But Jaye doesn’t provide them with their expected pro-feminist lens. They clearly spoke with the assumption that their position would be shown as self-evidently correct, and so made little effort to convince or hide their contempt. Jaye brings in a number of feminists and gender studies professors to try to rebut the MRAs. The calm, reasoned demeanor of the MRAs on film stands in stark contrast to their oft-times caustic online writings. The data are complemented by family court horror stories of men whose children were given up for adoption by the mother against their will, or men forced to pay tens of thousands of dollars in child support for children who aren’t even theirs.

Jaye even validates their statistical claims with her own fact check. And they used it to great effect, reeling off an array of statistics about the struggles men face in today’s world: 93 percent of workplace fatalities are men 4 out of 5 suicides are men men are sentenced to 63 percent more prison time than women for the same offense, et cetera. Jaye gives them and their female supporters ample space to tell their story. The Men’s Rights Movement, a small movement of men’s rights activists (or MRAs) typically treated with opprobrium, couldn’t have asked for a more sympathetic portrayal. It’s also about Jaye’s own personal journey in making a film about them. Cassie Jaye’s controversial documentary, The Red Pill is a film about the Men’s Rights Movement, male-focused analogs of feminists who lobby for legal and social changes to remedy discrimination against men.

The red pill