The following is a ‘gold pill credo’ written by iTrebor in collaboration with gold-pill friends & associates.
Gold Pill Credo
I. We Should Not Pretend
- Love has never been free.
- It was once transacted in land, gold, and livestock — now it’s traded in lifestyle, beauty, and attention.
- We do not pretend this isn’t the case.
- The Gold Pill is not bitter. It is honest.
II. The Dowry Never Died — It Just Changed Hands
- The dowry system was not abolished.
- It was absorbed into men’s obligations and disguised as “romance.”
- Where once a woman brought capital to a union, she is now told her beauty is the capital.
- We reject the lie that aesthetics are contribution.
III. We Study History Because We Refuse Amnesia
- For centuries, marriage was never about just love.
- It was economic alliance, intergenerational security, and cooperative survival.
- The dowry was infrastructure — not oppression.
- We read history not to mourn the past, but to expose the present.
IV. Provision Without Reciprocity Is Slavery
- Men are told: “Be the provider, or you are not a man.”
- Meanwhile, women are told: “If he truly loves you, he’ll expect nothing in return.”
- This is not partnership — it is parasitism.
- Gold Pill does not hate women. It rejects imbalance.
V. Romance Is a Luxury — Not a Foundation
- Emotions are real, but they are not a plan.
- Every system that replaced dowries with “love” has seen rising resentment, broken homes, and delayed families.
- We believe in love that rests on structure — not fantasy.
VI. The Government Became the New Father — And It’s Colder
- When families stopped providing dowries, the state stepped in — with welfare, severance, subsidies.
- The result? Women became dependents of institutions, not men.
- This is not independence. This is rebranded reliance.
- We aim to build lives with agency, not outsourced responsibility.
VII. We Are Not Red Pill. We Are Not Blue Pill. We Are Gold.
- Red sees manipulation, Blue sees magic. We see incentives.
- We do not retreat into rage. We do not escape into dreams.
- We remain in reality — and rebuild from it.
VIII. The New Dowry Is Not a Price Tag. It’s a Mindset.
- We don’t demand gold. We demand value: emotional maturity, practical reciprocity, shared mission.
- If you bring nothing, you are not oppressed. You are irrelevant.
- Gold Pill is not about transactions — it’s about fairness.
IX. We Reclaim Courtship As Strategy, Not Game
- The modern mating market is broken — not because people are evil, but because incentives are misaligned.
- Gold Pillers don’t chase. They evaluate.
- They don’t manipulate. They negotiate.
X. Gold Pill Is the Antidote to Gold Digging
- Not because we reject value — but because we insist it be mutual, conscious, and earned.
- Gold diggers commodify love without honesty. Gold Pillers restore value with clarity.