A GOP Lawmaker Has Been Revealed As The Creator Of Reddits Anti-Woman Red Pill Forum

[Saviolo]

From uproxx:

The far right tends to use the term “red pill” as a catch-all to describe social attitudes and indoctrination. It’s an odd choice, considering it comes from a movie written and directed by two trans sisters, but it mostly comes from the notorious anti-woman Reddit forum r/redpill. Now, the founder of that forum has been tracked down, and he’s a GOP lawmaker.

Specifically, the Daily Beast has found that New Hampshire state representative Robert Fisher founded the subreddit Redpill under a few aliases. Fisher is a mostly unremarkable politician in the state, but has ties to more colorful and controversial state politicians like Joshua Youssef, who notoriously has a very public grudge against his ex-wife’s divorce attorney.

The forum he founded, however, is notorious for a cult-like atmosphere and is one of the more well-known misogynistic corners of the internet. It launched the career of Milo Yiannopoulous, who was a regular contributor to the forum and whose involvement in it became part of the backlash that ultimately cost Yiannopoulous his job at Breitbart. Just how involved Fisher is in the behavior of the forum in recent years is unclear, as Redditors can have multiple screen names and even assume different personalities to discuss their views without those views being traced back to their real names. However, after being contacted by the Daily Beast for the story, Fisher has attempted to wipe any connection he was with the forum.

Full article here: http://uproxx.com/technology/reddit-red-pill-founder/

And The Daily Beast:

Last November, voters in New Hampshire’s Lakes Region re-elected to the state house of representatives a man who appears to be one of the secret architects of the internet’s misogynistic “Manosphere.”

The homegrown son of a preacher, 31-year-old Robert Fisher is a Republican who represents New Hampshire’s Belknap County District 9. In addition to his legislative duties, Fisher owns a local computer-repair franchise, and in his spare time, seems to have created the web’s most popular online destination for pickup artistry and men’s rights activists, The Red Pill, according an investigation by the Daily Beast.

An investigation into Fisher’s online aliases found a trail of posts linking the lawmaker to the username Pk_atheist, the creator of The Red Pill—an online Reddit community of nearly 200,000 subscribers that promotes itself as a “discussion of sexual strategy in a culture increasingly lacking a positive identity for men.”

And yet Fisher’s past comments on a host of Reddit forums are arguably far more disturbing than what his colleagues have said in public. He blasted women for their “sub-par intelligence.” He said that women’s personalities are “lackluster and boring, serving little purpose in day to day life.” And Fisher once commented, “It is literally the [female] body that makes enduring these things worth it.”

In a state with one representative to every 3,200 people, many of Fisher’s female constituents are likely to know him personally—whether or not they know what he’d once posted about women online. And those comments were just the start.

Full article here: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/04/25/the-republican-lawmaker-who-secretly-created-reddit-s-women-hating-red-pill.html


Here's where we have to take the fight. This is a GOP lawmaker who is currently in power and he runs a hub for anti-feminists, misogynists, rape apologists, and white nationalists.

[crazycatlady]

1. He needs an EMILY's List challenger

With only 3200 constituents, she needs to pound the pavement.

[emulatorloo]

2. I guess we'll have to start "negging" this sorry chauvinist asshole,won't we.

[salin]

3. Reading the Daily Beast article... really messed up dude.

Someone is likely to resign from the statehouse before too long. Jeez.

[Saviolo]

4. I was pondering putting up a content warning on that link

For really awful things like rape apologia and extreme misogyny.

[dawg]

5. You don't say?

[LisaM]

6. This is so disturbing.

It's also discouraging. How do we make progress if there are elected officials who feel this way? Clearly he masked it to some extent to get elected, but how uninformed are his constituents? Are they going to care, and drum him out of office?

[Initech]

7. Take 'em down. Whatever it takes.

[gratuitous]

8. I wonder why all these he-men are so cautious about being identified?

Surely they're not scared to do manly battle in a manly way to defend their manly attitudes and manliness?

[Saviolo]

9. Your post made me think of this:

[Blue_Tires]

10. I feared deep down we'd eventually be in the

"internet troll" -era of politicians... Trump has really opened the floodgates...

[Hekate]

11. I hope Fisher and his new blow-up bride find lasting happiness & leave the rest of us alone

With that hateful attitude he's not likely to find a permanent relationship with a flesh and blood woman. What a sicko.