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Red Pill? How About No Pill?

Peter D. Baker
4 min readMar 25, 2024
Photo by Joël de Vriend on Unsplash

Here are five tips for men that are actually useful and not red-pill nonsense:

1. learn a second language

Preferably a common one in your area. Bonus: go to where the language is spoken and realize how strange and foreign you feel to gain a skill point in empathy. You might also use it to manage a crisis one day.

The words we speak — along with the music we listen to, the foods we eat, and movies we watch — give us a window into the lives of other people as well a deeper understanding of who they are. In that understanding, we understand ourselves better. Refer to the empathy point I mentioned above. Communicating is universal. The more we do it and the better we do it the more we realize that we share far more similarities than differences.

2. Learn about sex from a variety of sources

This includes anatomy textbooks, sex educators, and the people with whom you’re fornicating. Porn is simply entertainment, not an educational tool.

I’m typically not a fan of those types of videos wherein someone will ask a simple question and the answers reflect how poorly the questioned parties are versed in the subject. A recent example of this is one such video where the interviewer asks the interviewee if a woman can pee with a tampon…

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Peter D. Baker
Peter D. Baker

Written by Peter D. Baker

I’m writer in Seattle, WA. In addition to being a fan of music and heavy metal, I am an avid player of table top RPGs. find me here: peterdbaker.com

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