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*[[pink pill]]: female equivalent of the blackpill | *[[pink pill]]: female equivalent of the blackpill | ||
*[[whitepill]]: being stoic and ascetic | *[[whitepill]]: being stoic and ascetic | ||
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). | |||
==Purpose== | ==Purpose== | ||