Hello, I've never visited this forum before. But I run my own business and usually listen to hours of redpilled content every week on youtube for the last 4 or so years. I typed this out for a reddit post earlier but I realized reddit doesn't really allow any type of discussion like this. But yeah, feel free to roast me. I hope to contribute better to this community. But this is what I'm dealing with right now.

I've known a family going way back from my teen years when I was in kind of a cult/religion that i grew up in. Girl who was always the prettiest and a few yrs older than me, I sort of knew her, but I was like 14 when she was 18 and married, so didn't really know her all that well.

Her family is super cool with me, our parents kind of know each other. FB friends at least. I moved back to my boring hometown few years back and started dating and upping my game. I'm in early 30s now, just dumped my ex. She was very attractive but she disrespected me 24/7, non stop. Just wasn't worth it anymore.

Anyways, new girl txts me a few months back while still in a relationship with a guy, even at one point sending me a short video of her doing pole dancing. Not like stripping but still. I kinda laughed it off because I don't want some jealous dude looking at messages so i keep my distance. She calls me and txts me a lot a few weeks back saying she broke up with him 2 months ago. She would want to call and talk about our upbringing and all sorts of stuff and drama going on. She asked about my gf and I said i finally dumped her. Week later she asks about how im holding up and I said well I still hooked up with my ex last night but im fine. New girl invites me on boat with her family for the 4th. There's a guy there that she had told me she dated a decade ago and shes obsessed with her and she asked me how to let him down. But on the boat she actually would go smoke with him and at one point asked if he would take her home if she drank too much.

I leave early, thank her family, say they can come swim at my pool whenever, as I work a lot and no one uses it. Last week she txts me asking about hanging out in pool. I ran out of my meds and had just broken out in cold sores from getting burnt on the 4th.

She shows up at my house right before me when I tell her ill be off work. She is all dolled up. Tight bikini, did her hair, lots of makeup with the sparkley smokey eye shadow, extra nose ring in, etc. We chill and talk adn drink rest of day. Kinda drunk. We get in my hot tub late at night. Im not making any moves as I don't want a bad reputation with her family and stuff. At one point she comes over to me and is massaging my wrist and arm, talking about how i need to take care of my body cause I do blue collar work and she knows i work a lot.

Usually this is when I'd make a move and pull her in and then start escalating. But as I had like 4 cold sores coming up, I just didn't feel confident and figured I should just not even worry about it the first night. We go inside, she passes out on couch, i go to bed.

like 3 days pass, she asks about coming over again, i say sure. She's at my house all day and i finally get off work late. Dead tired, 12 hrs no breaks. We are chatting and having some drinks outside and after a few drinks couple hours into the evening she says "wanna hear how much of a slut i am". She then proceeds to tell me that the night after she came to my house, she got on tinder, drove 2 entire hours to bang some sort of ripped army dude. She goes in graphic detail about how he had washboard abs, and gets very very very detailed. Like absurdly detailed about it. Goes on and on and on about how hes so high up in the army and so ripped. I am currently not ripped as I lost weight due to working so much and naturally thin. Although I'm 6'2". She even tries showing me his profile. I basically just didn't say much and was just like hmm wow.

then we go in, have another couple drinks, til literally 1 am. She suddenly just seems drunk af and totally passes out mid sentence.

And thats it. I don't really care about seducing her or anything. I just, like, it really bruised my ego. I basically don't understand what even happened. Or what shes thinking. I guess I don't get the point of it all or what she was trying to accomplish. I was actually kind of enraged at the disrespect last night, but after waking up today and going to work i just thought shes got serious issues and may have been desperately craving validation after feeeling "rejected" by me. The truth was i find her really attractive and just was going to wait til the next time to escalate due to cold sores lmao. Or maybe she has like ultimately friendzoned me? Like damn near weird ass level of almost cuckolding lmao. I don't really know what to do now. I don't really want her coming over here anymore just to tell me about dudes shes banging and dumb stories. But I don't want to look butthurt either.

Okay. Here goes my confession: I'm a dyed-in-the-wool liberal. Voted enthusiastically for Bernie way back in the 2016 primaries. Wanted him to run again. Held my nose and voted for Harris this past time. And I can't stand Trump. Some of his ideas I would agree with; for example, I'll give him credit for calling China our #1 enemy back in 2016 when everyone, Republican and Democrat, were tripping over themselves to sell off more of our country to them. But this dude as the standard-bearer for those ideas? I'll pass.

I hope I don't start a flame war for stating my opinion, and I respect that most people here would disagree with me on my politics, as I do theirs, but I think we do both solidly agree on the sexual and gender politics that this forum focuses on.

And the reason I'm outing myself (seriously, I feel like a gay guy coming out in the barracks in the 1980s :-) is because I wanted to answer the OP about why so many guys have become redpilled. If my liberal brethren continue to say that a woman who came from a rich background, went to an Ivy League school, and has a solid 6-figure job, is oppressed, while a guy from a poor family, who scraped his way through community college and lives breaking his back in an at-will construction job that he gets laid off from everytime the housing market cools, is privileged, then don't be surprised when your party loses that construction guy's support. Does being a woman mean your opinions are dismissed easier? Yes. Are there other disadvantages to being a woman? Sure. But do all those disadvantages automatically outweigh every other factor when it comes to deciding who's privileged and who's oppressed? Hell no.

The sight of a bunch of young women protesting on the campuses of Columbia or Harvard or some other safe, cloistered, Ivy League school, about their "oppression" while knowing their daddy's connections will land them in a far better life than the average male in America, repels men of all stripes to a degree that I think most of my liberal colleagues can't fathom. Calling anyone with a penis "the enemy" pretty much ensures that -- surprise -- they become "the enemy".

Anyway, that's my political analysis. I was amused when so many Democrats were shocked at how many young men voted for Trump the last election. All I could say was, if you tell men they're automatically bad because because of who they are, then they'll go to the party that doesn't tell them that. And every other issue, be it taxes, education, environment, whatever, that they might otherwise agree with you on, takes secondary precedence.

There's a great post in slatestarcodex about how this phenomenon works, specifically as it relates to young men and their difficulties in the dating world, and how that leads to wholesale conversation of their entire political affiliation. It's really good. I'll have to dig it up and post it as weekend content.