The Roosh-Pill or Your 1st Red Pill

[christie2]

Hello Ladies!

I’d love to hear from everyone; How did you discover Roosh and the RVF? What was your first red pill?

Personally, I discovered Roosh around ‘08. A friend of my BF at the time had posted an article by Roosh (either on Facebook or myspace, yes that was still a thing). It was a compiled list of ‘Everything Wrong with American Women’ or something. It definitely grabbed my attention. To my surprise it was actually brutally honest (read: accurate), even if I was guilty of a few of the items he detailed. From there I just kinda would check back reading his work and the forum out of morbid curiosity from time to time.

The moment I was fully on board with red pill ideas escapes me. In part, I definitely credit Roosh and the forum with pushing me further on my path to God and saving me from myself. I was living in a major city at the time, so things could have gone sideways real fast. Instead I was confirmed in the church of my childhood (and ancestors) in 2010. Met my husband not too long after that.

It would be interesting to hear your stories.

One of his articles was linked somewhere in the red pill manosphere and I thought he was a good writer.
Also, I figured if he wrote about God the way he writes about other topics, I would be lead properly to (re)develop my bond with Christ. This, after some time has past with little contact, presented an effort that seemed too big for me to do on my own.
In less than a month of reading on this forum, I've been given a wonderful headstart with Church research and resources.
I am on the right path again.

 

[jeffinjapan]

The beginning of my red pilling was the invasion of Iraq over 9/11.

I’m a lot older than most of you guys so I had never even heard of Roosh during his heyday as a PUA. The first time I saw Roosh was when Jay Dyer showed a video of a prank call he did to Roosh when he pretended to be a black dude who had discovered a bunch of witchcraft items that belonged to his girlfriend. And after that I never hear from Roosh again until after he had converted back to his Armenian faith.

 

[TexasJenn]

I don't remember where I first saw Roosh's material. But what first interested me was men airing their grievances about modern culture and romantic life. For a long time I'd been wondering why men had become so soft and unmanly. I knew the PUA approach was all wrong, and the irony of men leading immoral lifestyles endlessly picking apart their hedonistic female counterparts was always obvious. But I felt strongly from the beginning that Roosh and many of these men would elevate their thinking beyond the hamster player wheel. I'm glad that has come to be. Long overdue, but better late than never.

 

[magaman]

I discovered him in 2018, shortly before he went full on Christian. It was some article that someone shared on Breitbart comments section about "the 10 of the Soviet Union on how to corrupt the USA" and it just went from there. I was going through a tough time at the time too so discovering him was a blessing, I started reading other things he had to say too

 

[Ah_Tibor]

I had a LiveJournal (I'm old) acquaintance who got into pick-up stuff, so I remember reading some of the worse ones, like Mystery, just from it popping up on my friends list. I came across Return of Kings stuff at some point because I spent too much time on the internet, and thought it was funnier and a bit more self-aware and generally less gay. But it wasn't really for me (not a dude) so I forgot about it.

I think I read "The Internet Was Created as a Surveillance Network"; I liked the 2018-era articles.

I listened to Owen Benjamin every day back in 2019 (my husband would go to work, I would go throw up because I was pregnant, and then have him on in the background while I did stuff around the house, and then went to work in the afternoon), and he talked about Roosh doing a road trip. I watched the videos and was like OMG HE'S ORTHODOX NOW?! and called my brother.

I don't know, I guess seeing Roosh doing things I've taken for granted or just had in my life already was interesting, and it made me happy.

 

[Sol Invictus]

I discovered Roosh sometime after first discovering the manosphere by way of Roissy, sometime around 2011. I had just gone through the worst period of my life, had been emotionally wrecked by a relationship with an evil woman, and had let my life spiral out of control to the point where I was homeless for a short period of time. I had just moved back in with my parents and was really trying to get my life back together when I first discovered the manosphere, and of course it wasn't long after that that I discovered Roosh's writings. I was a pretty ardent follower for a while, jumped on the ROK website when it first started and even wrote for his short-lived Reaxxion gaming site. Discovering Roosh and some of the other early manosphere guys really helped save my life.

 

[Viktor Zeegelaar]

Great stories. I followed a similar path as Roosh, material dissatisfaction, PUA/lifestyle development, disaster/implosion, cojona/elite truth, God truth. One thing I'd like to ask is how did you experience this journey? For me I started 5 years ago in PUA. Since then I felt that every day I had a brain transplantation, for the views one has change so much. I've kept myself on my feet but in hindsight I was extremely mentally unstable. I decided to take it a bit more easy now and give myself some space, but it's been an incredible tough ride.

 

[Atlas Shrugged]

For me it started when I got into the word on my own. Nothing against church or my Bible study group. Of course that helped me. But once I seriously started reading with my son, on my own, and with an accountability partner something changed. My eyes opened. I would read a few chapters then look up what I read, what the meaning is, was I right or wrong in interpreting what it meant. Doing that on my own made me question more and want to learn all I could. That in turn led me to certain people online as well which also helped. It wasn’t fast but it also wasn’t a slow process. I googled something once and that led me to return of kings. I didn’t like the PUA stuff but the whole men are leaders and women need to follow I got behind. That’s pretty much how it started.