist monoculture in the social sciences. | |||
Blackpill ideology consists of the following central themes, most of which are related to one of more factors of the LMS triad. | Blackpill ideology consists of the following central themes, most of which are related to one of more factors of the LMS triad. | ||