[March 3, 2024] I first became aware of Cassie Jaye several years ago on a TEDx Talk (link here), where she described her time “meeting the enemy.” As a self-described proud feminist and a documentary filmmaker, she decided to find and document what she thought was the misogynistic men’s movement. It was 2013, and she wanted to go and “expose the dark underbelly of the men’s rights movement.” The result, The Red Pill film.
She had read that the MRM was a women’s hate group that actively worked against women’s equality. Her earlier work had been about women’s issues (reproductive rights, single motherhood, getting more girls into STEM fields), so this fits nicely into her documentary skills. So, she decided to proceed with interviews because no one had done it before.
“So, for one year, I traveled North America, meeting the leaders and followers of the men’s rights movement. There’s an important rule in documentary filmmaking. As an interview, you do not interrupt. And in the moment, I didn’t realize it, but now, looking back, I can see that while I was conducting my interviews, I wasn’t actually listening.”
This is a rare admission and one that makes this TEDx talk important. It means hearing what people say, listening closely, and understanding what they say.
“In those moments of sitting across from my enemy, I wasn’t listening. What was I doing? I was anticipating. I was waiting to hear a sentence, or even just a couple of words in succession, that proved what I wanted to believe: that I had found the misogynist, the ground zero of the war on women.”
Fortunately, she sat quietly, listening to these men talk and explain the men’s rights movement. While reviewing the many hours of filmed interviews, replaying and transcribing them, she realized that her first impressions weren’t warranted.
While making The Red Pill movie, she kept a video diary that tracked her evolving views; there was a common theme. She would hear an innocent, valid point that men would make, but in her head, she would put a sexist or anti-woman spin, assuming that is what the men wanted to say but didn’t.
“I eventually realized what they are saying is that they are trying to add to the gender equality discussion, who is standing up for the goo-hearted, honorable man that loses his scholarship, his job, or worse yet, his children because he is accused of something he absolutely did not do?”
The light bulb comes on. She realized that there are real men’s issues and not everything revolves around women’s issues and who are the real victims.
“Before making The Red Pill movie, I was a feminist of about ten years, and I thought I was well-versed on gender equality issues. But it wasn’t until I met men’s rights activists that I finally started to consider the other side of the gender equality equation.”
In October 2016, she released her film in movie theaters. Film reviews, articles, and commentary rolled in. That is when she experienced how engaged the media is in group think around gender politics, learning a difficult lesson.
“When you start to humanize your enemy, you, in turn, may be dehumanized by your community. And that’s what happened to me. Rather than debating the merit of the issues addressed in the film, I became the target of a smear campaign, and people who had never seen the movie protested outside the theater doors, chanting that it was harmful to women.”
Cassie Jaye realized that “her community” was acting just like her before she made the film. Her greatest challenge was peeling back the layers of her own bias. She no longer identifies as a feminist. She is not anti-woman or anti-man but concerns herself with gender issues holding back both women and men.
She acknowledges that men’s groups are still vilified and called hate groups and systematically silenced.
In the end, she gives us some advice.
“We have to stop expecting to be offended, and we have to start truly, openly, and sincerely listening. That is what will lead to a great understanding of ourselves and others, having compassion for one another, working together towards solutions because we all are in this together. It starts with listening.”
Cassie Jaye has come to the realization that pitting one sex against the other is unwise. She will later realize that her goal of “gender equality” is equally unsustainable but that we all have roles to fulfill properly and ethically.
You can watch the entire documentary free of charge on YouTube (link here, video 1:57:46 minutes). Highly recommended.
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At this point, I want to link to the prison choir song, those who were falsely jailed and are hostages of our current government. The song topped the iTunes chart. Listen here.
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“We have to stop expecting to be offended, and we have to start truly, openly, and sincerely listening. That is what will lead to a great understanding of ourselves and others, having compassion for one another, working together towards solutions because we all are in this together. It starts with listening.” I love this part of the article
ACTIVE Listen is a tool we must use to effectively learn from each other point of view
A classic. But note that the “progressives” hate it.
“https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/02/movies/red-pill-review-tonya-pinkins.html” Note you can get around the paywall, just search for how to get around paywalls to read this idiot review of the Red Pill film.
Notice that under Rotten Tomatoes, a site that rates movies, they give it a 29% score. But the audience gives it a 92% score. This is what happens when wokeness takes over the brains of the movie industry. They just can’t accept that they are totally disconnected from the world and rather wallow in their mental illness.
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_red_pill_2016
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 LOL
Gen. Satterfield, as you know I’m new to your blog and these articles hit home. My cousin was a nut until he started looking into the foundation of liberalism and neo-Marxism; those ideas he liked. The more he read, the less he liked them. Now he is Red Pilled and loving it. I’ll recommend this documentary to him.
Good to have you with us Welling McBeth.
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Cassie Jaye, classy lady.
She has a YouTube account here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCW0XocdjHAzMJmTQIboO8qw
New subscriber here.
Your work is outstanding, sir.
“Before making The Red Pill movie, I was a feminist of about ten years, and I thought I was well-versed on gender equality issues. But it wasn’t until I met men’s rights activists that I finally started to consider the other side of the gender equality equation.” — Cassie Jaye
Yep, let’s hope she has fully awoken from the woke, feminist toxic ideology that she perpetuated earlier in her life.
Indeed, YES! ❤
Another great article … makes the think.
Good add, Gen. Satterfield now including the Jan 6th political prisoner singing the National Anthem.
“At this point, I want to link to the prison choir song, those who were falsely jailed and are hostages of our current government. The song topped the iTunes chart. Listen here.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7MkSpJk5tM
More of us should listen to it. If it makes you made that Joe Biden is keeping political prisoners, then it shows you are a patriot.
I just noticed in the “about author” section below each article, Gen. Satterfield writes that he is “influenced by great thinkers such as Friedrich Nietzsche, Karl Jung, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Jean Piaget, Erich Neumann, and Jordan Peterson.” Sir, well done. 👀👀👀👀👀
All good men of great intellect. If you are going to be influenced, better that they are great thinkers instead of drugged up, thieves like George Floyd.
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“Gender equality!” Nope. Still off base.
Imagine that, again taken too far. Now we are insisting in the public school systems that all kids remain non-binary! Ha Ha Ha Ha ….. we are on a downward spiral. Thanks for the crazies getting set loose by Joe Biteme.
Nailed it.