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Sealioning
Sealioning is a trolling and harassment tactic of relentless, superficially polite demands for evidence, coined from David Malki's 2014 Wondermark comic "The Terrible Sea Lion" and named during GamerGate; it exhausts targets and undermines their authority.
Social justice warrior
Social justice warrior (SJW) is a pejorative for promoters of progressive views; positive in the early 1990s, pejorative from about 2009–2011, mainstreamed by 2014 GamerGate, later displaced by "woke".
The Red Pill
The Red Pill is a 2016 American documentary directed by Cassie Jaye, exploring the men's rights movement through interviews with Warren Farrell and Paul Elam.
Tradwife
Tradwife (traditional wife): women promoting traditional homemaker roles and submission to husbands via TikTok, Instagram, YouTube; anti-feminist ideology, 2020 popularization, monetized influencer content, criticized as far-right adjacent.
Warren Farrell
Warren Farrell, also known as Warren Thomas Farrell, is an American author on gender issues who moved from 1970s men's liberation to become the men's rights movement's intellectual father.
What Is a Woman?
What Is a Woman? is a 2022 Daily Wire documentary directed by Justin Folk, hosted by Matt Walsh, asking interviewees to define "woman"; released June 2022, it reached 170 million Twitter views in 2023 after Musk lifted restrictions.