I’d like to address the misconception that The Spearhead is an “MRA” (Men’s Rights Activist) site. It is not, and I’d like to explain why, and to give a couple hints to activists.
First, let me explain what The Spearhead really is. It is a men’s magazine. It is a place men and interested women can visit to read about issues, news, opinion and interests that are relevant to men and the male experience in the West — the Anglosphere in particular. People can come here to inform themselves and to discuss the issues, but not to plan rallies or tactical action.
The Spearhead is cultural in nature — it aims to influence the cultural dialogue by offering the opinions and observations of ordinary men and supportive women. It also strongly encourages the participation of readers in comments and letters to the editor, which will soon become a feature.
However, we are not taking it to the street, because that is an entirely different task. Getting up close and personal is definitely important and effective, and we do not in any way discourage that, but The Spearhead WILL maintain journalistic objectivity in these matters. This is important for a couple of reasons:
Firstly, our credibility will be damaged if we are actively trying to “create news.”
Secondly, planning activism in public is stupid. It defeats the point, which is to catch people by surprise with a strong showing in front of an unsuspecting media. If you really want to make a splash, show up with dozens of loud people with signs and bullhorns when NOBODY expects it — all the cameras will be pointed straight at you.
MRA has its place, but this is not it.
We invite people to come here to participate in a discussion, and to share our experiences and thoughts, but as far as the action on the street is concerned, we are mere observers.
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Every publication in the social space has a point of view, a bias. You cannot deny this, and in defining what The Spearhead is, you should at least be honest about what point of view is being presented here. The point of view being presented here is the PUA branch of the men’s movement. I discuss this, and the alternatives, here:
http://www.the-niceguy.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=45037
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Welmer, Point understood. I do apologize for my part in the rally and activism discussion earlier today.
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No need for any apologies at all. Clarification is my job.
Nope.
Sure, we have people who represent that view here, but we also have many other viewpoints here.
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“The point of view being presented here is the PUA branch of the men’s movement.”
I second the negative submitted by Nova.
I for one am not a member of the PUAverse, as I have significant moral qualms about the practices of some of those who subscribe to that lifestyle.
Yet this place welcomes those of the PUA persuasion and dudes like myself, who is about as close to a SoCon as you can get without actually being one.
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What is “SoCon”?
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Social Conservative
” The point of view being presented here is the PUA branch of the men’s movement. ”
And not all Game is PUA. I am starting to hate that Game is so narrowly understood in this regard.
There are monogamously married people who also are students and practitioners of Game, on only their wives.
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The Fifth Horseman wrote:
“There are monogamously married people who also are students and practitioners of Game, on only their wives.”
Could you expand on this? I got married before game was invented, so I know little about it. I assumed “game” and PUA are the same thing. Women look for different things in a long term partner and a short term fling, so I don’t understand how skills used to get women for short term flings are useful for keeping them as long term partners.
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@Welmer
“Secondly, planning activism in public is stupid. It defeats the point, which is to catch people by surprise with a strong showing in front of an unsuspecting media. If you really want to make a splash, show up with dozens of loud people with signs and bullhorns when NOBODY expects it — all the cameras will be pointed straight at you.”
There won’t be ANY cameras to point straight at you if you don’t tell journos what you are up to and, if necessary, ship ‘em in and buy them drinks.
There was a demo of 20,000 pensioners in Trafalgar Square a couple of years ago, and no-one heard anything about it. No-one reported the event.
We only got to hear about it some days later because they complained about their lack of coverage to the media.
Generally speaking, when it comes to public protests, the more publicity – before, during and after the event – the better!
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“so I don’t understand how skills used to get women for short term flings”
That is not what Game is.
*sigh*. Tell you what : define for me what you believe Game is, and we will proceed from there.
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Harry, the fembots throw public parties for themselves all the time. My suggestion is to crash them — loudly.
But if you can pull 20k people together, go ahead and tell the press.
Welmer,
Thanks for the post, and I’m down with all that. My only suggestion, and this is something I really want to focus on in my work here, is to present more “how to”, positive articles for the fellas and the Women who truly love them. W/all due respect, I think the Manosphere has more than enough essays, articles, pieces and rants, about how guys are getting the shaft. Yea, yea, I dig it. And agree. Now what?
I think the Spearhead, should give a bit more thought to that “what”, and this again, is what I hope to address in my upcoming pieces.
Thanks.
The Obsidian
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I love the way this is going, masculine libertarian, macho intellectuals.
The quality writing, considered approach and the absence of foaming at the mouth partisan vitriol will assure you guys outstanding success.
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“My only suggestion, and this is something I really want to focus on in my work here, is to present more “how toâ€, positive articles for the fellas and the Women who truly love them.”
Great idea Obsidian!
We could have relationship experts, dating adverts, a Lonely Hearts column and a classified section for romantic purposes.
Even some love poetry.
Plus, some good marriage advice. What to do on your wedding day. And what is the best way to share the housework without being sexist.
We could also change the magazine title from Spearhead to Honey Pie.
Then, we just throw out the authors that we’ve got – including Welmer – and get in some new blood.
OK. Let’s cut the sarcasm.
Obisdian: The authors that we have are passionate about their subjects. They are not doing it for money. Nor is Welmer. They will write whatever they feel like writing – more or less.
Why don’t you become an author or run a blog?
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“Obisdian: The authors that we have are passionate about their subjects. They are not doing it for money. Nor is Welmer. They will write whatever they feel like writing – more or less.”
This is a description of the entire Mens Movement!
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The Spearhead is a great site !!
Great entries-and great comments !
I will be a frequent visitor for a , hopefully, long time to come…
-Count me in !!
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The Fifth Horseman wrote:
“There are monogamously married people who also are students and practitioners of Game, on only their wives.”
fschmid wrote:
“Could you expand on this?”
It’s called ‘relationship game’ in the Roissysphere.
Check out this post, it’s a must-read if there ever was one:
http://roissy.wordpress.com/2009/08/14/relationship-game-week-a-readers-journey/
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I have certain issues with the PUA philosophy. Namely, bettering yourself for the enjoyment of women.
However, As long as you don’t change yourself as a person and as long as you stay single, game on.
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when I say stay single, I mean don’t get married.
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@Ragnar October 17, 2009 at 4:09 am
Not quite.
Some of us are unabashed capitalists of the “Rand school of thought”.
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I’m really enjoying the magazine so far. Thanks for putting this together and keeping at it. The response is only going to get bigger.
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The Fifth Horseman wrote:
“*sigh*. Tell you what : define for me what you believe Game is, and we will proceed from there.”
I already wrote above “I got married before game was invented, so I know little about it.” One thing I do know about Game is that men who claim to have it treat other men with contempt, as your *sigh* illustrates.
Deansdale wrote:
“It’s called ‘relationship game’ in the Roissysphere.
Check out this post, it’s a must-read if there ever was one:
http://roissy.wordpress.com/2009/08/14/relationship-game-week-a-readers-journey/ ”
That’s more informative. So first, Game is a misunderstanding of biological terms like “alpha” and “beta” as I previously explained here:
http://mgtow.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=general&thread=653
Way back when I was single, the word “game” meant “game playing” which meant manipulating people through dishonesty. The new meaning of Game seems to combine this with some understanding of women’s nature in order to manipulate women for men’s benefit. But by the old meaning of “game”, supplication itself is a game, just a very bad game. Supplication is dishonest and produces the opposite results from what one wants. So Roissy’s article is good in the sense that it attacks supplication, a very bad game, but it is wrong in the sense that it implies that another game is needed to take its place. I have no game at all and am simply honest with my wife. This works very well with my wife, but also means that I could never get laid while single. Just because one understands how something works doesn’t mean one can do it. I understand how chickens lay eggs, but I can’t lay an egg. I understand how dancing works, but I can’t dance. I understand how flirting works, but I can’t flirt. Some things simply require a natural ability to do them. To make clear the honest approach versus the game approach, here is how I would respond to the examples from Roissy’s article:
HER: I’m hungry.
ME: Me too (if I am), where do you want to eat?
HER: I don’t know.
ME: Okay let’s eat at XYZ.
(If she knows what she wants, fine. If not, I tell her.)
HER: So tell me, is XYZ better looking than me?
ME: Only women think in terms of better or worse. Men like variety and are attracted to most women.
HER: So then why are you with me and not XYZ?
ME: Because you are mine and as long as you are faithful to me, you are worth more than the others.
HER: Where you having fun tonight?!?!
ME: I fell asleep on XYZ’s couch.
HER: You don’t come home anymore.
ME: I’m here now.
HER: Why don’t you sleep on the couch?
ME: If you don’t want to sleep together, then you go.
HER: (Does something that totally pisses me off.)
ME: (I do go ballistic and scream at her and I give her absolute hell nonstop until she apologizes. Then I forgive her and forget about it.)
HER: Do you have a mistress?
ME: I have no need for one as long as you behave.
This is honesty, not game. And it works in a long term relationship, but not for getting laid.
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Harry October 16, 2009 at 11:08 pm
“There was a demo of 20,000 pensioners in Trafalgar Square a couple of years ago, and no-one heard anything about it. No-one reported the event.”
Harry. I think all thinking men are well aware of who owns the media. If the guvment does not want it reported it will not be reported. The NYTimes reported ‘a few thousand’ the other day in Washington when it was estimated to be 2 million people. Case closed for the media. You’ve been at this, what, nearly 10 years now? Men are notoriously hard to wake up. I know that.
This is one reason why I believe in Rob Menards plan to create dejour juries. My extra spin is that I’d like to see them address crimes committed by women against men who can currently not seek redress in the corrupt legal system. Justice is something I think should be at the forefront of the thinking mans mind. Men have not been thinking much about this for too long now. In any land the justice system is critical and pivotal. We will not get justice going to the street and doing protests or even talking to people to ‘wake them up’. We will get justice when people are willing to create juries and create the law in those juries. We can’t get justice from our current court system as they have all taken an oath to the british law society. They have no interest in the common person at all.
I’d LOVE to see ‘good women’ forming juries to judge fairly and justly crimes committed by women against men. If I see one of them happen in the next 2 years I will leap for joy! Can’t be more ‘inclusive’ or challenging than that.
Whether Spearhead writes an article about it or not is up to the guys. They have allowed me much freedom this week to point out to men some of the pivotal issues of our time and that is much appreciated.
The other articles here not related to women are also interesting. Bikes, building, guns….boy toy heaven!! Because I am such a ‘pointy head’ I’d like more details but they are only a google away anyway. I am really glad female misogynist pointed me over here. It’s looking good so far.
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Fschmidt—
Game has been going on literally forever. What was done more recently was systematize it in ways appropriate for our urban western feminist culture. As well Roissy and some others but best of all Roissy, grounds it and draws insights for it from the fairly new science of evolutionary psychology.
Read this post of Roissy’s, where he collects number of Dave from Hawaii’s best long comments on Roissy’s comment threads over the last year or so:
http://roissy.wordpress.com/2009/08/14/relationship-game-week-a-readers-journey/
Read the whole comment thread as well. The combo will probably be the best marriage counseling you will ever read or otherwise receive.
This Roissy post is also a very good one on techniques that work deep into a relationship and help keep her attraction strong / rejuvenate it:
http://roissy.wordpress.com/2009/08/13/relationship-game-week-agree-and-amplify/
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Ah. I now see Deansdate beat me to my first Roissy relationship game week link.
That one truly is a must read though. Lots of good comments in the thread to it too.
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Welmer-
Protest all you like my friend, but I’m not moving the Spearhead from it’s spot high up in my Game-Men’s Rights category in Google Reader. Roissy is under something else. There’s also a Game-PUA Only one. Then again I have Maxim under Game-Hotties.
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Well, I’m certainly not going to complain about that.
But it would be nice if we could get a weekly hotty to pose for a picture.
“positive articles for the fellas and the Women who truly love them.”
“No man has greater love than he who lays down his life for his friend”…a little book called the bible.
I look in the history books and I can find no examples where women, in large numbers, repeatedly, sacrifice their lives for their men and children. (Of course with men it’s all over the place.)
In all my study of relationships and the dynamics of human society I can find no evidence AT ALL that women EVER loved men. I can only find evidence that women loved what men could provide. I’ve even had eastern woman confirm this to me. ‘Love’ is a very recent concept as the basis for marriage. Women used to marry based on economic need. They were too weak to do most jobs.
By the way. ‘Love’ is an Illuminati mind control device to get men to sacrifice their life for the women and children. It does not exist except in your mind. This is the ONE thing one which I am very skeptical with about David Icke.
As far as GAME goes. Guys have been doing this for ages. I saw this with the ‘high alphas’ like the footballers I knew. I used to think they were really horrible to women but they knew the GAME and knew how to get what they wanted, laid. Alphas know that women have no value at all and that is why they treat them like that. The more the alphas tell them they are ‘no one special’ the more the women try to prove they are. I use this myself now. When I was a young man I was not looking to get laid by a series of sluts. I was looking for my wife. 23 years later getting laid by a succession of very willing women is just fine by me. I make Shallow Hal look like the mariana trench. LOL!
The problem women have is that they are drawn to alphas who will treat them badly. They ignore the betas…even high betas like me. That is why I refused to show interest in women. I wanted all the ‘loose women’ to pass me over. They, after man rejections, you’ve heard all the women bitch about all the ‘playes’ and ‘liars’, when they realise their eggs are getting old and that the betas will ‘provide’ they latch onto a beta and tell him they ‘love’ him and us betas are stupid enough to believe it. We are so stupid…really we are.
Then the woman continues to lust after the alphas and generally crushes the beta for not being an alpha for the next 20 years finally leaving him in disgust and dis-respect for not being ‘a real man’ and ‘earning enough money’. THAT my friends, is what is happening. Freed from the permanent bonds of marriage women lust after the 10% of alphas while 90% of men are betas and less. And acting like an alpha well enough to fool a woman is childs play.
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Globalman
A lot of truth in your post at 6.13.
I know very few married women indeed who seem to love their husbands very much – if at all.
They seem to use them like workhorses.
Maybe they loved them for a few years, but not for much longer.
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I got married before game was invented, so I know little about it.â€
Mistake #1. When do you think ‘Game was invented’?
One thing I do know about Game is that men who claim to have it treat other men with contempt,
Only men who talk about Game without knowing what it is. And it is ridicule, not contempt.
Just because one understands how something works doesn’t mean one can do it.
Game weeds out people who can’t really take difficult actions.
To make clear the honest approach versus the game approach,
Mistake #3. Game is not dishonest at all. Game is not something you do, it is someone you become.
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I second the negative submitted by Nova.
I third it. Everyone knows I’m not a member of the “PUAverse”. More importantly game is larger than just PUA, but this isn’t a game only site either.
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Game is not something you do, it is someone you become.
Absolutely right. So much of game is nothing more than effective masculinity.
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If this is not an openly activist site, I’m confused by the name “Spearhead”. To me that implied the front lines of the battlefield. The part of the weapon that actually inflicts harm. The advance guard in the battle.
spear⋅head  /ˈspɪərˌhɛd/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [speer-hed] Show IPA
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–noun 1. the sharp-pointed head that forms the piercing end of a spear.
2. any person, contingent, or force that leads an attack, undertaking, etc.
–verb (used with object) 3. to act as a spearhead for: She spearheaded the drive for new members.
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Origin:
1350–1400; ME; see spear 1 , head
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3. lead, start, initiate, pioneer.
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I guess one way to distinguish between an activism-site vs. awareness-site, is that the latter is more focused on strategy. Th former is more tactical. Kind of like the The Economist vs. an investment-newsletter (like Jim Cramer’s Real Money website). The Economist talks about overall trends, but never makes any buy/sell/hold recommendations. The latter type of publications do that.
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@Jabherwochie
Good points about the definition, Jabherwockie, but we’re on the front lines of the cultural battle — we’re really trying to break through the ideological/PC shield with our voice. The street battles and court battles are different things, and we’re glad to report on them, but have to maintain some tactical distance.
For example, fathers4justice has done some amazing things to bring awareness to issues in the UK, but their approach – effective as it is – is fundamentally different from ours.
Yep, this is the key.
Guys, look — there is a lot that needs doing. Guys who are focused on the court battles are doing a great job, as are those who are focused on activism, or focused on self-help and so on. This place is about waging cultural warfare on the intellectual and verbal level — raising awareness, countering PC and so on.
We ought not elevate one of these tasks above the others — there is a lot that needs doing. But this place is focused on one of the tasks, and not the others. It works better that way, in my opinion.
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Novaseeker
“this place is about waging cultural warfare on the intellectual and verbal level-raising awareness, countering PC and so on”
-And should remain as such.
Changing the publics view on a large number of equality-items by using people own stories, will have a far greater impact, over time, and you get a lot more attention, by using honey, than you get when you try to cram it down peoples throat!
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And this is exactly what I was getting at with my post about Hegelian Dialectic and Social change.
Technology, particularly the internet, has totally changed the game. For the first time in history, the elites do not control the information flow and what ideas are permissible to express. Men now have the opportunity to seize control of the dialectic by no longer being forced to choose between two alternatives handed to us by the elites – both of which are to their benefit. We now have the chance to offer up our own alternative of “none of the above” and go toe-to-toe with the PTB promoting our memes to general public.
The entire idea of political activism strands men within the dialectic. There is no reason we should have to petition a government to “give us back our rights” when they had no legitimate authority to take them away in the first place.
The real goal is to free men entirely from the two choices offered now – traditionalism or feminism – and truly let men GO THEIR OWN WAY, which by definition will be individually chosen.
When someone starts yammering at us about what we “should” be doing, we can respond in the spirit of Μολὼν λαβΠand say –
Come make us.
I agree with Harry that the men’s “something” is going to be huge. But, I don’t think it is going to end up being any sort of “movement.” I think what we are seeing and will see is a fundamental change and growth of a new sort of men’s consciousness.
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Yes, yes and yes.
And I love seeing Plutarch quoted at The Spearhead.
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British : You dirty colonials “should” be paying your taxes to the King’s government!
American Founding Fathers: Come make us.
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Family Courts: You “should” be paying alimony to your cheating ex-wives.
Aware Men: Come make us.
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… of course the latter is best accomplished by not getting married in the first place, and beckoning other men to do the same.
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Zed
Individuality ???
Oh, my gosh !!! NO, NO, NO, That won´t do..!!!!
Makes it soooo hard to control people…
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fschmidt,
You still have an extremely incomplete grasp of what Game is (as does Asher). If people known to be Game luminaries are correcting you on this, your pushing back is lame. What you should be doing is working to correct the gaps in your knowledge, and see what you can use to your benefit.
This vested interest in mischaracterizing Game is really just an unwillingness to admit that your circumstances are more in your control than you want to acknowledge.
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