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Blackpills often mean that "[[it's over]]" for incels with poor looks and low [[social status]] or other flaws—that is, that they have next to no chance of '[[ascension|ascending]]' or attaining sexual and social fulfillment. The blackpill gave rise to various spin-offs with varying degrees of seriousness, for instance, the '[[dogpill]].'
Blackpills often mean that "[[it's over]]" for incels with poor looks and low [[social status]] or other flaws—that is, that they have next to no chance of '[[ascension|ascending]]' or attaining sexual and social fulfillment. The blackpill gave rise to various spin-offs with varying degrees of seriousness, for instance, the '[[dogpill]].'
==Comparison to bluepill and redpill==
Outside of the [[manosphere]], the red, blue and black pills are used for other things than just dating. The [[bluepill|blue pill]] generally refers to the denial of uncomfortable truths, the [[redpill|red pill]] refers to the revelation of an uncomfortable truth (as an analogy to the film The Matrix), and the black pill refers to uncomfortable truths that either nothing can be done about or it would require changes difficult to attain, e.g. large-scale cultural changes. The term ''blackpill'' was presumably first used by a blog commenter named ''Paragon'' (see the [[#First use of the term blackpill|section]] below). Within the [[manosphere]], the three pills are more narrowly concerned with social and romantic life, and they represent different tribes or ideologies with differing views on issues like the importance of looks in dating. The three ideologies can be summarized as follows (adapted from the BlackPillScience subreddit<ref>https://reddit.com/r/blackpillscience</ref>):
{| class="wikitable" style="display: inline-table;"
! Pill theory
! Accepts uncomfortable truths?
! [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locus_of_control Locus of control]
|-
| [[Bluepill]]
| No
| Internal
|-
| [[Redpill]]
| Yes
| Internal
|-
| '''Blackpill'''
| '''Yes'''
| '''External'''
|}
Both the redpill and blackpill acknowledge the importance of [[LMS]] for dating, but the redpill claims that one can leverage this knowledge for one's social and romantic success (internal locus of control), whereas the blackpill assumes that for some men there is no help without changing the conditions of mating altogether (external locus of control). The blackpill can be seen as a counterweight to the prevalent and bluepilled assumption that having a poor social and romantic life is mostly [[Neoliberalism|one's own fault]]. It provides an basis whereby one can reject the barrage of "self-improvement" advice that is ubiquitous in media, advertising and in day-to-day [[platitude]] and [[virtue signaling]].
''SubsaharanAmerican'', the founder of [https://old.reddit.com/r/BlackPillScience /r/BlackPillScience], a forum dedicated to studying the blackpill, defined the "black pill" as follows:
<blockquote>''It is popularly claimed that some of the more immutable traits, such as facial physical attractiveness, height and visually discernible race/ethnicity, play a comparatively minor role in animating social and sexual exclusion. [...] Blackpill Theory of Sexual Attraction [is] the idea that mate preferences in WEIRD societies are primarily guided by lookism, tribalism and, for heterosexual women, heightism. This is generally paired with the recognition that, for some individuals, the relationship between the amount of goal-directed effort expended in order to attract and court preferred mates (either by oft-touted self-help methods or by "one weird trick" courtship techniques) and one's success rate may be so poorly correlated that, for these individuals, such narrowly targeted effort is naive at best.''</blockquote>


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