• Hildegarde@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 days ago

    Big pharma ruined the metaphor by changing the pill colors.

    The blue pill was an antidepressant, the red pill was estrogen.

    Also the main villian is a man in a suit who constantly deadnames the protagonist. The matrix is real life.

    • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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      1 day ago

      I wonder if they did it intentionally.

      Changing the pill from red to blue basically cost them nothing and served no purpose, but just so happened to ruin the metaphor.