Back in February I had an interesting exchange with commenter TuffLove. The conversation focused on his recent singleness due to his wife of 20-some years feeling the call of the Alpha and decided cheat on him, later divorce him and then take up with an even more Beta fellow not long after her ‘fling’ (his story). You can read the whole exchange here if you like, but what TuffLove describes is a textbook example of the Alpha re-interest impulse that defines the Development and Redevelopment/Reinsurance phases I outlined in the Preventative Medicine Series.
Not to rub salt in the wound, but you and your ex’s story is a cliché now. It’s the “making up for missing out” story. Woman marries early, cashes her chips in before she knows better, lives vicariously through her single girlfriends until such time that the “Alpha” she knew at 20 is the hapless Beta she’s saddled with at 39.
Divorce porn media convinces her to bail out and get with the Alpha she’s always missed for all that time. She did everything in reverse – Beta comfort and dependability through her party years, to be traded for Alpha excitement before it’s too late.
I was inspired to sift back through my comments for this conversation, because I was also made aware of a new example of both this phase’s dynamic and the divorce-porn industry that will inevitably find some very fertile soil to plant itself in.
This example comes to us courtesy of Robin Rinaldi, author of The Wild Oats Project. This book and the “experiment in cuckoldry” such as it was, centers on, you guessed it, a 40-something woman who abandons her marriage for one year to bang the random men she was prevented from fucking by being married to her dependable, unexciting Beta husband. Granted, the husband didn’t want children and this contention resulted in him getting a vasectomy – his only act of Alpha with her as far as I know. Her childlessness is of course her go-to victimization card she hopes will endear feminine sympathy for her taking matters into her own hands for a year.
The de rigueur rationalizations and appeals to womanly “self-discovery” are handed out like the M&Ms any Red Pill man will come to expect, but I’m drawing attention to this book because it has the potential to be the next step in the 50 Shades of Grey evolution of Open Hypergamy:
Get ready for “The Wild Oats Project.” And not just the book. Get ready for “The Wild Oats Project” phenomenon — the debates, the think pieces, the imitators and probably the movie. Get ready for orgasmic meditation and the Three Rules. Get ready for “My Clitoris Deals Solely in Truth” T-shirts.
On a social scale it seem like the next deductive next step – blend a justifiable Eat Pray Love narrative with the more visceral (yet unignorable) sexuality of 50 Shades and women will readily consume it. I expect there will be the same hamster spinnings of NAWALT and most women respect their marriage vows, but it still wont wash with the overwhelming ‘guilty pleasure’ popularity that 50 Shades exposed on a large scale.
Writers like Rinaldi and E.L. James have tapped into the Alpha Fucks / Beta Bucks anxiety rooted in women’s primal insecurity inherent in doubting their optimization of Hypergamy. If appealing to visceral sex sells products to men, appealing to the inherent ‘you-only-live-once’ insecurity of feminine Hypergamy sells to women – and women being the primary consumers in western society, sell it does.
Commenter jf12 related something Ballista posted on his blog recently:
Ballista asks, on his site, “why is divornography (divorce pornography) marketed exclusively to women? Why are there articles in women’s magazines and romance novels for women like Eat Pray Love that glamorize divorce, but nothing of the sort exists or is marketed to men? Why is there no male divorce porn, no stories of men divorcing their obese, aging harpy wives, liberating themselves from their marriage vows, and ending up living happily ever after banging large-breasted 21 year-old lingerie models?”
Can you imagine the uproar? Can you feel the Love yet?
Since the start of the sexual revolution there’s been a social undercurrent of excusable, justifiable comeuppance for any gender related imbalance women have been taught to believe that men are enjoying or benefitting from. Whatever male-specific indignation that would reflect negatively on men becomes a form of empowerment for women – particularly if that indignation facilitates men’s sexual strategy at the expense of women’s. Thus a woman taking a yearlong break from her marriage to bed as many men as she cares to indulge (fully expecting to come back to her dutiful Beta husband afterwards) is cast as an iconoclastic hero for casting off “patriarchal sexual repression.”
Furthermore, it’s only a small step to wipe the accountability of her actions off on the horrible man who wont cooperate by doing his duty to fulfill her sexual strategy. There is no more permanent a devotion to the male sexual strategy than to get a vasectomy and thus deny a woman the ultimate culmination of her own. If you ever want to experience just how close to livestock the Feminine Imperative considers men to be, just try getting a vasectomy before you’re married or without a wife’s explicit and written consent. Legally it’s easier to geld horses or neuter dogs.
It’s important to consider how the doubt over past hypergamous choices effects a mature woman. When a woman has passed through her Epiphany Phase and become a never-married woman into her late 30s the mindset becomes one of self-justification. This is similar to the Kate Bolick effect whereby a woman has very little choice but to live with her past intimate decisions and convert necessities into virtues. She embraces a ready-made empowerment narrative wherein she convinces herself that her choices were the bold, unconventional ones she needed in order to grow.
Next and most commonly is the woman who consolidated on a man’s commitment once she’d become less sexually competitive just prior to 30. I can’t be sure, but it’s likely that Rinaldi falls into this demo, the schedule more or less plays the same.
From Preventative Medicine IV:
Redevelopment / Reinsurance
The Redevelopment phase can either be a time of relational turmoil or one of a woman reconciling her hypergamous balance with the man she’s paired with.
The security side of this hypergamous balance has been established for her long term satisfaction and the Alpha reinterest begins to chafe at the ubiquitous certainty of that security. Bear in mind that the source of this certainty need not come from a provider male. There are a lot of eventualities to account for. It may come from a ‘never married’ woman’s capacity to provide it for herself, the financial support levied from a past husband(s) or father(s) of her children, government subsidies, family money, or any combination thereof.
In any event, while security may still be an important concern, the same security becomes stifling for her as she retrospectively contemplates the ‘excitement’ she used to enjoy with former, now contextually Alpha, lovers, or perhaps the “man her husband used to be”
The Soul-Mate Mistake
Vox had an astute observation about this phenomenon not too long ago:
Alpha Widowhood is a description of an observed behavior, not a cruel invention of the Game theoreticians meant to plague BETA husbands and give them sleepless nights:
“Steve has been with me for the past 50 years and Ron for 47. Neither is the man I am married to, nor have I seen or spoken to either since our love affairs ended in my 20s. All the same, there is no denying they have both messed with my marriage to Olly, the man who has been by my side for the past 40 years.
I found myself thinking about them both as I read recent research that suggested women who played the field before marriage are unhappier with their lot than those who entered matrimony virginal.
Angela Neustatter has often questioned what life would have been like had she married another manAngela Neustatter has often questioned what life would have been like had she married another man.”
I think it’s important to remember that an Alpha Widow doesn’t even necessarily need to have slept with a man she considered ‘Alpha’ from her past to feel the Alpha Widow effect:
Five minutes of alpha — even worse, five minutes of alpha rejection — can fuck with the heads of even the most desirable women. And continue fucking with them years later. In comparison — if the reports are to be believed — women who divorce beta schlubs after years of marriage pretty much forget them before the ink is dry on the papers.
Sometimes being an Alpha Widow means hypergamic ‘rumination’ over a better Alpha option a woman missed or was rejected by in her past in comparison to the guy she “settled on” for marriage. This is particularly significant if that guy was a woman’s Plan B husband. It’s not just the actual Alphas she banged back in the day, you’re competing with an imagined ideal and the more women are empowered and encouraged to feel secure in exploring their hypergamous options (i.e. correct their ‘soul mate’ mistake) the more you’ll read stories like this.
However, for all intents and purposes my instincts tell me Rinaldi falls into the “making up for missing out” demographic. On whole this demo of women can eventually become the worst self-inflicted Alpha Widows in their latter years. I let Rinaldi explain…
“I refuse to go to my grave with no children and only four lovers,” she declares. “If I can’t have one, I must have the other.”
If you’re wondering why that is the relevant trade-off, stop overthinking this. “The Wild Oats Project” is the year-long tale of how a self-described “good girl” in her early 40s moves out, posts a personal ad “seeking single men age 35-50 to help me explore my sexuality,” sleeps with roughly a dozen friends and strangers, and joins a sex commune, all from Monday to Friday, only to rejoin Scott on weekends so they can, you know, work on their marriage.
[…] One of her oldest friends calls her out. “How is sleeping with a lot of guys going to make you feel better about not having kids?” she asks. Rinaldi’s answer: “Sleeping with a lot of guys is going to make me feel better on my deathbed. I’m going to feel like I lived, like I didn’t spend my life in a box. If I had kids and grandkids around my deathbed, I wouldn’t need that. Kids are proof that you’ve lived.” It’s a bleak and disheartening rationale, as though women’s lives can achieve meaning only through motherhood or sex.
As I illustrated in Preventive Medicine, there’s a root insecurity inherent in women’s Hypergamy. From an immediate perspective this can manifest itself as a battery of women’s psychological and sociological filtering mechanisms for Hypergamous optimization with a man she’d just met, to the husband she’s been married to for 20 years. However, it’s vitally important for men, particularly married and LTR men, to understand that the confines of a committed relationship is never any insurance against Hypergamy in the long-term, and the rationalizations of that Hypergamy evolve as women mature.
Of course the first, best advice is the simplest “just never get married”, but even if you are a single man entering your 50s you will encounter women who’ve experienced (or never experienced) a crisis of Hypergamy and the incessant drive for Alpha optimization of it. If you are a younger man dealing with an older woman (why, I don’t know) you will likely encounter women like Rinaldi and women with similar mindsets as Robin Korth. It’s important to know what you are, or will be, dealing with.
March 19th, 2015 at 7:27 pm
I’ll check it out
March 19th, 2015 at 8:09 pm
@Sun: Well played!
March 20th, 2015 at 1:07 am
@M3: Thank you so much for this mate!
“For as questionable and retarded as these women’s actions are when they do this (EPL/Wild Oats)… one has to admit, for all the initial pain or problems it might cause the men in their lives – it does ultimately save them from living horrible lives committed to these rtards. The guy usually bounces from it to live a more fulfilling life, the women burn out fast and fade away writing books and making due with their empty lives.”
A-fucking-men.
March 20th, 2015 at 1:45 am
@M3
The guy usually bounces from it to live a more fulfilling life, the women burn out fast and fade away writing books and making due with their empty lives.
You know what was funny was that there’s a lot of threads on r/theredpill trying to celebrate how women that go full on AF/BB from 20s to 30s will “pay” for their actions. There’s been responses lately though (quite correctly) saying “No they won’t”. It’s true. Women (particularly attractive ones) get exactly what they were promised and don’t have to pay for it at all. They have a pretty good chance to Have It All ™.
What absolutely none of those women are aware of is that post-BB and post-Wall all bets are off. There’s a good chance of spinsterhood. One of the plates I dropped is actually cute “for her age” at 41 and has a really great attitude. I definitely enjoy her company, but there’s no way in hell I’m ever committing to her.
She acknowledges it (I have said as much openly to her), but I think she doesn’t know it. It’s pretty clear she thinks she can change me. I am, to her, Alpha as fuck and it shows. She will have to settle for a lot less than me to get something long term again.
The real trap women fall in to is the belief that they can again hunt for Alphas after ditching their Beta. That’s a really insidious, quick path to spinsterhood.
March 20th, 2015 at 3:31 am
yup. any hb7-9 in her prime, now post wall at 35+ seriously does still see herself AND expects alphas to see her as that same hb7-9.
As she swings between AF/BB branches without a care in the world, when she does crash into the wall she ends up swinging from BB/BB – because AF is now out of the equation.
I’m happy to pump and dump these muttons dressed as lambs, but I can only laugh and snicker at their desperation to lock you down.
Alpha agents of rightous karma
March 20th, 2015 at 4:34 am
8,000 Years Ago, 17 Women Reproduced for Every One Man
Nice article for friday reading, Nothing really we did not know, but we were thinking more on 1-10 right ??
http://www.psmag.com/nature-and-technology/17-to-1-reproductive-success
March 20th, 2015 at 6:31 am
Nice link Jetxo, avoids the cathedral paywall.
They focus (AFAIK) on male repro success, Pareto’s 80%-20%, to the max (5%-95%, who knew?).
Speculating (wisely) on male misfortune, epidemics, and wealth effects.
Nobody seems to want to approach the elephant. Female misfortune, and if “natural” conditions were dominant, biological failure.
An unweaned hunter/forager child is usually doomed if the mother dies in childbirth, a very human problem not seen in other animals, much.
Pastoralists and agriculturalists have partially solved this problem in a number of ways.
Obviously, ready sources of milk
Then the enhanced chance of finding a wetnurse among the immensely denser population of kin.
And the ability to feed all the extra mouths.
The widower, meanwhile, whether hunter or farmer, has a problem. The other kids. Can’t lean on the inlaws or siblings for too long while off stabbing things, or turning the sod. Needs a new wife, obviously. Not too hard for a young tribesgirl to be attracted to the solid productive bloke her dad has pointed her towards, in contrast to the local youth who haven’t made their bones yet. The chief won’t want one of his best workers, even if he’s not a glorious warrior, put out of action by the carelessness of his deceased wife.
Which results in a houseful of new babbies for the father. And there’s not much to stop it happening again. Spawn, cark it ..next!
My own great great grandpa had two wives in succession for this reason, eleventeen kids. There were others in the family tree but I can’t recall the numbers of wives. It was unremarkable until the welfare state rocked up. Dad can’t get t’mill or doon t’pit if he’s got to babysit, therefore workhouse for the lot of ’em, if he doesn’t remarry pretty damn sharpish.
tl;dr
In the past, feeble women fucked things up a lot by dying on their kids. Fortunately they were easily replaced.
March 20th, 2015 at 7:27 am
Most relevant point.
Stay away from divorced women. Closed.
March 20th, 2015 at 8:25 am
@declineandfall,
That Heat quote is maybe my all-time favorite. It could be a Red Pill/MGTOW motto. I teach English in Asia and use that dialogue between Pacino and DeNiro often. I get paid to teach that quote. Glad to see that it inspires you also.
March 20th, 2015 at 9:19 am
@Rollo – Just a mention, maybe you can update the blog, under ‘the books’ subheading, you should add the 2nd book. Just after ‘blog roll’.
March 20th, 2015 at 11:11 am
I’ve been thinking more about women “going wild” or “making up for lost time”. After reflecting on my experiences while working in my Zen garden, a pair of male bluebirds squabbling distracted me.
It struck me, because, they were fighting over a birdhouse (one of several) that I made and hung up last year. So, of course, the satisfaction was savory, but the two males chasing each other around made me consider human relationships. Is one mate-guarding, or simply preventing another bird from claiming his premium nest box?
See, I’ve had a sort of “philosophy” developing since even before discovering the red pill. Being an outdoorsman, and a bit of a scientist, I tend to do a lot of observation. Well, my “philosophy” consists of over-simplifying human love and female relationships to mirror the simplicity of mating in nature as an “ideal”.
As many know, several bird species stay mated for life. And, why not? Their needs are met; and if a hawk snatches up your mate, well, you just have to find another one. The point I wanted to make is where it comes to the function of many male birds in the mating/courtship process. Yes, males are generally bigger and brighter-colored, for “peacocking”, no doubt. But, I’m talking about a male birds actions, and how simple and similar to how a human male should ideally be behaving.
The male house wren, for example, goes around finding suitable nesting cavities for his mate. Once he discovers a suitable hole, he then proceeds to put a couple of twigs and perhaps some grasses in each of the potential nesting cavities he deems worthy. The female then inspects each space he as prepared, then chooses the one she wants to nest in.
So, in that situation, you can see that the male is a “provider” of sorts, in so far as he procures a nest, and proceeds to labor in order to line that nest. Can he make the female chose? No, sometimes the female will reject ALL potential nesting sites the male offers.
Here’s where it ties in:
Any man has little control over a female in terms of the future. A man can’t ever guarantee a female in his nest. If anyone has read any of my ramblings over at SS, perhaps they’ve read “The Map and Compass” or it’s compliment, “The Castle”. In those, I personally discover and contemplate the idea of “MGTOW” and “nest building”.
In one essay, I outline how men just walk a path with little ultimate “control” over who is walking along the path with them, just like the underlying dynamics of what “women making up for lost time” illustrate. “OOh! Shiny!” *off on another path they go*
They’re sometimes around, sometimes not: don’t count on women as a permanent fixture in your life. Simple, and that lead to “The Castle”, which likens a man’s life, and elements in it, to a castle and it’s bricks.
You can see my “philosophy”, simply put, as men being the “nest builders” of our species. Like I mentioned in a previous post, men are the “love architects”. One can simply view men as the nest builders, and women (perhaps even children) are the intended recipients.
I may seem too simple at an initial glance, but after you strip away all the “artificial” modern influences, and get at the core, you can easily see that it has merit. Myself, it so happens that I “went my own way” to build a castle for myself, or “struck out to make a (happier) nest”.
Little did I understand at the time just how much of a powerful move I was making. There have been several “accidental” benefits, but suffice it to say that “my nest” now is far more appealing to women than a rented apartment was (and the appearance of “good provision” is obvious). Well, imagine birds fighting over awesome nesting spots. If you agree that “sperm is cheap”, then, the actual male host of the nest isn’t nearly as important as the nest itself to the female. So, what’s the natural conclusion? Don’t count on a mate staying in your nest: there are likely better nests out there somewhere, right? Ok, perhaps not that simple, but a PUA could swoop in an run some NLP and drop a BF destroyer, and your bird could be led to believe that the PUA’s nest is better and split your scene… (or anything along those lines).
Guess what? There are birds everywhere that don’t have a suitable nest. Build one. That simple. MGTOW and build your castle, then lower the drawbridge and interview the line of maidens that has formed outside (it will be there, consider the “6’4″, tall, dark, handsome lawyer/accountant/doctor” provider dynamic). It’s a simple matter of “get your shit straight, and women will find YOU”. Isn’t that a woman’s function? To find a suitable nest? You’ll never be able to control a bird’s influences, so don’t depend on the bird, depend on your castle.
If any man finds himself struggling with women, examine your nest. Never mind finding a bird until you have a kick-ass nest; then the birds will find you. It’s a matter of foregoing “fake it ’till you make it” and going straight at being “the real deal”. You can tell a woman “I’m a good provider”, but a Man says “Check out my nest”, and demonstrates. To a woman, it’s the difference between hearing “I’m a hustler” and “I’m a King.” To this, I’m sure many dudes with their shit straight can attest.
I can’t really get angry with women regarding “gold digging” anymore, they are just counting the sticks in a nest, and to be somewhat expected as a natural compulsion of any species. Sick, considering what a unnatural concept money is and how much we attach our happiness and well-being to it, but that’s another topic.
March 20th, 2015 at 2:49 pm
Check this out: http://www.savorthesuccess.com/member/laura-campbell
OMFG. I think I will open a shop next door to sell cats to the steady supply of spinster-shrews she generates.
March 20th, 2015 at 2:56 pm
Heheh,.. looks like Giggles has some competition.
March 20th, 2015 at 3:15 pm
Hello. This isn’t apropos only to this article but I’d like to throw something in here that I think you and I differ on. I think some of the behaviors you point out are definite modern social themes but I’m not sure about your go-to narratives. But my biggest point is this. Shouldn’t we be getting away from the false dichotomy of Alpha/Beta? I agree that modern women probably do indeed draw such a line but sometimes I feel like you’re ideas are based more around manipulating that instead of trying to elevate ourselves out of such indignant labels. If we play along (even to our advantage) we perpetuate the problem. Or am I just a sucker hoping I’ll meet a woman that can understand that I have what I think are the best qualities of “alpha” and “beta”?
March 20th, 2015 at 3:50 pm
@tipareth
Why would a true, internalized positive Alpha ever want to be Beta at all?
March 20th, 2015 at 4:39 pm
@ Sun Wukong
If Alpha is a mindset then the question would be can an Alpha mindset express Beta behaviors such that his external identification is beta?
March 20th, 2015 at 5:01 pm
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March 20th, 2015 at 5:43 pm
@Badpainter
Victor Pride writes with that mindset.
Victor Pride and Mike Cernovich answer that question in every blog post.
Mike is a close friend that I’ve spent a lot of time with him in person prior to his extended relocation this year. I’ve never seen one second of beta behavior from him. It’s in a group I brought him into that’s filled with people that would intimidate most men and also in a larger group of our friends, girlfriends/spouse etc there is simply no beta behavior. He’s respected for that.
The only MEN other than relatives that I surround myself with are Alpha Men.
Your time is limited, so it’s important to avoid spending that time (if you mean close friends) with males that do not exude congruent Alpha.
The only MEN that I make introductions to my network of top performers, global leaders, innovators, celebrities, etc, as necessary… are alpha leaders.
One of my voice coaches is one of the best on earth at what he does. Despite that, his voice is not known for it’s depth. On the scale of male voices, his voice has a higher pitch, yet he has complete control over his voice presence. NO ONE thinks of him as anything but Alpha because, despite a higher pitched voice, he has complete control over his body language, voice presence, frame etc
March 20th, 2015 at 5:58 pm
@Badpainter
Rollo Tomassi is another great example of this. He doesn’t just write about this stuff, but he demonstrates in when he chooses to help someone.
One of the times I remember when I reached out to him for advice. His response was not beta. It was Alpha. He didn’t say, “Oh, Sam, you pitiful little man, let me listen to all the details about how much you’re hurting and let send you a teddy bear.”
Instead he asked me why I had chosen to put myself in that situation. It was a masculine, matter of fact question. No long explanation was needed. He’s like “The Adjustment Bureau” but in a positive way.
Instead of the soft BS one might hear from a well-educated psychologist, Rollo Tomassi snapped me – the ‘patient’ – back by reframing my mindset back to the state it had been practicing for years. There is no room for anything else.
The lack of congruence with the alpha mindset causes problems like beta behaviors. Beta behaviors are recipes for tragedy.
March 20th, 2015 at 6:40 pm
@ LiveFearless
That’s sort of what I meant. I think the question tipareth raises is an illustration of misunderstanding what you are saying.
The Alpha mindset exists separate from external factors, and in spite of those factors. In my mind it’s a matter of costume vs. character vs. action. The whole holding doors BS a couple weeks back is what I am talking about. I see the Alpha/Beta debate as often missing the point and being a distraction in that too much time spent arguing about the costumes and scripts.
A man who buys the Alpha costume and apes the stereotypical behaviors without the mindset won’t pass close scrutiny. The man with the Alpha mindset can wear whatever costume he wants, act how he wants.
The whole dialogue surrounding the applied tactics of game for the beginner is of course about fakery. One hopes the process creates something real beyond improving acting skills.
For myself that’s where Rollo comes, providing the knowledge of how and why things work as they do. Those of us who unplug are as children copying adults to learn. Part of that learning is learning to identify what is real and what is not.
March 20th, 2015 at 9:08 pm
@Badpainter A man who buys the Alpha costume and apes the stereotypical behaviors without the mindset won’t pass close scrutiny. The man with the Alpha mindset can wear whatever costume he wants, act how he wants.
Well said. As a demonstration of what you said, do you remember in the movie “Hitch” actor Kevin Sussman is “Neil” and actor Will Smith is “Hitch”
“Hitch: The shoes are hot. You went to the place I told you?
Neil: Yeah, but I don’t think they’re really me. “You” is a very fluid concept right now.
Hitch: You bought the shoes.
You look great in the shoes.
That’s the you I’m talking about.”
In other words, this is not normal for Neil, it feels uncomfortable for Neil, but what Neil was instinctually doing has not been working.
It is not inauthentic to take the actions of self improvement. We were not born knowing how to tie our shoes. Is it not ‘who we are’ to tie our shoes?
From “The Rational Male – Preventive Medicine” by Rollo Tomassi:
To the boys who grow into Beta men, the ready eagerness with which they’ll roll over and reveal their bellies to women comes from a conditioned belief that doing so will prove their emotional maturity and help them better identify with the women they mistakenly believe have a capacity to appreciate it…
For the greater part of men’s upbringing and socialization they are taught that a conventionally masculine identity is in fact a fundamentally male weakness that only women have a unique ‘cure’ for…
Of course I had no idea I was practicing any Game at the time. I had reinvented myself and my identity shifted into that of a guy who was Spinning Plates, being more self -concerned and enjoying the benefits of that social proof and DHV; but if you’d asked me what I’d done to effect that change… I wouldn’t have been able to give you an answer then – Game was just instinctual for me. Now in my married years, as a husband and the father of a teenage daughter, and my professional life in the… where I interact with beautiful women on a weekly basis, I still employ Game when I don’t realize I am… You can unplug. You can change your programming
The latest Rollo Tomassi is simply a must-read for all men, even men that assume they’ll disagree with its concepts. On this particular topic, he has added sections that are not part of the glossary, which further explain the answer to the question. The book has mountains of mind-blowing NEW MATERIAL that’s never appeared on this blog. I could cut/paste more, but eventually I’ll just have to quote the whole book.
@Badpainter you also wrote:
For myself that’s where Rollo comes, providing the knowledge of how and why things work as they do. Those of us who unplug are as children copying adults to learn. Part of that learning is learning to identify what is real and what is not.
Well said. The beauty of it is that we have the ability, in choosing male friends, mentors etc, to choose ONLY those that LIVE the Alpha mindset. We have the ability to turn off the TV and YouTube and other stuff that’s not doing something that will enhance life exponentially instead: Learning from those with that authentic mindset like Rollo Tomassi.
March 20th, 2015 at 9:46 pm
@Badpainter, you wrote:
The whole dialogue surrounding the applied tactics of game for the beginner is of course about fakery. One hopes the process creates something real beyond improving acting skills.
As an actor, people are all around you expecting you to perform on cue. It’s about breaking down the walls of insecurity and pushing all inhibitions aside in the moment. You, your body language, your breathing, your voice… become the emotional truth that will affect the audience the way that truth is intended to affect her.
From “The Rational Male – Preventive Medicine” by Rollo Tomassi:
There are a lot of guys paying ‘marriage coaches’ $150 an hour because they never did. There was a great comment I received in this regard that was too good not to include…:
“…Up to now I have faked my Game, to some extent . I just knew better than to do certain things or did things I knew would make me attractive, etc. to women. But seeing this now, not only am I realizing there is nothing to be bitter about – I was always happier working on myself and my interests and actually resentful of having to stop them – but that I am actually happier doing this thing women want of us we call “performing”. In a way, you are performing, as Rollo says, either way…(partial excerpt of the comment – the whole comment is in the book)”
@Badpainter, so the commenter “faked” his game to some extent. But, really, each person, in real life, has to be an actor. It’s not practice that makes perfect, it’s perfect practice that makes perfect. When we’re doing the alpha mindset the right way, habitually, positive stuff happens. It’s reinforced, and this makes the habit begin to become a part of who we are.
From “The Rational Male – Preventive Medicine” by Rollo Tomassi:
As I’ve stated on many occasions, it is men who are the True Romantics. Granted, it’s the indeliberate result of centuries of evolved ‘courtly love’, but in the realm of what qualifies as a true act of romance, it’s men who are the primary actors; it’s men who ‘make’ (or want to make) romance happen. And of course therein lies the problem, a man cannot ‘make’ romance happen for a woman.
When the alpha mindset becomes who he is, he’s considered ‘successful’ in everything he does. In person, people do not approach that man and accuse him of being fake or inauthentic. It is who he is even though he did not begin that way.
March 23rd, 2015 at 2:33 am
To be fair, I understand the deathbed perspective (regardless of whether it’s what she actually believes). How she thinks casual sex will leave a lasting mark on the planet, I don’t know, but I understand not wanting to fade out. Not being able to have children would make existence pretty futile and empty.
March 23rd, 2015 at 6:11 pm
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