See “Marriage Slaves” movie:

Women are all the same everywhere.

At any rate, there were the standard “my style can beat up your style” remarks until a forum veteran replied with a post that really cut to the chase. He simply posted a list of the techniques that were explicitly disallowed in the UFC (e.g. head butts, eye gouges, etc.) and then said if you really want to get into bar fights and things like that, learn to do all of these well because there’s a good reason they’re disallowed in the MMA world: they work too well and too quickly to put on a good show or get past licensing boards.

Personally, I’d also add things like learn to deep conceal, use, and quickly and untraceably get rid of weapons (ever notice how people who regularly engage in this stupid shit use a lot of small knives, small pistols, and disguised weapons – look up police guides to concealed weapons for some hints like “LA-DisguisedWeapons.pdf” on google to get the shit scared out of you), hit first without warning, fight multiple opponents or fight with multiple friends, be willing to ambush men pissing in urinals or do whatever you have to do, and get a good lawyer. In other words, learn and master the mindset and techniques of a totally different person than who you probably are if you’re posting a question like that. And it wouldn’t hurt to be a total fucking moron while you’re at it.

The point is that this evangelical embrace of MMA is not really surprising because it allows for the thrills without the danger. Sure you can get hurt in the ring or cage, maybe even permanently injured or killed at the extreme margins, but you can get killed much more easily when the guy you didn’t notice with the .22 Magnum derringer shoots you in the back of the head as you wrestle on the bar room floor with his 1% MC brother or as you bleed out after performing a perfect 1-2-3 combination on his cousin in a parking lot after he blindside prison rushes you with his concealed box cutter.

Similarly, evangelicals nerfing game and rediscovering their masculinity in half-measure allows them to get a small testosterone high without truly questioning their core beliefs about women and men. That would be really dangerous as they’re psychologically and socially invested in their religious identities, just as we all are with out own identities. That’s the challenge of the red pill. Self-discovery and fundamental change are real scary motherfuckers because they begin by questioning everything you ever though and felt about life, and you have no real idea who you’ll become when you’re done.

So the MMA/Evangelical connection makes sense to me. It’s an easy cop out: a safe roller coaster ride that will end with the restraint bar rising upwards and a safe exit from the exciting ride to return to a mundane reality without exposing their inner selves to any frighteningly serious danger. That’s the connection in my opinion.

Great business model. The UFC should jump on this like stink on shit if they haven’t already, which I bet they have. Those guys don’t miss much.

This is an excellent point, and it’s become clear to me that among most middle-aged people, even those who are trying to understand things just can’t fathom how different and more dysfunctional the marketplace is.

It’s like talking to your grandfather waxing about “things were a lot simpler when I was young.”

Obviously, this hits young men very hard, as they are given advice for a comparatively restrained, ordered dating culture when it’s no-holds barred and he needs to play to win.

Even among those who would be prepared to be honest if they had the right information, I don’t think most middle-aged moms can understand how much more demanding their daughters are for dominance and uniqueness among men, how much more intensely they are chasing the top 20% at the expense of the rest of the boys. They don’t want to believe it, but at the same time they think, why shouldn’t their daughters have the best?

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/mma/post/2010/02/times-highlights-growing-christian-interest-in-mixed-martial-arts/1

Now that you mention it one of my ex employees is big into MMA. He also happens to be a “devout” christian and the worlds biggest mangina. He always wants to meet up for the UFC PPV fights but I’m not sure I’m into hanging out with a bunch of religious people who are 15 years younger than me.