black piller

English

Alternative forms

• blackpiller

Etymology

From black pill +‎ -er.

Noun

black piller (plural black pillers)

1. A person who has adopted a nihilistic and often far-right philosophy, especially an incel who believes men's dating success is determined purely by their physical appearance.
   • 2019, Jack Bratich, Sarah Banet-Weiser, “From Pick-Up Artists to Incels: Con(fidence) Games, Networked Misogyny, and the Failure of Neoliberalism”, in International Journal of Communication, volume 13, page 5017:

     But in contrast to a therapeutic mode of connecting with others, this nihilistic network does not seek to overcome its condition: Black Pillers accept their fate and even dwell in its finality.

   • 2019, Stephanie Swales, Carol Owens, Psychoanalysing Ambivalence with Freud and Lacan: On and Off the Couch, unnumbered page:

     Hate and revenge are the principal driving satisfactions for Blackpillers targeted at women (especially fat women and Indian and Asian women because they only want to have sex with "Chads"); […]

   • 2020, Incels.co wiki, quoted in Anne Jones, "Incels and the Manosphere: Tracking Men's Movements Online", thesis submitted to the University of Central Florida, page 66:

     Some biological essentialists^[sic] blackpillers promote fatalism, believing that it is impossible to change female nature (gender essentialism), so we should just "give up".