New blog post: Taking the Red Pill: Conspiracy Theories, Gender, and the “Elusive Epistemologies” of the “Manosphere”

In this IFJP article, the authors analyze the gender politics of the anti-feminist “red pill” or Matrix conspiracy theory. EBased on a discourse analysis of a representative sample of red pill communities’ YouTube videos, they find that the Matrix conspiracy theory serves to entrench hierarchical differentiations between masculinities, reproduce narratives of aggrieved sexual entitlement against “feminist oppression,” and advocate for a violent “return” to a more “traditional” gendered, sexual, and racial order.

Read the blog here.