Os segredos da pílula vermelha: machismo e imaginação reacionária na internet

The “red pill” movement became instantly notorious thanks to a recent episode of public debate on the Internet between the comedian Livia La Gatto and coach Thiago Schultz. Departing from this incident, the goal of this work is to analyze the origins and mythologemes of red pill “philosophy”, showing that it belongs to a wider neoconservative imaginary, characterized by microfascist notions and practices and by a singular conception of temporality, distended between the remotest past and the most advanced technological future.