red pill

Meanings

1. Something that, in the view of the speaker or writer, enables or compels a person to overcome illusion and perceive harsher reality.
2. Something that causes someone to believe in gynocentrism in modern society.
3. The subculture of men who share a belief in the gynocentrism of modern society; manosphere.
4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see red, pill.

1. To enable a person to overcome (what the speaker or writer believes to be) illusion and thus to perceive harsher reality.
2. To cause someone to believe in gynocentrism in modern society.

Etymology

From a scene in the film The Matrix (1999), where the main character, who lives in a virtual world known as the Matrix, is given a choice between a red pill that will allow him to learn the truth about the Matrix and a blue pill that will return him to his simulated life.