Early Friday before the opening session, a wispy trail of men - mostly white, college-through-retirement-age - waited for the doors to open outside of this Veterans of Foreign Wars outpost in suburban Detroit. One man talked about his ex-wife. A lot of guys talked about their ex-wives. Ex-wives and ex-girlfriends were often cited as the catalysts to these men's realizations that the world had become a hostile and dangerous place for males. Such realizations are what activists sometimes call "red pill moments," and although attendees coalesced around different issues - paternity fraud, circumcision, false rape allegations - the binding theme was that almost everyone here had experienced a version of a red pill moment.