New Netflix Series is Accidentally Redpilled on Masculinity

The modern man: stalked by obese women, attracted to transgenders and groomed by gay men?

Why is Netflix, the same woke company that has put out horrendous content such as Cuties, suddenly dropping surprising redpills about masculinity, sexuality and the perversion of success? Surely topics such as predatory gay men, attraction to transgender “women” and other degenerate behaviours are a product of previous sexual abuse would be too taboo? However, the new seven-episode series Baby Reindeer does just that. The series follows the life of struggling comedian Donny, who falls victim to stalking by a fat older woman, shamefully dates a transgender woman, and is drugged up and groomed by a successful comedy writer.

This story is abnormally different from Netflix's usual political correctness. While the streaming service is keen to feature LGBT representation, it is rarely in a negative or critical light. However, the fact that this is based on the real story of Richard Gadd, the writer, enables a realism that doesn't usually make it to the screen. The diversity didn’t feel woke. It simply felt like modern-day London. 

Through being based on actual events, the series provides an insight into how modern day society corrupts what it means to be a man. 

The Corruption of Ambition

The drive for the protagonist, Donny, in the series is his ambition to become a successful comedian. He starts off in a pub in Edinburgh, where he soon meets a successful comedy writer, Darrien, who helps him with his routine which leads to him gain an audience. 

However, it begins to escalate when Darrien encourages him to take all kinds of drugs with him. Donny would wake up with all sorts of pains and in all types of positions, often with his pants down. Yet he still kept coming back. 

Why? Donny explained how Darrien made him feel special and that he could achieve great things in comedy. He would always promise a foot in the door, leading him on so he would continue to come around. 

Unfortunately, it surprises no one that these kind of things happen. Within areas where individuals have power and influence, sexual assault and abuse seem to be commonplace. We can see this in politics, as well as the entertainment industry, where, time and time again, political figures are accused of sexual assault. A well-known example is the Tory MP Chris Pincher who has been accused of groping two men at London’s Carlton Club. 

While this happens to women, not enough people talk about how often this happens to men. Within political spheres, the majority of my male friends (who are in their early twenties) have experienced, at minimum, uncomfortable sexual advances from men with political authority. It’s easy to understand why young men would feel pressured to accept the inappropriate behaviour from positions of authority to protect their careers, Especially the ambitious ones where their career means everything. 

Crying Your Way To The Top

Donny does eventually find success. However, the success is at the cost of his privacy. It is when he breaks down on stage about the abuse from his stalker, Martha, and his abuser, Darrian. This leads to the video of his breakdown going viral and him being praised online for his bravery. Of course, what happened to him was awful. We should sympathise with abuse victims. 

On a broader level, it speaks to how, as a society, we value people not based on their merit and ability but on their oppression and victimhood. A comedian no longer has to be funny. He is now meant to do the opposite of his job: make people sad. 

Not only is this just a wrong way of running a society, this is an incredibly feminised attitude towards what should be “successful.” 

Society shuns ambitious men. When I asked people in Shoreditch what men are good for, many of them couldn’t answer. This is wild considering that the majority of buildings around them, the technology they use daily, the safety of the country, and the production of the food they eat all mainly rest on men. 

Yet ambitious men are seen as dangerous or unwanted. Often, male bosses are seen as sleazy or entitled in the media, and any successful straight white man in a movie will inevitably get replaced by a minority or a woman. Men don’t have much positive representation in modern media. Is there any wonder why people like Dylan Mulvaney use transgenderism to gain fame when victimhood is one of the few ways to achieve success?

Actually, Maybe Liking it Rough isn’t a Flex?

One of the most interesting parts of Baby Reindeer is the reaction Donny has to the abuse of Darrien. It completely alters him and his sexuality from going from a seemingly normal man in a heterosexual relationship to wanting risky, meaningless, rough sex with strangers and putting himself in dangerous situations. 

Of course, this isn’t to say that everyone who has weird sexual desires has been abused. However, rough sex is becoming increasingly common. Just yesterday, I came across a post from a girl saying that she was injured from her first kiss because the boy thought it was normal to choke her. It is now commonplace that men learn about sex through pornography, which provides a catalog of weird kinks and fetishes for them to explore. Porn addiction leads to desensitisation around watching “vanilla” sex, leading to the viewer looking for more extreme material. 

Rough, promiscuous, or meaningless sex is seen as, at best, value-free and, at worst, a good thing. In fact, Baby Reindeer is the first time that I’ve ever seen rough sex be presented as a negative in the media. Normally, the mainstream media depicts “sex positivity” as a good thing, for example, with shows aimed at young people such as Euphoria and Sex Education.

The series goes as far as saying being attracted to transgender “women” is a product of the abuse. I don’t think they wouldn’t have been able to get away with this if it hadn’t been based on real-life events. However, it does raise that the rise in autogynophilia is a product of an overly sexualised and pornographied society. 

Maybe it isn’t desirable to be attracted to people who have mutilated their bodies to imitate the other gender. Maybe it isn’t desirable to want to be hurt and dehumanized during sex. When talking about kinks and fetishes, they are too often seen as a separate part of our identity, the Jekyll to our Hyde. However, the way we want to be treated during our most intimate moments in the bedroom reflects how we view ourselves. 

The Truth Is Right Wing

Throughout the series, Donny lacks agency and rarely acts confidently. The consequence of going NPC mode enables abusive and obsessive personalities like Martha to take advantage of his kindness. Even when Martha physically attacks his transgender girlfriend, it takes him a minute to intervene. 

The show demonstrates the need for society and men themselves to value masculinity. Men should be able to defend themselves and use their strengths to get ahead. Baby Reindeer proves their lives depend on it.