pinkpill

plural pinkpills

1. incel slangA notional pill taken by femcels (female incels) who have adopted a nihilistic philosophy that unattractive women will never be sexually or romantically successful.

   The former occurs within the context “have you taken the pinkpill yet” and the latter within “amalt what are your thoughts on this”.

   2021, anonymous, quoted in Irina Levit, "'Foids have no soul, they are not human': A sociological examination of the language used by an online male supremacy group", thesis submitted to the University of Ontario Institute of Technology, page 52

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   Interestingly, other pills, such as the purplepill and pinkpill, hint at some being undecided about whether dating is skewed in favour of one group or another and to femcels or female involuntarily celibates.

   2020, Vanja Zdjelar, "Alone together: Exploring community on an incel forum", thesis submitted to Simon Fraser University, page 10

   Femcels often refer to "Pink Pill" philosophy, a similarly desolate understanding of human nature in which sexually undesirable women are the victims of society's in-built "lookism," an immovable prejudice based on physical appearance.

   2021, Jilly Boyce Kay, “Abject Desires in the Age of Anger: Incels, femcels and the gender politics of unfuckability”, in Suzanne Leonard, Diane Negra, editors, Imagining "We" in the Age of "I": Romance and Social Bonding in Contemporary Culture, unnumbered page

2. incel slangA notional pill taken by those who have adopted a belief that as unattractive men they would be more attractive as trans women.
3. slangOccasionally used by trans women to refer to estrogen pills.

present singular third person pinkpills · participle present pinkpilling · participle past pinkpilled · past pinkpilled

1. slangGeneral term used by black feminists to describe the whitewashing of feminism.
2. InternetTo encourage a cisgender man to start taking estrogen, or to become transgender.