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The '''blackpill''' is a philosophy that argues that [[beauty|physical attractiveness]] is the most critical factor in determining [[men]]'s [[dating]] success, especially in modern Western countries.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vI92nJUjvjE</ref> A man's money, status, and social skills are argued to be other factors of secondary importance, which is known as [[LMS|LMS theory]]. An expanded or alternate definition proposes that a man's dating and life outcomes generally rely on [[Genetics|genetically]] determined traits.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20221015021050/https://incels.is/threads/whats-your-fundamental-definition-of-the-blackpill.125984/</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20221015021453/https://looksmax.org/threads/why-i-dont-believe-in-the-black-pill.517362/</ref>  

As a consequence of these beliefs, blackpillers often argue that men's dating issues require systematic rather than individual solutions, if there is any solution at all for the most disadvantaged males.<ref>https://dalrock.wordpress.com/2011/11/21/she-felt-unloved/#comment-22914</ref> Someone who holds a certain amount of blackpill beliefs is called a '''blackpiller''' or '''blackpilled'''.

The blackpill emerged in opposition to the [[redpill]] philosophy. Adherents of this movement, influenced by [[PUA|pick-up artistry]], generally promote [[work on yourself|self-improvement]] and various dating tricks as the solution for men's dating woes. The redpill also promotes an individualistic approach to dating that often blames [[Incel|incels]] and low-status men's attitudes for their lack of mating success. These differences in outlook frequently enable tensions between redpillers and blackpillers.

*Women care greatly about a male partner's height

*[[Rape|Forced sex]] is [[steeling effect|not so bad]] and [[Rape#Evolution|many women like it]], at least if the rapist is an attractive and/or high-status man. Popular BDSM themed porn aimed at women like "Fifty Shades of Grey" and the like are often cited in support of this position

'''Women bad'''

*Women are only capable of love in case of [[dominance hierarchy|high status]] men. Basically that women can only love conditionally, which most wouldn't consider 'love'

*Women will reject a man because he is a virgin, unless he is very attractive

*Women mostly have a horrible [[personality|character]], if any

*Women's [[fake depression|depression]] and loneliness are at best self-inflicted, at worst a means of getting attention. It is generally argued that women suffer less than men, as they live life on [[Life on tutorial mode|'easy mode']]

*Women love playing victims to get their way

*Women exhibit a [[dual mating]] strategy, where men who financially provide for them are often cuckolded by more masculine or attractive men

*Women are particularly shallow about the [[looks]] of men, and care as much, or more about looks in a romantic partner than men do

*Women's sexuality is more primitive than men's, who are argued to be the romantic gender, but they conceal this to receive investment from male partners. Some argue that they are stuck [[Life history|r-selected]] past as they have been subject to [[reproductive success|less]] selection pressure

*Men need sexual intimacy and [[romance|romantic]] intimacy

*[[Adverse effects of inceldom|Inceldom is harmful]]

*[[Polygamy]] in general is bad and always unworkable on a community level, as it creates incel men who are excluded from reproduction and sexuality

*Eliminating traditional gender roles destabilizes society through creating demotivated male incels, as women are claimed to 'ride the cock carousel' and engage in de facto polygynous arrangements with 'Chads' in contexts where they are free to select males and defer marriage

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'''Lowering women's status''': Women's [[hypergamy]] means that for each man there needs to be a woman of lower status. This implies, to reduce inceldom, women's status relative to men needs to be lowered in general. Not necessarily as far that all women are below men, but many in the manosphere do advocate for this.

'''Ignoring women and sex:''' Others believe a positive effect of taking the blackpill is that it liberates from false hope and from expending time and effort for what is, in essence, a futile goal. Taking the blackpill means acknowledgement unethical, shallow and unhealthy mannerisms in the dating scene or even wider cultural practices, such as [[narcissism]] and [[lookism]] (the [[halo effect]] and beauty-is-good stereotyping). Many blackpilled incels eventually complement or supplant the blackpill with the [[whitepill]]. Acceptance of the blackpill could literally mean adopting monk status and potentially joining a religious community that provides a sense of [[beloningness]] and status, or embracing one's singledom, freedom and independence ([[MGTOW]], monk mode<ref>https://illimitablemen.com/2014/04/13/monk-mode/</ref>).

For these blackpillers, the blackpill is mainly seen as a counterweight to the prevalent and bluepilled assumption that having a poor social and [[romance|romantic]] life is mostly [[Neoliberalism|one's own fault]] and/or a matter of cultivating a positive [[personality]]. It provides a basis whereby one can reject day-to-day [[platitude]] and the commonly fraudulent "[[work on yourself|self-improvement]]" advice that is ubiquitous in media, advertising and the [[redpill]].

The person who first formalized the blackpill, [[Paragon]], believed in [[biological essentialism]], which in modern times is generally linked to the political right. The first modern redpill/blackpill influenced incel boards anywhere were either founded or discussion-seeded by a self-described "neo-reactionary", who allowed the dicussion of violence on his forums, i.e. [[Caamib]]. He, however, rejected certain core ideas of the blackpill, namely lookism. His focus was on feminism as the sole cause of involuntarily celibacy. Reddit made it clear they would not tolerate that style of incel discussion, and so Braincels was populated next. Braincels was a previously dormant sub founded by an anarcho-communist named [[AnathematicAnarchist]]. The forum was not particularly traditionalist or [[alt-right]]. [[Braincels]] actively sought to minimize racism in their Reddit community before [[AnathematicAnarchist]] committed suicide, and they were largely hostile to the racialist aspects of the alt-right.<ref>http://redditsearch.io/?term=racism%20&dataviz=false&aggs=false&subreddits=braincels&searchtype=posts&search=true&start=0&end=1583051366&size=100</ref><ref>http://redditsearch.io/?term=alt-right&dataviz=false&aggs=false&subreddits=braincels&searchtype=posts&search=true&start=0&end=1583051401&size=100</ref>

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'''Too much focus on looks''': Superficial traits like looks, height, income, masculinity are at best weak predictors of sexual success as measured by e.g. partner count,<ref>https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-006-9075-x</ref><ref>https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1474704915604563</ref><ref>https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13504851.2011.587758</ref><ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill#Across_91_studies.2C_bodily_masculinity_was_predictive_of_men.27s_mating_and_reproductive_success</ref> with muscularity being the only consistent (but also weak) predictor of lifetime sexual success among a variety of superficial variables,<ref>https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.06.980896v3</ref> so looks are unlikely to explain most inceldom except for extremely physically unattractive individuals perhaps. Men are also seemingly bad at accurately judging their own looks.<ref>[https://doi.org/10.2307/3033724 http://doi.org/10.2307/3033724]</ref><ref>https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/sjop.12631</ref> However, looks ''do'' matter somewhat in terms of {{W|assortative mating}} as attractiveness ratings within couples (both short and long-term) are moderately correlated (r = .4), meaning very attractive people rarely mate with very unattractive ones.<ref>https://dor.org/10.1037/0033-2909.104.2.226</ref>