Dalrock had an interesting post this morning – Black Fathers Don’t Matter – that mends nicely with a topic I was poking at in Obesity Culture:
While HHS (Health and Human Services) says any man currently shacking up with mom counts as the father, the Census says any man currently shacking up with mom counts as the father so long as mom says so. Either way, fathers clearly can’t matter that much to the US government if distinguishing between the actual father and the man currently banging mom isn’t important.
There are other ways we can tell that fathers don’t matter (and therefore Black fathers don’t matter). Under our current family system fathers are a sort of deputy parent. Just like a sheriff’s deputy serves at the pleasure of the sheriff, a father in an intact family serves at the pleasure of the mother. Our entire family court structure is designed to facilitate the removal of the father should the mother decide she no longer wants him to be part of the family unit. How important can fathers really be, when we have a massive and brutal bureaucracy devoted to helping mothers kick them out of the house?
What Dal is pointing out here has a far broader implication than simply how various governments define fatherhood. Many critics of my defining the Feminine Imperative like to think it’s a work in conspiracy. However, as I’ve explained before, there really is no need for a conspiracy; the Feminine Imperative has no centralized power base because feminine-primacy is so ensaturated into our collective social consciousness. It needs no centralization because feminine social primacy is literally part of women’s self-understanding – and by extension men’s understanding of women and what women expect of them.
Thus, on a Hypergamous social scale we see that Protein World’s male focused ad gets no such vandalism. The message is clear – It is Men who must perform, Men who need to change themselves, optimize themselves and strive for the highest physical ideal to be granted female sexual approval. Women should be accepted, respected and expected to inspire genuine desire irrespective of men’s physical ideals.
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On more than a few occasions I’ve made the connection that what we see in a feminine-primary societal order is really a reflection of the female sexual strategy writ large. When we see a culture of obesity, a culture of body fat acceptance and a culture that presumes a natural evolved order of innate differences between the sexes should be trumped by self-impressions of female personal worth, we’re viewing a society beholden to the insecurities inherent in women’s Hypergamy.
A feminized, feminist, ordered social structure is one founded on ensuring the most undeserving women, by virtue of being women, are entitled to, and assured of, the best Hypergamous options by conscripting and conditioning men to comply with Hypergamy’s dictates.
I’m quoting this again here because, in light of Dalrock’s observations, it’s important for men to really understand that the power struggle women claim to be engaged in with men has already been settled on a meta, social scale. When a father is whomever a woman says he is, that’s a very powerful tool of social power leveraging.
- A father is anyone a woman/mother claims he is
- A father is legally bound to children he didn’t sire
- A father is prevented at great legal and social effort from access to DNA testing of children he suspects aren’t his own
- A father is legally responsible for the children resulting from his wife/girlfriend cuckolding him
- A father is financially obligated to the support of children that he didn’t sire or he had no power in deciding to sire
These aren’t just examples relating to men’s lack of power in parenting; these are examples of determining the degree of control a man can exercise over the direction of his entire life. From Truth to Power:
Real Power is the degree to which a person has control over their own circumstances. Real Power is the degree to which we control the directions of our lives.
The inherent insecurity that optimizing Hypergamy poses to women is so imperative, so all-consuming, to their psychological wellbeing that establishing complex social orders to facilitate that optimization were the first things women collectively constructed when they were (nominally) emancipated from men’s provisioning around the time of the sexual revolution.
Ensuring the optimization of women’s biologically prompted Hypergamy is literally the basis of our current social order. On a socio-political scale what we’re experiencing is legislation and cultural mandates that better facilitate Alpha Fucks and Beta Bucks.
Driver had a good comment from the last post that illustrates another aspect of this feminine-power consolidation (emphasis mine):
“All the “feeling good about your body” that a fat woman can muster is NEVER going to be an aphrodisiac or a substitute for having a great body that men are aroused by.”
It’s funny how women are very attracted to a guy who works out, eats rights and takes care of his body but they fully expect men to love them (or be attracted to them) for “who they are” – thin or big. You would think that these overweight women would get the memo by now but women (and more of them) keep getting bigger each year.
Feminine-Primary Social Doctrine is the Extension of Women’s Hypergamy
In a feminine-primary social order women presume, without an afterthought, that they are entitled to an attractive guy who works out and meets or exceeds women’s very stringent and static physical ideal. At the same time they expect an entitlement to absolute control of that attraction/arousal process regardless of, and to the exception of, any influence or difference in men’s control of that process. And they expect this without any thought to meriting it beyond appeals to a nebulous and inflated concept of their personal self-worth.
When we consider the present, ambiguous state of sexual consent laws we begin to understand the latent Hypergamous purpose those laws serve – absolute consolidation of women’s Hypergamous strategies as the motivator of any sexual encounter.
Furthermore, they expect an entitlement, either directly or indirectly, to the material support and provisioning of men for no other reason than they were born female.
Any deviation from this is on the part of men is met with a cultural reprisal designed to convince or coerce men to accept their inevitable role in providing those entitlements to women. When those social contingencies fail, or become played out, the Feminine Imperative then appeals to legal legislation to mandate men’s compliance to what amounts to women’s social entitlement to optimized Hypergamy.
Legislating Hypergamy
From the Alpha Fucks side of Hypergamy this amounts to socially shaming men’s sexual imperatives while simultaneously empowering women’s short-term sexual strategies and fomenting men’s societal acceptance of it (i.e. the Sandberg plan for Open Hypergamy). This is further enforced from a legal perspective through consent laws and vague “anti-harassment” legislation to, ideally, optimize women’s hypergamous prospects.
When we read about instances of the conveniently fluid definitions of rape and harassment (not to mention the pseudo-victimhood of not being harassed), this then turns into proposed “rape-by fraud” legislation. Hypergamy wants absolute certainty, absolute veracity, that it will be secured in its optimization. And in an era when the only restraint on Hypergamy depends on an individual woman’s capacity for being self-aware of it, that Hypergamy necessitates men be held legally responsible for optimizing it.
Even the right for women to have safe and legal abortions finds its root in women’s want to mandate an insurance of their Hypergamous impulses. Nothing says “he wasn’t the right guy” like the unilateral power to abort a man’s genetic legacy in utero.
Feminist boilerplate would convince us that expanding definitions of rape is an effort to limit men’s control of women’s bodies – however, the latent purpose of expanding the definition is to consolidate on the insecurity all women experience with regard to optimizing Hypergamy.
The Beta Bucks insurance aspect of Hypergamy is evidenced by cultural expectations of male deference to wives’ authority in all decision making aspects of a marriage or relationship. And once again this expectation of deference is a grasping for assurances of control should a woman’s Hypergamous choosing of a man not meet her expectations. This is actualized covertly under the auspices of egalitarian equalism and the dubious presumptions of support and feminine identification on the part of men.
Beyond this there are of course the ubiquitous divorce, support, child support and domestic violence legalities that grossly favor women’s interests – which should be pointed out are rooted in exactly the same Hypergamous insecurity that her short-term Alpha Fucks mating strategies demand legislation for.
As Open Hypergamy becomes more institutionalized and made a societal norm by the Feminine Imperative, and as more men become Red Pill aware (by effort or consequences) because of it, the more necessary it will become for a feminine-primary social order to legislate and mandate men comply with it.
Going Mainstream
I’ve addressed this before, but I’ve never done politics on TRM. I will never do screeds on race or multi-culturalism or religion on TRM for a very good reason – it pollutes the message.
We now are seeing the results of this pollution as the manosphere is attacked from both sides of the political spectrum.
I’ve given this example before, but if you put Gretchen Carlson and Rachel Maddow on the same show and confronted them with red pill truths and Game-awareness they would eagerly close ranks, reserve their political differences and cooperatively fight for the Feminine Imperative.
This is the degree to which the Feminine Imperative has been saturated into our western social fabric. Catholic women in the Vatican may have very little in common with Mormon women in Utah, but let a Mormon woman insist the church alter its fundamental foundational articles of faith with regard to women in favor of a doctrine substituted by the Feminine Imperative and those disparate women have a common purpose.
That is the depth of the Feminine Imperative – that female primacy should rewrite articles of faith to prioritize women’s interests.
Religious doctrine, legal and political legislation, cultural norms, labor and economic issues; all are trumped by the Feminine Imperative. All have been subverted to defer to the Feminine Imperative while maintaining a default status of victimhood and oppression of women and women’s interests necessary to perpetuate that covert decentralized power base.
It doesn’t matter what world view, ideology or political stripe the opposition holds; men, masculinity and anything contrary to the feminine-primary social narrative will always be a common enemy of the Feminine Imperative, and both liberal and conservative will climb over one another to throw the first punch if it means defending women and defending the feminine social order by proxy.
This is why anything even marginally pro-masculine is vilified in mainstream society. Anything pro-masculine is always an easy, preferred target because it’s so hated, so incorrect, in a feminine-primary context that it can unite people of hostilely opposed political and ideological differences.
It’s my opinion that red pill awareness needs to remain fundamentally apolitical, non-racial and non-religious because the moment the Red Pill is associated with any social or religious movement, you co-brand it with an ideology, and the validity of it will be written off along with any preconceptions associated with that specific ideology.
Furthermore, any co-branding will still be violently disowned by whatever ideology it’s paired with because the Feminine Imperative has already co-opted and trumps the fundaments of that ideology. The fundamental truth is that the manosphere, pro-masculine thought, Red Pill awareness or its issues are an entity of its own.
This is what scares the shit out of critics who attempt to define, contain and compartmentalize the manosphere / Red Pill awareness; it’s bigger than social, racial, political or religious strictures can contain. It crosses all of those constructs just as the Feminine Imperative has co-opted all of those cultural constructs. The feminized infrastructure of the MSM that’s just beginning to take the manosphere seriously enough to be critical are discovering this and trying to put the genie back into a bottle defined by their feminine-primary conditioning.
The idea that one of their own, whether in a liberal or conservative context, is genuinely Red Pill aware and educating others of that awareness is unnerving for the Feminine Imperative that’s already established strong footholds in either ideology.
@sjfrellc
Our entire family court structure is designed to facilitate the removal of the father should the mother decide she no longer wants him to be part of the family unit.
Remove his presence, but not his money.
@Lone Survivor – I would suggest that your lack of success with women even while jacked and ripped is due to how you present yourself as a sexual partner. Even though you are jacked and ripped if you present yourself as a potential LTR to any degree, you thereby place yourself in the BB category, and, obviously, near the bottom if you don’t have any resources. If, however, you present yourself as an exciting, once-in-a-lifetime, hedonistic, I-know-I’ll-regret-it-later-but-it’s-SO-much-fun-NOW, superfun fucktoy, you’ll get VERY different results. Congruence plays a huge role. If you ask a bunch of women what qualities make a… Read more »
Firstly, Red Pill is a praxeology, not an ideology. Entangling it with ideologies will only, as Rollo says, dilute the message. Secondly, I would say that the tendency toward collective action/consensus building is endemic to the feminine condition. Women are aggressively social creatures, whereas men are performance-oriented in their natural hierarchies, and resort to collectivism only at need. Women first welcome fellow women formally with openess and a sense of egalitarianism, but the newcomer is soon sorted into the appropriate consensus group and subjected to the same controls as the rest of the consensus. She has a voice, but very… Read more »
@ianironwood First off I’ve noticed that about myself. Thanks for bringing that up secondly about to read your books. @Lone survivor Would love to meet up sometime for a training session and get my ass handed to me. Out of shape @kyf (Very good point) (Women fuck men other women wanna fuck) would suggest that your lack of success with women even while jacked and ripped is due to how you present yourself as a sexual partner. Even though you are jacked and ripped if you present yourself as a potential LTR to any degree, you thereby place yourself in… Read more »
@Rollo “Alpha isn’t about who’s doing the breeding, it’s about who’s doing the fucking”. oH, I forgot that we breed without fucking 😀 You are only seeing one part of the picture. Why is fucking important from an evolutionary point of view? Because it allows perpetuation of the species (altrusitic behavior) and perpetuation of individual’s genes (selfish behavior). 120000 years ago, the higher the success or the attractiveness to females = the higher the number of offspring that such male produced. Now, having countraceptives, the higher the attractiveness = the higher the number of fucking. Take a guy who has… Read more »
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@Lone Survivor
“you don’t need to behave, you simply ARE.”
Does that not count as a mindset?
@ianironwood
women work idealistically and men work opportunistically.
Very true point. I get the oddest looks from women when we discuss work and I flatly state “I’m a mercenary, not a charity. Employers have to give me a reason to be there, and by ‘a reason’ I mean ‘a stack of cash’.”
@ Kyfho Myoba Agree with you on that. It is to be noted that you can do all that without having a hard-body. Now, one question: why should a man like me (who has a good body and is starting a career in one major Pharma Companies in the world and who could be doing 8000 euro per month in 4 years) should spend energy presenting himself as an hedonistic once-in-a-lifetime guy to women when I can simply pay a prostitute? What is the difference between a hooker and an everyday girl? Please note that I am being pragmatic, result-oriented… Read more »
@Lone Survivor, I can rent Lamborghini, doesn’t mean I own it.
Lone Survivor – “What is the difference between a hooker and an everyday girl?”
200 hours of community service?
“Take a guy who has the body of Charles Atlas (ye olde Charles Atlas for a change), and a Average Muscleless Joe who makes 15000 USD a month. Who is the “alpha”?”
Me.
@Rugby
Rugby, it is a mindset, indeed. But it is not a mindset oriented towards getting pussy, it is one intended for self-improvement and fulfillment. Pussy follows.
Get yourself together and go for a run… it is the first step towards getting back to shape.
@10×10 – You’ll note I’ve not once said the left is evil. They do have a very different moral compass, and one that permits great leeway in the use of political power to pursue justice. I am close to some really hard core leftists and I can tell you that in their personal lives they are good people. I’m not hear to demonize anyone. I’m not even here to talk politics – Rollo doesn’t want to and normally doesn’t and I keep away from it in the main. But if it’s going to be dealt with in such a slapdash… Read more »
@ Glenn re: Marxism I haven’t read Marx, although Richard Wurmbrand, who survived the Bolshevik invasion of Romania and 14 years of imprisonment and torture and several years of solitary confinement, had some opinions about it. He wrote a book called “Marx and Satan” if that’s any indication of his thoughts about him and his ideas, lol. He was at some guy’s speech somewhere who was promoting communism, and walked up and took the mic out of the guy’s hand. He said “I have a PhD in communism” and proceeded to take his shirt off, showing the massive amount of… Read more »
@ Kyfho I am uninterested in the consensus opinion of political scientists. Also, it seems the Nolan Chart, while good, is a useful tool to describe the political views of an individual. I was trying to describe where a political system would fall on a spectrum. If you look at it in terms of the Nolan Chart, the 2 extremes would be Police State in the bottom left corner, and Total Anarchy in the top right corner. Both of these are undesirable conditions, and my point still stands that fascism/nazism/statism is not a far right ideology, it is a far… Read more »
@ Glenn My forte is the personal side of all this. Like I said, I don’t know about politics, but I do know a hell of a lot through firsthand experience about: -mental illness -addiction -social isolation -sexual frustration I’m a cog in the wheel as much as anyone else is. It’s not like I exist outside of my environment. Whatever about me that is genetically unique, okay — but a lot of times I think of myself as a social experiment. How much of use did I really learn in school? If I was running things I’d try to… Read more »
@Softek
That was such a great thing to learn from.
@Lone survivor
Going an a run later just ran into a women however and learning about letting go of my white knight.
@Rollo @Lone Survivor, I can rent Lamborghini, doesn’t mean I own it. Yes, it is right. As long as women don’t realize that you do not own it, it will be fine. Now, the uncomfortable question: say you have 500 USD to rent a Lamborghini Gallardo for one day. You can choose to do it for the amusement of driving it and/or picking up girls. If you are going to use the car for the sole purpose picking up and fucking, then pay yourself an escort. If you are going to rent it to enjoy the ride, then your investment… Read more »
This post is on point. Ask yourself how the current family court system could have developed into the dystopian nightmare that it has become. The answer isn’t to be found in ideological differences that pit the left against the right, but on those things which both sides of the debate agree and which consequently are never brought out into the open to be discussed at all. The whole system is designed to shame, cajole and coerce men into taking care of women. You get two different rationales for one policy and since there is nobody there to provide criticism or… Read more »
There is a substantial qualitative difference between (1) sex with a woman who is totally turned on by you viscerally, without regard to your car/money/job and (2) sex with a woman who is being paid by you for sex, or a woman who is having sex with you to get a piece of your money spent on her. Those are just very different things, and the difference in quality is not small (the quality of the sex itself). Nothing can compare to monkey sex with a woman who can’t help herself because she’s unbearably turned on by you *viscerally* and… Read more »
I’m not talking about Lamborghinis.
Indeed
“I also think this plays into the hysteria about rape culture. The fear is not so much about rape but about 2nd tier and lower men behaving as though they were top tier. Even if the average men lack polished game just having the same expectations and recognizing/accepting only the same burdens as the best AF men places greater burdens on women to accept responsibility for their choices.”I saw it as trying to control top tier, make them more compliant on demand. And banishing lower tier from even coming to the starting line. Or at least removing them after the… Read more »
@Lone Survivor – What is the difference between a hooker and an everyday girl? It’s the difference between Beta Bux and Alpha Fucks. The hooker fucks you because you gave her money. She likes the money, not you. The everyday girl fucks you because you give her the tingles. You’re hawwwt. She doesn’t care if you have money or not (if you present yourself as I described earlier). It’s the difference between transactional sex and validational sex, and as all of us here on The Rational Male know so well, desire cannot be negotiated. I saw a comment somewhere on… Read more »
It’s actually a shame that more of you haven’t read Marx because, weirdly enough, Marx’s theoretical framework actually provides a pretty elegant and compelling explanation for what the blue and red pills are. As Althusser explained, “ideology is your imagined relationship to your actual conditions of existence.” I can’t think of a better description of the blue pill. An argument could be made that the blue pill was Marx’s “superstructure of belief” which once explained your experience of biological and material reality, or what he called “the material base.” The blue pill was simply yesterday’s superstructure which explained your experience… Read more »
“The constant strategy if Communist repression, whose central aim was always the establishment of absolute power and the elimination of political rivals and anyone else who had any sort of real power in society, was to attack systematically all the organisms of civil society. Because the aim was a monopoly on power and truth, the necessary targets were all other forces with political or spiritual power.”
Sorry, meant to point out in my original post that this and the text above it was from The Black Book of Communism.
This is a complete digression, but I thought I would share it. Sometimes I watch Karen’s older videos and I wonder what she would look like if she grew her hair out. I think…she would be kinda cute. Not a knockout but…kinda cute.
@Lone Survivor
SMV is not binary. A musclehead may not always be impoverished and having an MD doesn’t preclude being “yoked.” The goal of maximizing SMV (as I understand it) is about optimizing health, wealth and confidence.
Georges St. Pierre, Dr. Travis Stork and Wladimir Klitschko are paragons of optimized SMV. Your common yoked guido from Jersey will never pull the kind of tail that GSP, Stork and Klitschko can.
@Glenn Very often political discussions turn into either echo chambers or some high-falutin’ version of, ‘the Left is evil!’ ‘Nuh-uh! The Right is evil!’ This hasn’t happened (much) here, so I’m glad to see that. I’m no scholar of political though or ideology. I plan to read the essay you referenced above simply as a point of pride, and we’ll see if anything takes off from there, but my default position is generally to view political ideas and movements as emergent characteristics of society underpinned by biological incentives and drives. If Marx hadn’t written what he did to spark such… Read more »
Oh, and also:
Hope things go well with that girl this weekend!
Silly of me, I used more than one link.
Glenn, wrote a comment about political stuff to ya above that’s in moderation. Rollo tends to be quick so I imagine it’ll appear soon.
I just started reading “The Globalization of Addiction” by Bruce Alexander, the guy who’s responsible for the Rat Park study on addiction that was done back in the late ’70s. “The history of Vancouver suggests, and a broader survey of history seems to confirm, that today’s rising tide of addiction to drug use and a thousand other habits is the consequence of people, rich and poor alike, being torn from the close ties to family, culture, and traditional spirituality that constituted the normal fabric of life in pre-modern times. This worldwide rending of the social fabric ultimately results from the… Read more »
@ Seraph “If, as you suggest, traditional masculinity is such a threat to the order of those three (thus their hostility to it), then perhaps pushing back through promoting masculinity, under the Red Pill flag, will be enough to undermine all three’s power structures. It will also have the added benefit of creating “social warriors” of our own, but true ones, not faux ones.” What is traditional masculinity though? Because it also entailed being a provider draft horse. The only socially acceptable aspect of traditional masculinity that remains is the beta bux provider. It’s not as if it is an… Read more »
Re: Politics…. One thing that is helpful to discussion when politics is forced to enter the discussion is to remember that no single group’s ideas can possibly define your thoughts in perfect detail. And more importantly, that because they cannot do this, any offense felt by someone blasting your “favorite” side is little different than getting upset that someone blasted your favorite baseball team. If those parties can actually describe your feelings, if you absolutely completely agree with everything the Democrats or the Republicans say, then frankly you shouldn’t be allowed to voice an opinion because your opinion is not… Read more »
@ Forge the Sky “I’m no scholar of political though or ideology. I plan to read the essay you referenced above simply as a point of pride, and we’ll see if anything takes off from there, but my default position is generally to view political ideas and movements as emergent characteristics of society underpinned by biological incentives and drives. If Marx hadn’t written what he did to spark such idealogical fervor, someone else would have written something similar that did.” Don’t be silly. Marx was an evil man who appeared ahistorically and wrote a magic book which billions of people… Read more »
@Divided Line
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@Jeremy
It’s so great to be wrong
“that there is merit to be found in a multitude of perspectives.”
@Divide Line
“Their is no way back to traditional marriage”
Freaking sad that is. Gonna miss never being in the 50’s
Self surgery
Being out in nature is a gift
Was thinking of this today
Nature=red Society=Blue
http://www.jacklondons.net/Media/to_build_a_fire_print_ver.html
The death of traditional marriage is not the worst thing that could happen to masculinity. But it is actually quite bad for civilization, because you only have civilization when most men have reasonable access to sexual success. Without that, you get chaos and war.
@Rollo
I fucking envy your brain and tolerance.
I can see Mrs Tomassi’s love to you.
95% of politics and power are WOMEN(that is beautiful women).
@Glenn
I’m sure when Carl Marks wrote Das Kapital, in the back of his head what he really meant : Das Kapital to fuck beautiful women.
Divided Line – “This is the whole problem with assuming that the ascendancy of the FI is due entirely to the left and feminism. In reality, a right wing traditionalist conception of masculinity is just as gynocentric as the left and it is equally at fault for the current state of family courts and misandric law generally. They’re just two sides of the same worthless coin.” Not quite. The old order traditional restrictions on men were a method of ensuring consequences for irresponsible behavior. Reckless fucking and generating bastards is unquestionably bad/immoral/wrong when the two people responsible have no capacity… Read more »
@Jeremy
Without that, you get chaos and war.
Which begets a decrease in male population, which reasserts patriarchy due to favorable male:female ratios, which rebuilds society.
Kind of amazing how it works once you step back and look at it.
The Law of Unintended Consequence (of an overreaching government) has been born out and proven over and over to no avail. Not an inkling or a suspicion. A fucking Law! Milton Friedman won the Noble Prize for this discovery. It is largely ignored with politicians and policy makers. It is the nature of government to become more intrusive and move left. In Coming Apart, Charles Murray intentional left out black america to make clear that the decline in morality and economic opportunity is not only being experienced by minorities but on us all. Our environment is a direct result of… Read more »
@ Glenn “Western civilization is in its twilight years. And don’t kid yourself folks, the Dark Ages can come again. We do not have to “progress”. I tell myself this. Why shouldln’t I live in a society in decline? Why not me? And I can’t do a thing about it. I’m a speck of sand on a beach and all this is far more powerful than me.” You do realize that Schadenfreude is your best friend in a declining civilization? You already know that and exhibit it well. At the risk of exhorting your to read one more fricking book,(… Read more »
@Sun Wukong
It’s like a deer population die-off. The problem though is that in a modern context, war increasingly becomes suicidal World War II killed 60 million people with 1940s technology. Imagine what a 21st century world war would be like.
@Divided Line
Aye, Jeremy noted during our roundtable the other night that the nuclear bomb pretty much eliminated world war as a regulator of male population. Once he plopped that in front of me, the idea that a lack of war is what lead to the insane levels of hypergamic privilege suddenly becomes a product of the nuclear age.
It’s absolutely fascinating in a gruesome way.
@ 70’sAntiHero “To understand how we got here you need to look no further than that of the momentous swing of the philosophical pendulum. Away from logic, reason and patriarchy, (Aristotle) and towards mysticism, relativism and tribalism (Plato).” You haven’t spent much time with Plato, I see. Aristotle considered himself a Platonist, even if he disagreed with Plato on key points, the two biggest being Plato’s critique of democracy and the theory of the forms. What’s funny about this is that Aristotle’s critique of the theory is actually just the same one that Plato himself offered up in the Parmenides.… Read more »
Two schools of western philosophical thought. Plato v Aristotle. You have a distorted notion of philosophical history. Aristotle was a student of and his ideas were in contrast. St. Augustine based much of his ideas on Plato. You ramble on in non-essentials like Emanuel Kant.
@Sun wukong
“It’s absolutely fascinating in a gruesome way.”
http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.pdf
The guy got two medals of honor not one two!
His approach to society is very close to Rollo’s… Give it a read
Going to get some rest. Thanks for existing on earth in any capacity.
Also it’s worth mentioning that Plato’s lack of belief in the possibility of public rationality and the efficacy of democracy was shared by the founding fathers in the United States with the possible exception of Jefferson at various points. Democracy was thought to lead to the “spirit of faction” and was essentially a dirty word. Their lack of faith in it wasn’t based on Plato, however, but Hobbes. Read Richard Hofstadter’s histories, he explains it at length. That is the whole idea behind checks and balances in a tripartite system and choosing representative government over direct democracy. Take a look… Read more »
@70santihero “Two schools of western philosophical thought. Plato v Aristotle. You have a distorted notion of philosophical history. Aristotle was a student of and his ideas were in contrast. St. Augustine based much of his ideas on Plato. You ramble on in non-essentials like Emanuel Kant.” They are different schools, but nothing you’ve said here indicates that you understand either. I’m not going to continue to argue with you about this, since it’s pretty far off topic, but which side of right wing thinking did you get this idea from, I wonder? The Ayn Rand side or the Karl Popper… Read more »
@70santihero
Actually scratch that, I was thinking of Thomas Aquinas.
Plato a student of Socrates, both believed that reality was unavailable. And that objects and events are shadows. Another words, eyes to be blind and reality is subjective.
Sounds like mysticism and relativism to me. . . . “Who’s to say?”. . . “Who to know?”
An infinite regression in relativism. . . . . . Are you sure that you can’t be sure? Certainty is achievable.
Two camps. Knowledge if provable. To wallow in grayness is the absence of hierarchy and principle.
@70’sAntiHero “Plato a student of Socrates, both believed that reality was unavailable. And that objects and events are shadows. Another words, eyes to be blind and reality is subjective. ” This is literally the opposite of what Plato was arguing. Plato’s entire system of thought is based on the idea that reality is singular, objective, and can only be known through reason. That is how he defines philosophy. Socrates is said to have been martyred for this very idea. You would understand nothing about what Plato was arguing if you thought this. His chief disagreement with the sophists was on… Read more »
@70’sAntiHero Let me try to make this relevant to the topic. What do women and relationships look like to a blue piller? He experiences them directly, a la Aristotelian epistemology, so he must know women and relationships for what they truly are, yeah? Or could we say that the blue piller experiences, not women and relationships, but their shadows, a la Platonic epistemology? See the difference? Plato is arguing that the red pill exists and can be taken, the actual woman can be known once the woman he experiences is recognized as an abstract shadow which he mistook for the… Read more »
@ 70santihero
“Make woman man’s equal and she becomes his superior.” -Socrates
It is a mis-characterization that Plato was objective. More like non-sensory or extra sensory.
Aristotle held concepts as intrinsic a derivative of reality.
I disagree with your ramblings.
@Kyfho Thank you for your response. Let’s elaborate on this: “It’s the difference between Beta Bux and Alpha Fucks. The hooker fucks you because you gave her money. She likes the money, not you. The everyday girl fucks you because you give her the tingles.” Do you think that when you meet a girl at a bar you are not paying? Quoting Bill Burr, the greatest trap women make you fall into is believing they won’t get their pound of flesh from you. Say you go tonight to a bar to practice all TRP stuff. You will be spending: 1.… Read more »
@70santihero In the example I’ve given you, is the red pill sensory or non-sensory? The point here is that you never experience reality directly, you only get an image of it, reality’s recreation by your senses which appears on the stage of your mind. It is partially seen and partially understood. Outside of the cave we find the forms, or abstract patterns which explain the seen, inside the cave we find the shadows, which are what is seen but not understood. Look at an optical illusion like an the image of the old woman that is simultaneously the young woman.… Read more »
@TOM SMV is not binary. A musclehead may not always be impoverished and having an MD doesn’t preclude being “yoked.” The goal of maximizing SMV (as I understand it) is about optimizing health, wealth and confidence. Agreed. Good point. It is a combination of factors: pursuing a career/goal in life + developing assertiveness + regaining masculinity And when you get to that point you simply ask yourself: “wait, I have achieved all this, why the fuck am I chasing after women who’s SMV will decay after hitting 25 while my SMV will continue to rise as I get promotions and… Read more »
@Glenn
What I wasn’t too sure about was what I take to be an unnecessarily churlish attitude to @rollo who is the whole reason most of us are here.
@ Divided Line
If you get hit by a bus you experience reality directly.
Your are a child of post-modernism regurgitating your professor’s half truths and maligned suppositions. Such zeal!
Thomas Jefferson champion of freedom or slave owner?
You should understand the broader implications of Aristotle’s and Plato’s ideas. And use brevity.
I ascribe Occam’s razor and to the principle of Aristotle’s ides. Father of logic champion of reason.
Women subjective men logical. Theres your tie in.
Okay?
Goodnight.
@70santihero “If you get hit by a bus you experience reality directly.” Uh huh, but if you never knew it, what difference does it make? If no consciousness exists to perceive the universe, the bus isn’t a bus. It’s just sub atomic particles in various configurations, no different than the air surrounding it. There is no bus, or air, for that matter. Matter exists, as does the energy which pulls it apart or holds it together, but it ceases to have *meaning.* “Your are a child of post-modernism regurgitating your professor’s half truths and maligned suppositions. Such zeal!” Do you… Read more »
@Divided Line
Sorry to weigh in here, but I have a PhD in Semiotics and have to acknowledge French poststructuralism has a lot to answer for giving zealous young academics overblown ideas about how something has to be meaningful to be real.
If I punch you in the head it is real regardless of your ability to comprehend or relate the story later. End of story. It’s called corporeal semantics, FWIW.
@ Macbeth I guess I don’t know enough about French poststructualism to understand what you mean by “meaningful.” If you refer to the blue pill and red pill analogy, it isn’t the end of the story. The flip side to your argument about being punched in the head is that if we all spent our entire lives as a draft horses and died that way believing we were otherwise and that women were something other than what they are, then we were never draft horses. It’s a Gettier problem. So I guess the red pill is bullshit and we can… Read more »
If it is real yet can have no possible knowable meaning, then it’s noumena. There’s no attempt to argue otherwise, at least not by me. I can’t speak for French poststructuralists.
@Divided Line I’m not sure if that’s a deliberate misunderstanding about what I was saying (this is a red pill forum after all, so it might be safe to presume that’s mostly why most of us are here)? What I think you’re arguing is an ongoing position based on the idea that reality needs some sort of consent from us to be real, and it doesn’t. (Apologies if I am also misunderstanding you). One of the difficulties poststructuralist inquiry always faces is that almost any model for analysis we can offer is metaphoric. All we can ever do is hope… Read more »
I see with great pleasure, that Gramsci and other, finer points of “really” (from an EU-perspective) left politics are discussed. The essential essay of Engels about the family was mentioned, too – good job. Of course these views are the “new normal” that no one is allowed to digress from without social punsihment in every social situation above a sport bar or behind closed doors of fraternities. Rollo’s defence of his anti-politics-stand is valid though, I think. The reason is this: Introducing politics into rationalo discussions about female behaviour quickly leads to one conclusion (even if those reaching the conclusion… Read more »
MacBeth: “Sorry to weigh in here, but I have a PhD in Semiotics and have to acknowledge French poststructuralism has a lot to answer for giving zealous young academics overblown ideas about how something has to be meaningful to be real. If I punch you in the head it is real regardless of your ability to comprehend or relate the story later. End of story. It’s called corporeal semantics, FWIW.” Yes, of course the main guys there were socialists and sickos/gays. What those being lured into this thinking don’t realize (because their profs never told them) is: Viability. Viability –… Read more »
@Macbeth
“I am only here because of a traumatic moment that opened my eyes to many of the things I’d always felt in my gut,”
Would you mind saying what that was? Curious to see if it’s familiar?
She does care, the thing is that you do not realize that. Women have learned to assess men with resources unconsciously the way we have learned to assess beauty unconsciously. If you go through life trying to find out a woman who will fuck you for the sake of it, you will die a virgin. Actually, no. Again, leaving aside issues where there are countries where more women select for resources than in other countries, in the US and in large West Europe cities like London, women are “riding the cock carousel” between 15 and at least 26, often 28-30.… Read more »
@Novaseeker
Side note Tinder is across the street from Apple.
@All
Was just looking into this
http://aimhs.com.au/cms/documents/Men,_Unemployment_and_Suicide.pdf
Employment suicide and age.
@Novaseeker I cannot give my opinion about what happens in the US as it has been 8 years since I was there for the last time. Now: 1. the AF-BB option you present is a false dilemma. Actually, money makes you “alpha” gets you laid. Why? Money = hookers and money = exciting life. Furthermore, a man who has money, is aware of his SMV and is aware of the Red Pill can get laid without turning into a provider. A guy with money can afford to do skydiving, climbing and all these cool things that make you interesting to… Read more »
And I will state this again: MONEY GETS YOU LAID AND PUTS YOU IN THE HIGHEST NEGOTIATING POSITION. A woman who does not want to fuck you is discarded and replaced with a hooker.
@Lone survivor
“Otherwise, you jack off to porn.”
Do alphas ever do that?
http://www.kinseyinstitute.org/publications/ki-pubs.html
Or is the value of semen at a higher level?
What’s your version of Alpha fux and beta bux?
@rugby11ljh
The trauma is the garden variety unexpected marriage collapse. Nothing unusual here. I am one of @rollo’s guys in his early 40s for whom the only thing worse than this collapse in my marriage and rough road to red pill redemption would be to have remained married to such a woman.
@Lone — Well, if you are not speaking about the US, then that’s probably where the disconnect lies. Rollo is in the US, as are Roissy, Roosh (both of those two are in the city where I live) and most of the “red pill” writers. AF/BB describes very well how women in the US are behaving, which is what is relevant for people who live here. Again, Tinder. As for “money = hookers”, again, as I wrote above, there is a huge qualitative difference in the sex with a woman who just wants you to bang her for the fun… Read more »
@Novaseeker What city is that? Curious @Macbeth Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee; I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain? I see thee yet, in form as palpable As this which now I draw. –Macbeth, Act II, scene i The truth will set you free… @Lone survivor What do you define as attractive in a women?… Read more »
@MacBeth – Re: My Churlish tone – I’m sick and fucking tired of Rollo dismissing how politics gets us here. And in this post he does so while opening up the dialog on politics, and so inviting political commentary. I won’t comment on politics here if he doesn’t make silly, fact-free and incorrect comments about it. Have you read the Engels essay? Care to discuss Rawls’ Veil of ignorance, the “the difference principle” or his lexical hierarchy of justice? Do you actually have any idea what I’m even talking about? Churlish indeed. You see one of the things that pisses… Read more »
@rugby
What city is that? Curious
Washington DC.
@Novaseeker
Sweet I am from their to Roissy I wonder if I can meet him and Roosh or you for that matter.
@Lone survivor
Simple to me
@Glenn
Pogo.org
I Hear you
@ Lone I don’t have money. How’d I get a couple one night stands? Literally all I did was straight up ask the first girl if she wanted a fuck buddy, and I made it explicitly clear that I didn’t want a relationship. She said “definitely” and drove over to my place within 20 minutes of me asking her. I had to do some convincing to have her come over immediately but she caved pretty quickly. The other girl I’d only met one party earlier blew me on a couch. I thought she was single. She had a boyfriend that… Read more »
@Macbeth – Ah, thanks for giving some background on your education. Okay, so then you get better than I do how the meta ideas of the left such as post-modernism and post-structuralism have intentionally been used to unmoor “social justice” from modern ideas about reason and classical liberalism utterly. You should also get how overtly and intentionally leftist activism has been collapsed with intellectual,academic, educational work and journalism. It’s considered revealed truth in such circles that an academic or an educator or a reporter is always “acting” in service to some ideology, so it’s only moral and just to pick… Read more »
@ Novaseeker Yes, the sociological context matters, I agree with you. I want to elaborate on this: “As for “money = hookers”, again, as I wrote above, there is a huge qualitative difference in the sex with a woman who just wants you to bang her for the fun of it, on the one hand, and someone who will bang you because you are paying her”. That, my friend, is the feminine imperative. Do you really believe hookers do not enjoy sex? Well, there are those who do not enjoy it, true. There are others, especially if you are young… Read more »
@Rugby
1. young women (younger than 27)
2. feminine and caring
3. thin, curved, big boobs
Simple, huh? 😀
@Softek
Have you realized that you are turning into the woman in society and women are turning into men?
@Novaseeker
I used to do online tutoring to an american girl who was from DC and was studying in Hawaii. Her words: “in DC the only thing you need to get laid is a STD test confirming that you are clean”. Needless to say she was 38 and still riding the carousel (and being asian, she looked like a 29 girl).
Yeah, perhaps Rollo could turn this blog into one about ideological brawling. Seems like a fresh idea.
Or if things are too tame here for the posters wanting red meat with their Pill, why not skip over to Roissy?
If you ask me, politics only to the level of MRA, or hell maybe not even that, please. Keep things like they are. (I’d be far more interested in a second blog about your branding experience than one about politics, actually.)
“Rollo, you’re a fuckin pussy if you don’t acknowledge the political aspect of the FI. Everything you write is worthless if you don’t address the totality of the Red Pill and how Leftists are destroying the entire world!”
Writes a post to address the underlying dynamics of Hypergamy and how it extrapolates into a meta socio-political dynamic.
“Rollo you’re a fuckin’ idiot! Let me tell you how much I know about Marx, Kant, Engels, Proudhon and Plato. Stick to fluffy shit about Hypergamy and fucking hot bitches, that’s what I come here for.”
@Lone —
Well, that”s interesting. Certainly not how things work in the US at all.
Can any other European readers confirm that in Europe, women are mostly turned on by your money and your job?
@ Glenn Leftists are wolves in sheep’s clothing. I always come back to the line: “Don’t piss down my back and tell me it’s raining.” Which is exactly what they do. There was that kid who started 3D printing guns. They confiscated all his stuff but I think he’s still making high capacity magazines if I remember right from the video I watched. With the increase in technology, people are getting pretty creative. If push comes to shove, things are going to get ugly. People can make laws but people are constantly finding new ways to break them and/or get… Read more »
Just saw the State Farm commercial – the “Never”ad that shows a man capitulating over and over – in this light, and it’s a mind blower. The formerly single guy gets molded into a husband and father in order to support the wife’s goals. Not his. I got a sense that the underlying message is, “Enjoy your captivity and make her dreams come true, and forget about your say in it,” which is really disturbing that no one I know sees that; they just think it’s an incredibly sweet Hallmark card.
@Softie – I’m having a hard time keeping up – did you say you got a fuckbuddy? Or is that a failed attempt? Either way, it’s amazing what’s possible when you take a relationship off the table… And don’t bother with the conversation “it’s all about money or not”. In fact, having wealth has both utilitarian and signaling effects in mate selection, and of course, context is decisive. It signals status and also that one is a person who can navigate life and the world successfully. Women’s attraction is complex and both status and utility factors into it. But for… Read more »
@Glenn I think we have different academic experiences rather than me understanding it better. I read Rawls during my doctorate and wasn’t taken by his stuff. I have come full circle in my thinking though, about poststructuralist and leftist academic thinking, and I stand by earlier statements that some of their work (yes Foucault was a leftie and a fag and still a genius – he taught himself German so he could read Nietzsche in the original language FFS) in the discourse field is actually what the manosphere needs to be able to pitch its solid arguments on the same… Read more »
First, this thread has turned into some amazing conversations. I wish I had time this weekend to read through it with the attention it deserves. @Divided Line “What is traditional masculinity though?” Still trying to figure that out in our modern context. “Because it also entailed being a provider draft horse. The only socially acceptable aspect of traditional masculinity that remains is the beta bux provider. It’s not as if it is an invention of the FI or feminism.” Well, first, it wasn’t ONLY about being a provider draft horse. It was about being the head of the household, the… Read more »
@BP “I also think this plays into the hysteria about rape culture. The fear is not so much about rape but about 2nd tier and lower men behaving as though they were top tier.” Powerful observation. I’ve seen this with my own eyes, the visceral distress a woman displays when a lower tier man thinks he has a shot. Not enough sexy to go around. I have a sneaking suspicion that the lack of sexy will usher in 100% state subsidised child payments, too many sexy men locked down by their ex and child payments. The progression seems to be… Read more »
@BP “I also think this plays into the hysteria about rape culture. The fear is not so much about rape but about 2nd tier and lower men behaving as though they were top tier.” Powerful observation. I’ve seen this with my own eyes, the visceral distress a woman displays when a lower tier man thinks he has a shot. Not enough sexy to go around. I have a sneaking suspicion that the lack of sexy will usher in 100% state subsidised child payments, too many sexy men locked down by their ex and child payments. The progression seems to be… Read more »
@ Glenn She did agree to be my fuckbuddy, but I ended up getting cockblocked (someone knocked on the door when I was about to fuck her and wouldn’t leave even though I told them to and kept knocking) and it really freaked her out. I thought it was a shoe-in for at least a temporary fuckbuddy but it just ended up being a ONS. This was from about a year ago when I had my first successful hookup. So she flaked on me too. High flake game, as you said — one thing I’ve braced myself for. Even when… Read more »
@DividedLine – Of course, Marx was an anti-semite and a racist, but hey go to Hitler comparisons – and don’t expect to be taken seriously forever after. Of course Marxism gained acceptance as an ideology – what, are you claiming such things do so on merit? Are you actually going to claim that the scientific socialism of Marx was a valuable ideology or not? If so, based on what fucking evidence? You see, every society that ever tried Marx’s scientific socialism/communism, from New Harmony to the Soviet Union to the Kibbutzim of Israel have failed utterly. As an aside, the… Read more »
@Glenn
Hey no offense but keep sharing your exploits I am learning.
@All
Before you folks view tha once in a lifetime fight today if you have cable do consider…
http://varsitycup.us/tickets/
@Glenn
This video got really into the red pill. As a blue pill male I thought it was just weird but equiality gender places of interest and female and male dynamics where interesting to look into especially at the end.
It’s graphic so be careful but it’s political as well because it’s somewhat true.
@Excalibur,
Is this the one you where talking about? http://www.amazon.com/Feminizing-Men-Achieve-Maximum-Feminization-ebook/dp/B00OYU8ZP4/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1430581021&sr=8-7&keywords=the+feminized+male
LOL
@Nova May I provide additional data? Yes, there is a country where both the carousel and the gold-digger profiles are highly active: Spain In large urban centres (Madrid, Barcelona) women ride the Carousel. However, and big capital letters: THEY DO IT WHEN NO ONE THEY KNOW IS WATCHING THEM. Saw that while in vacations in the Basque Country. Women from Barcelona and Madrid who where nuns in the hostel, playing hard to get and went outside the first night to get fucked by some random guy. Three of these women said they were not interested in marrying (we are talking… Read more »
@Glenn I see your argument and your frustration, but let me pose two questions: 1) Do you actually want to have political discourse (which you clearly can get elsewhere) on a site most guys don’t come to for political discourse? I mean I know this aspect of Rollo’s writing frustrates you, but for me it’s refreshing to push that out of the way and just consider what I feel are the dynamics that lie underneath the entire political and social structure. OK, you want each of us to read all the books you’ve read on the subject to even start… Read more »
@Macbeth
And for the record, Rollo’s a man. He can handle Glenn’s “churlish” tone just fine, particularly because we all know no matter what Glenn means well. You think a guy runs discussions as unmoderated as this and doesn’t expect the commenters to rough him up from time to time? Give the guy some credit for knowing what he’s setting himself up for hahahah
@Sun wukong
Politics and self improvement
factors:
He inherited a well-trained army from his father.
He was quick in both decision and action.
He was innovative and daring in battle.
He always led from the front.
He looked after his men who were fiercely loyal.
He was ruthlessness and merciless with those who opposed him.
He was politically astute: bribed and helped those needed as friends.
He understood PR very well and wrote his own history.
@Glenn I agree with your comment about Baltimore. You have a lot to say about politics. You should start your own blog and go through things chronologically regarding the left, right, front, back, centre or whatever of political thinking and how it’s affecting society today – given it’s not just the feminine imperative screwing things up. (And if you did make a blog, try and keep it simple so that everyone can grasp it as politics “appears” to be complicated enough. Having it written in a way that people can understand would be a breath of fresh air.) @Rollo How… Read more »
On second though, I’m now trying to start a show where this same commentariat can rage at me in real time. Maybe I haven’t thought this through well enough…
Politics and self improvement
Alexander the Great
Patience
Development
Preparation
Concentration
Steady Progress
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/alex/hd_alex.htm
@Lone Survivor – >>MONEY GETS YOU LAID AND PUTS YOU IN THE HIGHEST NEGOTIATING POSITION Then why, oh, why do we hear so many stories of wives of wealthy men getting caught tearing one off with the pool boy? So many of these it’s a cliche. Which one of these guys gets the hottest sex, and which one gets put off with, “I have a headache?” You are not looking at this from the POV of the female (or her genes). This is what Rollo has done for us here with this blog – he has shown us the true… Read more »
@rugby
In self improvement, most men need to understand politics as local social interactions with other individuals and the cascade of events that arise out of that. But right/left national politics? Nope. Most guys won’t be Alexander the great or play the game at that level ever.
@kyf “Rather than dogmatically argue and insist that your (ineffective) model is the only correct one, why don’t you read, ask questions, and learn from the experience of others with more of it?” That sounds like me at such a bad time in my life thanks for teaching me. @Sun Wukong Yeah your right but their is something so damn wonderful about Alexander maybe the thrill of just being able to lead that way in front of 50 000 thousand troops. Well being aware is something I can do in 2015… So much of the past is important to not… Read more »
” . . . money makes you . . ..”
. . . a “John” and a “Mark.”
“You shouldn’t pay attention to what one outcast writes in a blog, sphere or whatever, because his vision is biased.”
Exactly.
@Kyf Let’s see: “Then why, oh, why do we hear so many stories of wives of wealthy men getting caught tearing one off with the pool boy?” 1. That is what you saw in Hollywood movies. In Hollywood the nice guy steals the hottie from the football team captain, too. 2. I said “money gets you laid”, not “money buys fidelity from your woman”. Now: “Which one of these guys gets the hottest sex, and which one gets put off with, “I have a headache?”” I won’t elaborate because it would be too long. for the answer to that, read… Read more »
PS: not to mention that if you believe that women do not follow rich men rules you are clearly either naive or ignorant.
@Lone survivor
“spontaneous, fun and effortless.”
Would you consider that art? Those words put together in real life?
@Rollo
I am starting to understand the importance of what you mentioned in your early youth with your guiltar and amp. It’s all coming together.
Maybe that is what we all must do is not only perform but perform well. While women willingly give a part of them selfs in that phase.
I am stable and humble about how ignorant I am about my biological mechanics.
I am reading here that there is a debate between people who believe that money is the key to sexual relations and other who claim that body-capital is the key. There are other forms of capital than wealth or attraction, social capital (preferential treatment or nondiscrimination) and cultural capital (level of education), for instance. But, what should be addressed is the particulars of these forms of capital and how they convert into sexual interaction (fucking). How much money improves substantially one’s SMV? What kind of body type (post rigorous bodybuilding experience) improves one’s SMV? How much education increases SMV?
“I am not rich . . .”
That is obvious.
@ Lone I caution you and every eyeball reading here, not to over-estimate the ” money ” factor. If money is solely responsible for getting you laid, you my friend, are Beta Bux material. Most guys here understand that you can be broke and still get laid. Often. When I was in my 20’s, I spent the majority of my cash on guitars, my little weekend drag race car and new tools. I lived in a small attic apartment. Back then I didn’t know the term ” spinning plates “, but I was spinning a damn china cabinet. If I… Read more »
@Blaximus
” I used to start it up and put girls on the hood as I blipped the throttle. Worlds fastest vibrator.”
Ahahahahah
Man that made me laugh so hard the whole damn bus is looking at me type this. Thanks for putting that in perspective. Never down a man who is trying to better himself.
I need to remember to put myself their.
@Lone Survivor: “How to be a 3% man”
Why would I wish to lower myself?
@Fredrick Welfare: “There are other forms of capital than wealth or attraction . . .”
When I answered the question, “Who is the alpha?” with “Me,” I was not talking about myself, just as Rollo was not talking about Lambos.
@Blaximus
“I caution you and every eyeball reading here, not to over-estimate the ” money ” factor. If money is solely responsible for getting you laid”
Minute 8:01
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-IGCcSNlnk
Bye, go back to your PUA.
Where is Siirtyrion when I need him?