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== Origin of the term == | == Origin of the term == | ||
The term blackpill was first used in 2011 by a blog commenter named ''Paragon'' on the Dalrock anti-[[feminist]] blog and later adopted by [[Omega Virgin Revolt|OmegaVirginRevolt's blog]]. Paragon said only mass poverty could solve men's systemic [[dating]] issues, as he saw that as the only mechanism that could bind women to men. | The term blackpill was first used in 2011 by a blog commenter named ''Paragon'' on the Dalrock anti-[[feminist]] blog and later adopted by [[Omega Virgin Revolt|OmegaVirginRevolt's blog]]. Paragon said only mass poverty could solve men's systemic [[dating]] issues, as he saw that as the only mechanism that could bind women to men. Modern blackpillers agree that female desire in inflexible, but believe in mechanisms such as promiscuity-shaming could be used instead of poverty, to bind individual women to individual men. Facing [[dating]] difficulties in Canada, Paragon moved from Canada to the Philippines, a less prosperous country than Canada, and married there. In Paragon's own words:<ref name="ref208"></ref> | ||
{{Quote|[…] to reconcile that there are no personal solutions to systemic problems—which can only resolve over evolutionary time. | {{Quote|[…] to reconcile that there are no personal solutions to systemic problems—which can only resolve over evolutionary time. | ||