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Prominent Federal Labor MPs have called on the Government to deny a visa to Gavin McInnes, the founder of the controversial white male supremacist organisation, The Proud Boys, who is due to visit Australia in November, to remind dorky kids with preppy haircuts that they too matter. Even if their dad left the family during his formative years.
“Proud Boys” is a far-right organisation which admits only men as members and promotes political violence,” the letter reads.
However, while the leader of well-dressed sect of Men Rights activism appears to be still able to visit Australia from his home in America, which is usually the place where these obscure political movements form – the edgier, less sexually active movement of the ‘red pillers’ appears to be growing by the day in our country.
The red-pillers, who believe men are being emasculated by the concept of equality that has seen women progress past them based on merit, while still favouring women when it comes to custody battles and victim statements.
The name refers to a scene in the film The Matrix, in which the protagonist is offered the choice of a red pill, representing truth and self-knowledge, or a blue pill representing a return to blissful ignorance. By analogy it seeks to bring awareness to the contrast between men’s rights and what they perceive as favouritism to women.
“It actually shouldn’t be a surprise that this movement is made up of nerds” says Professor Lote Meninga, from the Anthropological Department of Western QLD University.
“Like, for men who have never, ever had sex, and will likely never have sex.. They seem weirdly obsessed with the family courts”
