pinkpill

English

Etymology

From pink +‎ pill, after the pattern of red pill, and because of the association of pink with femininity.

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Noun

pinkpill (plural pinkpills)

1. (incel slang) A notional pill taken by femcels (female incels) who have adopted a nihilistic philosophy that unattractive women will never be sexually or romantically successful.
   • 2020, Vanja Zdjelar, "Alone together: Exploring community on an incel forum", thesis submitted to Simon Fraser University, page 10:

     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.

   • 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:

     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, 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:

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

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:pinkpill.
2. (incel slang) A notional pill taken by those who have adopted a belief that as unattractive men they would be more attractive as trans women.

Coordinate terms

• black pill (nihilistic male incel philosophy)