One idea I’ve seen put forth by a few female commenters on The Spearhead is that if only men were wise enough to choose “the right woman” they could avoid the catastrophes that so often afflict them in marriage and divorce. There is probably an element of truth to this, but as with so many cure-alls, it is missing the bigger picture.
First, we should ask what is the “right woman?” If we are to take a woman’s opinion, she is intelligent, educated, independent, self-confident, capable, attractive and in control. How do I know this? Because this is how women are always portrayed in media designed to appeal to them, and we know it works, because women consume a great deal of material that is designed to cast them in that light.
If we were to ask a man, we’d get a significantly different ideal. Men – at least most of them – want women who are pretty, kind, caring, not stupid, modest and helpful. Not opposite, but a pretty big difference from what women think of as the ideal woman. A couple of these qualities are mutually exclusive, such as self-confident and modest, and others, such as in control and helpful, are quite different from each other. Even pretty and attractive are distinctly different concepts; attractive suggests the kind of woman who gets a lot of looks on the street, while pretty describes the girl who gives a man a feeling of a more privately shared desire. Finally, there is a pretty big difference between not stupid and intelligent: studies have shown that the more intelligent women are than average, the less likely men are to marry them.
Obviously, not all guys want the same thing, and fortunately human diversity does a great job of offering plenty of options. However, there is a looming archetype that casts a shadow over relationships between men and women in our culture, and it does a great deal of damage to the real partnerships that men and women create. This archetype is a product of the darker aspects of femininity — the drive for social dominance in particular.
Men are often unaware of the brutally competitive nature of women, who are far more conscious of social hierarchy than men. Men create hierarchies in order to get things done; they recognize that abilities and talents differ, and that each man therefore has a different place. They choose their leaders for qualities such as courage, charisma and righteousness. As Jack Donovan recently pointed out, men follow those they admire for their inherent qualities, and then they grace them with external honors. With women, this is inverted: women tend to view the inherent qualities as products of the external honors. The queen is superior because of her crown, and the prince more desirable because of his castle and fine steed. Men can only understand the appeal that a fairy tale such as Cinderella holds for women on an intellectual level after a good deal of life experience; for women the story hits them at a visceral level that they can feel from a very young age. The poor stepdaughter is scorned by by her privileged stepsisters until her fairy godmother comes to the rescue, and suddenly she is surrounded by finery and assumes social superiority over all other women. For boys, it is internal qualities, such as super powers, that allow them to rise above. As we know, most superheroes are ordinary guys when off the job, and refrain from using their powers in a social context. This is a profound difference.
It is this difference that makes women better consumers than men, and in our consumerist society the cultural emphasis has naturally shifted toward encouraging consumption by the most effective means. In the case of women, this is an appeal to the most basic components of the desire for elevated social status. Being a consumer is about more than simply buying things; it is also about buying into things. We all know that women account for the vast bulk of consumer spending in the West, but there is a reason they are coming to dominate university enrollment and high status professional jobs as well. For years, the message that having a degree or a job as, say, a doctor, confers social superiority has been rammed down people’s throats through popular entertainment. Men have long known that being a physician is a lucrative job, and quite a few have been attracted to the profession for that reason among others, but few boys become doctors because they idolized the hunks in white coats who so often appear in soap operas and TV dramas. For a woman, however, making the rounds and declaring herself a doctor at social events is a satisfying exercise. Likewise, boasting about her degree from a good school is a great pleasure. The social credit she gets from these honors is a reward in and of itself.
Women’s natural focus on social hierarchy combined with their overrepresentation as consumers has inexorably pushed us toward a more socially hierarchical society that is alien to most men. In a way, we are living in a world that increasingly reflects daytime soap operas, and many boys and men simply don’t understand the logic of this new society. It truly has become a woman’s world, and the characteristics that men find attractive in women simply aren’t relevant to it. In this world, a woman who wants to achieve her natural, instinctive goals will have to adopt a persona that is inherently unattractive to men. A woman of inherent quality and capability, therefore, will often be more repellent to men than a rather unremarkable girl, because her very ability to fulfill her desires will lead her to resemble an archetype that makes her a poor choice for a mate. This probably explains why highly intelligent women find it so much more difficult to find a mate than their dimmer sisters.
Most men are thus left with a difficult choice: either partner with a woman of inherent quality who has become unappealing because of her ability, or settle with a second-rate woman who has not only because she lacks the wherewithal. Neither choice is likely to lead to happiness.
We have created a society that virtually precludes girls from becoming the “right woman.” Few men in my generation will have the opportunity to find the right woman, and most of those who manage to make it through with an intact marriage probably won’t ever know what such a woman is. Perhaps that is for the better; what good could it possibly do them to know what women were like before the great cultural shift of the late 20th century?
Perhaps the most tragic thing about this is that the few women who really are the right women for men, those scattered renegades of their sex, are the ones most likely to suffer at the hands of dominant women. They are the real Cinderellas in a world dominated by evil stepmothers and stepsisters. Perhaps the old fairy tale is the best metaphor for our modern society: the gracious diligent woman is consigned to the ashy hearth while the harridan and her ungainly brood rule the roost.
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“””Perhaps the most tragic thing about this is that the few women who really are the right women for men, those scattered renegades of their sex, are the ones most likely to suffer at the hands of dominant women. They are the real Cinderellas in a world dominated by evil stepmothers and stepsisters. Perhaps the old fairy tale is the best metaphor for our modern society: the gracious diligent woman is consigned to the ashy hearth while the harridan and her ungainly brood rule the roost.”””
I wept – NOT.
They all still get by better then their respective male counterparts. Therefore i fail to see the “tragedy”.
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Don’t you think it’s a tragedy for us men?
Women want these things, as you said, because it gives them…. or more accurately they are told it gives them, social status. Or more value with men. Not because they have an ‘innate’ desire for most of these things. (Besides buying things, I’m sure that’s innate)
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I find this to be a universal truth with women. ….. The concept of marriage seems to be more important than the man they are marrying. Going to the movies alone is a no no, women need a companion when seen out. The big prom dance is upmost and getting the boyfriend or some guy guy to go is secondary. Concepts, many material, validate women.
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The thing is women have seen men in the past becoming doctors / lawyers and it earning them a great deal of respect and status. This has lead women to want to do those things in order to archive the same status. The thing is, I don’t think it works like that. The things that given women status are different than the things that give men status. Men are judged by their ability to provide, for example, but women are not. Therefore taking over these professions has probably not given women what they were looking for. I’m guessing this is why some recent studies are showing that women are becoming increasingly unhappy.
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“First, we should ask what is the “right woman?†If we are to take a woman’s opinion, she is intelligent, educated, independent, self-confident, capable, attractive and in control. [...] If we were to ask a man, we’d get a significantly different ideal. Men – at least most of them – want women who are pretty, kind, caring, not stupid, modest and helpful.”
Thanks for this. You hit the nail on the head.
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I am sorry Welmer but I only read the fist sentence of your article. Although I am certain you have good things to say I am certain where I stand. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS THE RIGHT WOMAN. Hope will will forgive the caps but I was shouting.
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There’s very few marriageable women left in the Anglosphere, that’s for sure. I think the university thing is good though – these stupid women rack up massive student debt, then fail to get a real job, then (post-2009) fail to get a public sector consolation prize – and the dream of self sufficiency comes to a crashing halt. As enough fail maybe the folly will gradually seep into popular culture.
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lol. I can assure you, Paul, there’s no push for conversion in the piece.
I thought I had chosen the right woman – pretty, modest, caring, having the same values as me with regards to raising a family, good with money, apparently unconcerned with social status, all round pleasant to be with.
When we met she actually thought I was poor because I lived in a tiny apartment with just a few rubbish bits of furniture (apartments were bloody hard to find and I took the first one that came up – including the furniture left behind by the previous tenant) and I was so relieved to find someone who liked me rather than my money.
None of these things stopped her running away when the “gina tingle” happened for another man. I now realise that there is no such thing as the “right woman”.
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” The things that given women status are different than the things that give men status. Men are judged by their ability to provide, for example, but women are not. Therefore taking over these professions has probably not given women what they were looking for. I’m guessing this is why some recent studies are showing that women are becoming increasingly unhappy.”
I think that you make a very good point Robin.
Men are the providers, women are the nurturers. It was ever thus.
The natural order has been altered… To our detriment.
“In marriage a distinct society is formed – the family – and this society needs hierarchy, and so God put in it the symbol of our submission by making the man head of the family and the woman his companion.
Feminism is bent to destroy that order and hierarchy, and so will try to replace it in society in order to be able to change it in the marriage. So first it will ask for “equality” in the society, telling us that both men and women are fitted to do anything. In order to foster that, it will give the example of the exceptions, and generalize it to all men and women. That step is mostly completed today, and you see the mess in which it has put our society. Incapable people get positions only because we cannot discriminate. This last word has become a bad word, while in fact it means to choose the best and let go of what is useless for the task at hand. I discriminate when I choose a hammer instead of a screwdriver to drive nails in a board. This concept is at the bottom of any organized society, and even today, in spite of the words, discrimination is still used. If not, it would be chaos.
Feminism will also try to destroy the order in marriage, by putting both partners equal in everything. It is true that husband and wife are equal in regard to the contract of marriage and so in regard to the marriage act, but the husband is the head of the family created by the contract, and so there is inequality. Inequality doesn’t mean oppression and slavery, it means a different place in the hierarchy of things. As St. Paul said, the sanctification of the wife is in motherhood, in having the stronger hand in the raising of children, while the man dedicates his life for his wife by working and providing for her and their children the means of life. It is sure that the wife can help in the income of the family and that the father will have to do something in the education of children, but they are not interchangeable. We would need another sermon to explain in detail the duties of both husband and wife.
After having destroyed the natural order, feminism will be able to implement a new order of things. It is here that the problem of feminism becomes visible, as it becomes quite divided. Some will be very radical, and will try to consider women the only good persons of society and promote the demotion of men; but all the flavours of feminine empowerment, and by a contrary reaction, all the flavours of male “liberation” will try to win the favour of the crowd. This is the chaos that we live in, and in fact, we can say that feminism is at the root of all the other “liberations” that are destroying society today, as the rights for homosexuality, pedophilea, etc. ”
Father Jules Belisle.
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“THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS THE RIGHT WOMAN. ” —Paul
Nailed it.
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The right woman????
Perhaps. Maybe there is such a thing, but on a temporary basis only.Or for a specific occasion or set of occasions.
A woman might be the right one for you for a little while, but if you linger on in the relationship, that magic will wilt and die.
The “right” woman is mostly a myth. However, some of them, sometimes, can display such qualities but it’s fleeting, like a perfume in the air.
Then, everything is back to normal again: grey, drab and sad.
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Brilliant analysis, Welmer! There is so much I wish to say in response, but here are a few words on biological determinism.
All human behavioral traits exist because they have a favorable effect on the probability of successful reproduction. We are but gene machines, after all, so how could it not be so? (Creationists may leave the room).
Geneticists tell us that our human ancestors are two thirds female, one third male. Think about that. Our biological heritage is one of a majority of women (80%) having children, but of only a minority of men (40%) becoming fathers.
I am sorry to say that the behavior we see now in Western countries is probably the purest expression of the nature of women and of men. We are a large ape pack, living in a time of great abundance of resources and an absence of predators. The genetic reproductive program we are currently running entails maximum competition in both genders. I suggest that the kind of orderly, respectful pairing of men and women that some of us (think they) remember is an aberration, not the norm, in human affairs.
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Finding ‘the right woman’ in the anglosphere is a good analogy for winning the lottery. I have been proposed to many times and accepted thrice by some very conniving women (the last could have won an academy award). Don’t do it. In every case, I was the one who filed (I know that doesn’t follow the norm), but I just couldn’t stand it anymore. The last one I claim temporary insanity as I was taking care of my mom who was dying and she became very close to her. Listening to my mom was a huge mistake. Even after cutting the cords, she’s still attempting to reinstall her hooks in me. Nada is right–and even there I will never do the matrimony thing. I give women I’m dating one chance with the “m” word. If it ever comes up again, I break it immediately.
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@KF
“Men are the providers, women are the nurturers. It was ever thus.
The natural order has been altered… To our detriment.
“In marriage a distinct society is formed – the family – and this society needs hierarchy, and so God put in it the symbol of our submission by making the man head of the family and the woman his companion. ”
Kathy, this is a very old, very antiquated idea. Rome has fallen since then…
And when you say that God…bla bla bla… where did you pick that notion?
God has nothing to do with puny humans… come on!
God doesn’t give a shit about humans and rightly so: why should our particular species of monkeys draw God’s attention??????
There is no right or wrong way to live: “Do as thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law”
The New Law is the Law of unlimited individual freedom.
We must move away from the herd mentality that cripples our brain and start living each for his/her own benefit. All else is academic, unimportant.
In that sense, feminism has been a beacon of light, whatever we think of feminism.
Free yourselves from the dictates of society. Nobody owes society a thing: the reverse is true.
Vive la liberte illimitee. I tolerate no limit to my freedom.
I am for unlimited freedom. Caring, nurturing, providing: all these things will curb and take away your freedom. We live only ONCE. Live your lives to the hilt and quit worrying about family, marriage and all other crap presented to us. The idea of family has been put forward as a way to enslave men. At least, recognize that feminism has had this genius idea to kill marriage. (may the beast rest in peace forever)
CARPE DIEM BIG TIME!!!! and…. ….. ….PARTY TIME!!!!!!!!
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Posts like these are the reason why I love this site.
Keep them coming, you guys are awesome!
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Rebel
“Vive la liberte illimitee. I tolerate no limit to my freedom.
I am for unlimited freedom. Caring, nurturing, providing: all these things will curb and take away your freedom. We live only ONCE. Live your lives to the hilt and quit worrying about family, marriage and all other crap presented to us. The idea of family has been put forward as a way to enslave men. At least, recognize that feminism has had this genius idea to kill marriage. (may the beast rest in peace forever)”
I could not agree more (from actual experience with the beast). Excellent.
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Paul: “THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS THE RIGHT WOMAN.”
You should consult a dictionary. Rarity is not synonymous with nonexistence.
And wait a minute: I was assured by several people that no PUA/MRA will ever be caught dead making a blanket statement regarding all women. What’s going on?
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I know it’s hard for you to understand a place where we don’t enforce politically correct norms through fascist means, null, but perhaps someday you will get used to allowing people to freely express themselves.
However, allow me to be more precise:
You are objecting to the use of “all”, and generalizations, to characterize things. I am going to tell you something very important if this is true:
Never communicate with anyone again. Ever.
Everyone does it; it is common on both sides of this debate, as well as all others. You might as well go outside and yell at the sky for being blue. It isn’t going to change, and you don’t have any control over it. So you can either rant, incessantly, and have people ignore you for being one of the fringe lunatics, or you can just laugh and move on with your life when it happens, and only call people on either the most egregious uses, or the times when they do it in what should be otherwise perfectly precise works (such as research studies where, sadly, I can assure you it still happens pretty fucking often).
It’s also incredibly intellectually dishonest that you only call out people who offend you on this – everyone is doing it, but I don’t see equal application of your outrage. You are behaving as if you are a hypocrite, a front-runner, and a liar.
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I have experienced two seismic shifts in my awareness during my life. The first was when I realized that the West, northern European white civilization, was not different to any other civilization, and will fall. The second was when I grasped the true nature of women.
(Most) women have no future time orientation. They are not concerned with the abstract (to them) future consequences of current actions, no matter how negative. They are coldly pragmatic, live in the moment and will support any action that benefits them today. They are actually incapable, in a true neurological sense – they do not have the brain wiring – to understand the male requirement for external logical consistency. While men see themselves as actors in a Newtonian world of actions and consequences, women visualize themselves at the center of a reality that exists to be constantly manipulated to their advantage. The fact that men will subordinate their interests to that of the group for altruistic reasons is to women only a weakness to be exploited. I make no moral point. Things are as they are. It is important to recognize reality.
Western women will continue to behave in the way they are currently behaving until it is no longer in their interest to do so. Men must internalize this truth and act accordingly.
Years ago, as a British Army Officer, I was in Kenya training British soldiers in tropical warfare. At a lodge on Lake Naivasha I was approached by two young Canadian women, in their mid to late-twenties perhaps, four or five years older than me. They told me they were making a tour of the game parks in Kenya, just the two of them in a 4×4 with a black Kenyan guide. They were frightened, physically afraid. They told me that their Kenyan guide had been making sexual advances that were becoming increasingly aggressive. They asked me to help them. So I did. I took the guy outside, into the dark. I don’t remember exactly what I said, but he got the message that this behavior would stop, immediately, and that if it did not there would be consequences. I went back into the lodge, sat down with the two Canadian women and entertained them for a couple of hours, after which they invited me to join them in their cabin. I am sorry to tell you that I declined their invitation. What can I say? I was young, chivalrous and in love with my girlfriend back in London. But this is reality. Violence or the threat to do violence on my part was rewarded with (an offer of) sex. Western women will not change en masse until they are afraid, until they feel an immediate threat to their safety, to their survival.
Feminism will die only when the same circumstances exist that have suppressed female autonomy in other dying civilizations. That is, when the authorities can no longer maintain law and order, when the streets are ruled by armed gangs, when women can no longer walk alone without being assaulted. It is hard to imagine this circumstance occurring in Western countries, but it will.
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I would like to take that a couple of steps further and spin out a couple of my favorite “out there” theories about what is going down.
Every natural population has feedback mechanisms built into it. Take, for example, the populations of coyotes and rabbits. As the population of rabbits increases, so does the population of one of their primary predator species – the coyote. An increase in food supply allows an increase in population as more marginal members of the species are able to survive and not succumb to hunger or disease due to lack of adequate food.
However, if the predator population grows too large and begins to put too much downward pressure on the prey population and their numbers fall, the general health and survival of the predator population will then fall. The cycle continues over and over passing a theoretical average balance point again and again.
In times of surplus, a greater percentage of marginal males get to breed. The “aggregrate average aggression index” of the pack drifts down slightly as the greater number of surviving females give chances for slightly less agressive males to have offspring. As the numbers of the pack grow, pressure on the food supply increases and food begins to get scarce. The most aggressive members of the pack have a survival advantage, and the females who have restricted their mating to the most aggressive males have the greatest chance of their offspring surviving and being represented in the genetic pool of the pack.
Thus, there is a constant culling process going on. The genetic lineage for aggression gets carried on generation after generation, with periods of relative surplus allowing for greater genetic variety in case one of the mutations proves to be adaptive. The relative surplus is followed by relative scarcity to kill off the weak.
I’m not interested in debating the morality or the benefits to civilization of allowing less agressive males to breed. I agree with those positions, however at the same time I realize how difficult it is to maintain enforcement mechanisms which will contain people’s animal natures.
I’ve believed for several years now that the behavior we see among women is a completely instinctive reaction to increased competition for resources – in short, they are building better predators which give their genes a better chance of surviving through a coming period of greatly increased resource competition.
This is a direct result of the historic practices which have allowed less aggressive males to breed. I never quite figured out the unbelievable passivity of western men for the past half century or so until I put together the fact that 2 major wars in the first part of the century tended to cull out the most aggressive males leaving the less aggressive ones with more breeding chances. I think we human coyotes are in the stage of the cycle where the suplus is ending and the genetic shift away from the passivity of the past half century toward a more aggressive standard model of men is well underway.
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Not at all, really.
The factors that create the current situation are not in the least “natural” but rather are artificial. Namely — legal/cheap/effective birth control and abortion, laws permitting women to obtain resources from men without sexual commitment to them (via “no-fault” divorce or state-mandated redistribution of resources from male taxpayers to female mothers), laws excluding the use of male violence to enforce male prerogatives and so on.
In the state of nature, women do not fuck any alpha male they choose, because they have no easy/safe access to abortion, contraception and so on, and no right to support from such alpha or from the collective tribe due to her whoring around. Men demand sexual loyalty in the state of nature due to concerns about paternity, and can enforce that loyalty by the real threat of deadly violence, which is not proscribed in the state of nature, either. Homo sapiens is a pair bonding species and has been for a long, long time. This can be more or less dated from the time that the sexual dimorphism (i.e., size differential) between male and female humans shrank substantially in comparison to other primates, such as gorillas, who have a high degree of dimorphism due to intra-male violent competition to monopolize mating — suggesting strongly that around this time we shifted, as a species, to pair bonds. Of course, both males and females have always had incentives to cheat the pair bonds for personal ends, due to their different mating strategies. But the underlying nature is pair bonding. The reason why so many fewer men reproduced than women isn’t because women were riding the carousel of alpha cocks, but rather because men were dying at higher rates than women (tribal warfare, death on the job (hunting, other dangerous work reserved to men) and disease (which also disproportionately impacts males, in relative terms)). So there was some polygamy as well, so that all the women could be utilized for mating, due to a relative shortage of men. But the overall trend was pair bonding.
In order to upset that state of affairs you need both to (1) get rid of the natural consequences of sexuality for women and (2) permit women to obtain access to parenting-related resources without committing to sexual loyalty by means of laws permitting women to obtain this support under almost all circumstances. Neither of these is “natural” or what obtains in the state of nature for our species. They come from technological changes and legal changes that have very artificially boosted the “natural” position of women while lowering the “natural” position of men. What we see now, therefore, is far removed from the “natural” way of mating for our species, and is instead the product of technologies and legal benefits and restrictions that place rather large thumbs on the scale. In the state of nature, women are corralled into pair bonds and the “excess” women (due to higher male attrition rates) are made into second and third wives for the few men who can afford them. Women are not picking and choosing the alpha males to have sex with in the state of nature and bouncing from one of their beds to another because the overall levels of male violence were high and relatively unregulated, and this behavior, which undermines male paternity, was punished with severe violence — often by the woman’s own family. So the idea that the current state of play is “natural” is inaccurate. It is highly artificial.
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Back in the early seventies, I had read about a very special experiment in “Scientific American”
They put a few rats in a cage: equal number of males/ females, plenty of food and space (inside the cage).
Soon, the population rose and the cage became completely filled with rats.
Then something happened (not feminism,but close):
Females became more and more aggressive with males and most males turned gay.
The rat population went from packed tight to ….. zero.
Is this what is happening to humans?
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There are what I consider a couple of fundamental problems with the concept of “the right woman.” The first is the problem of the object which I dealt with in this post – http://www.the-spearhead.com/2009/11/02/the-art-of-loving/
“If you had just done a better job of picking THE correct object, your life would be fine.” There is one aspect in which this is true, but it requires moving beyond the way we normally think of objects with attributes and beginning to think in terms of skill sets.
If I am seeking a “partner” in a business enterprise, I am going to look for certain skill sets which are likely to contribute to the success of the enterprise. For example, if I have an idea for a business but lack experience with financial management, I might seek out a partner with a background in that area. Or, if I am a bean counter type who has an idea for a widget that I think people will go gaga over, but I have no experience in manufacturing, I might look for someone with production experience.
What I am looking for is a skill set which complements my own, not duplicates it. Two bean counters with no production experience would probably never be able to get a product out the door. And, two shop foremen who know how to get’r done, may lack the financial skills necessary to keep the raw materials flowing in and the finished product being distributed so the cash flows back to pay the suppliers and make payroll.
So, instead of looking for a particular “object” out of potenially thousands that we might encounter, which has all the “attributes” we want, it makes more sense to look for certain skill sets which contribute to the success of the enterprise but we personally lack.
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@Novaseeker
The topic of evolutionary biology is so complex that there is plenty of room for two apparently contradictory positions to both be correct.
I present an important piece of empirical evidence. Take a look at the shape of the end of your dick. Now tell me why the statement that “humans are a pair-bonding species” is, at a minimum, overly simplistic.
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I am so with you on this Zed, except I propose that in a human society it is the strong, productive ones who are weeded out and the weaklings breed so that their offspring can die off and thus reduce the population numbers.
Maybe I am just trying to soften the blow to my ego eh?
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Charles Martel,
are you talking about this :
There is some evolutionary evidence that the human penis evolved as a mechanism to displace sperm(1). By using the coronal ridge to create a suction mechanism, the penis is able to remove sperm already deposited in the female’s reproductive tract. This is significant because it would imply that females are not monogamous, otherwise sperm displacement would be useless, because only one male’s sperm would be present.
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/42665/penis_evolution_intersexual_and_intrasexual.html
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As I say, both males and females have an incentive to cheat the pair bond — no doubt about that. And that’s why things like that have evolved the way they have, at least in part. But if the state of nature for homo sapiens was a sexual free for all, the size differential between male and female humans would be much higher — more like it is in gorillas. And in any case, either way I don’t think it can be plausibly argued that the current state of play is any meaningful sense natural, being propped up as it is by all kinds of scientific advances and a bundle of legal benefits for women and legal restrictions on male violence. A true state of nature has women being beaten or worse for behaving as they do today.
Indeed, neither women nor men are “naturally 100% mongamous”. Each is incented to cheat the pair bond in different ways, and each has evolved ways to combat that cheating of the pair bond. Both Matt Ridley and Robin Baker have pointed this out, with Baker noting, probably rightly in my view, that women seem to have ended up slightly ahead of males in terms of the evolutionary adaptation race. Non-monogamy, de facto, is the norm behaviorally. But pair bonding was also the norm. So what it was, in fact, was pair bonding PLUS opportunistic cheating on the pair bond. For women this involved evolving behaviors which made it easier for them to hide fertility, and a particularly keen social sense which makes it easier for women to hide affairs, even today, than for men. So, yes, cheating has always happened, but there were still pair bonds. Women have evolved to have their cake and eat it, too, by namely (1) securing the best male they can for a commitment to parenting resources while (2) reserving the ability to, if the situation presents itself, obtain purely superior genetics from the best man who will supply that DNA to her — in other words, wired for opportunistic cuckolding. But the key is that it is not a free for all like it is today — the women are incented to both get the stable parenting resources from the reliable “Dad” and the hot DNA from the apex “Cad”. It’s a both/and thing. And that has always been the case. But it was never, until very recently, a case of women slutting around with reckless abandon, knowing they can fall back on abortion if needed, that they are protected from any male violence relating to this behavior, and that they can even force their “Dad” husbands to suck up the results of her cuckolding in the family courts –> all of that is artificial, and enhances merely the worst aspects of female nature, magnifying them and blowing them up beyond all proportionality by removing the very natural checks on that kind of behavior by women.
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Back in the 80s I remember a brief flap about bright teenage girls “dumbing down” in school in order to attract boys. Maybe they were on to something.
Charles Martel: You are absolutely right, but you left out one important point. Feminists are quite aware of everything you’ve said, but they regard all these developments as features and not bugs. Until this changes (by whatever means necessary to change it), expect more of the same.
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@Novaseeker
Yes. Please excuse the somewhat crude nature of my last post. I am not trying to be adversarial. I enjoy what you write but I do not have the time right now to create an appropriately thorough response to your last long post, which I agree with in most respects. I will make the general point that it can be difficult to separate the effects of the cultural overlay of the last 10,000 years (or perhaps as much as 40 or 50,000 years) from the effects of the raw genetic programming that preceded it.
Nevertheless, I think we are substantially in agreement. For example, involuntary child support and alimony are nothing more than the contemporary equivalent of year-round readily available ripe fruit on the African savannah (abundant resources), allowing females to feed themselves without the need to solicit beta male assistance.
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@Charles –
That’s fine. I think we do have a slight disagreement — e.g., I think females always needed protection of males from other males (males of other tribes), and probably the price for that protection was, at least in part, an assurance of paternity, and that breaking those assurances of paternity resulted, as a matter of course, in male violence against the woman in question. Also, I doubt that the protein needed for human growth was ever in abundance without the provision of the same by men. However, it’s also true that none of this is “hard” science, either — it’s speculation based on reading the tea leaves we have available. I myself do not think that the current technological and legal regimes recreate a state of nature environment, because they appear rather artificial to me, but I can appreciate how others may disagree.
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I think what you and Charles Martel are talking about are slightly different things, Nova. His specific statement was that we were seeing an expression of men’s and women’s natures, not that our current environment was “natural.”
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I think Novaseeker is on the money, and that’s a good exchange there.
Zed, business partnerships work because contract law is enforced for both sides.
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First, we should ask what is the “right woman?†If we are to take a woman’s opinion, she is intelligent, educated, independent, self-confident, capable, attractive and in control… If we were to ask a man, we’d get a significantly different ideal. Men – at least most of them – want women who are pretty, kind, caring, not stupid, modest and helpful.
I must be lucky. My wife is all of the latter, and a good number of the former.
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This is probably one of the only posts of yours I’ve ever read on this site or others which I believe is largely off base regarding its conclusions. Novaseeker did an excellent job analytically refuting much of it regarding the human pair-bond. I’d also like to point out that there is nothing natural, in any way, shape, or form, about what is being done to boys in our school system. If anything, male nature is actively being attacked and distorted purposefully in our culture. Any purely evolutionary/natural model doesn’t take this into account, or the Marxist nanny state that enables the behavior of women these days. These factors are too critical IMO for the simplified model to be meaningful.
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Once again, we are stumbling over the distinction between the word “natural” and what might be termed our “natures.”
In a “natural” environment, social compensation mechanisms will inevitably be developed for the purpose of controlling and restraining the destructive aspects of people’s “natures.”
As far as what is happening to boys in the public school systems … it depends on how far down into “nature red in tooth and claw” you are willing to go. Historically, men have never shown a lot of compunction about crippling, castrating, or even killing other men. Events as recent as Kosovo and the actions of the Janjaweed illustrate that not only do men sometimes see other adult males as competitors, they often see boys as potential future competitors.
According to everything I read among bloggers about Game, “alpha” males are suffering from no shortage of breeding opportunities. At it’s coldest, hardest, and most heartless, what is being done to boys today could be viewed as nothing more than the policy makers who started these practices making sure that their own sons don’t face a lot of competition in the future.
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I get the distinction, but I’m skeptical that the two can be teased apart like that. I do not think there is an innate “female nature” or “male nature” that exists outside the context of a social environment. I don’t agree with the blank slaters who claim that environment is everything — that’s clearly wrong. But in the case of our human natures, they are the product of human social interaction over long periods of time, so I think it’s a nature/nurture combination — something the blank slaters disagree with.
But anyway even moving beyond that, I don’t think that it is “women’s underlying female nature” to slut around. There were always such women, and there always will be such women, to be sure. But the natural order has significant consequences for women doing that — because of the high pregnancy risk, the lack of entitlement to support outside of a pair bond, the likelihood of deadly violence if caught violating the pair bond and so on. Those consequences formed female nature in this area. If you remove them, you do not, as a result, get the expression of “innate female nature”, but rather the expression of an artificially unrestricted female nature – something which cannot really be seen as an innate nature, but rather as an aberration of it, and one which has come to pass through the removal of the natural consequences of certain behaviors.
To use an analogy, we now have much more food in the West than we need to live. So that “restriction” on our natural food intake (scarcity) has been lifted due to scientific progress. One result of that is that we have very high obesity rates, as a certain number of people consume more calories than they can process. Do we conclude from this that we are for the first time seeing that underlying human nature tends towards obesity, now that people are “free” to eat so much relative to need that they become obese? To conclude that obesity is therefore “natural” and part of our innate natures? I don’t think we do. Instead, we see the obesity as a result of a combination of environment (lack of scarcity coupled with modern medicine increasingly mitigating the risks of obesity) and individual (lifestyle choice, etc.) resulting in the behavior. I don’t think we say it’s our innate nature to be obese, even though there are many obese people in the West today. In the same way, a good number (not all — remember, not all people are obese, either) women are behaving sexually in a way that is unrestrained — but this doesn’t mean that they are behaving in accordance with their own innate nature. One would likely say that the innate human nature is to consume food, and that for some people when the restraints on this are set aside, food consumption can easily outpace food usage, resulting in the effect we see. The same can be said for women — the impulse is to mate with both Dads and Cads (still the case today, most women seek Dads at some point, too), and when the restrictions are taken away, some women will pursue Cads to their hearts’ content, resulting in the effect we see in the culture. In both cases, what you have is an underlying nature that evolved in a certain context with certain naturally occurring “checks” on the exercise of that nature — and contemporary society artificially removing those checks, and permitting the underlying nature to act in an unchecked — and therefore unnatural — manner.
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@Zed
The raw intelligence here is addictive. The Spearhead is brain candy. I should be working right now, but here I am.
OK, this works for coyotes, but for humans the situation is more complex because of the extended effort that it takes to ensure the survival of human offspring. One male trait may be thought of as the nurturing trait. This trait is primarily genetically determined, but is also amenable to the application of free will. At one end of the nurturing trait distribution are the good providers, while at the other are men who are opportunistic breeders. Betas and alphas if you will.
For optimum reproduction at the population level, both groups will always be present, but one group will always be relatively advantaged, depending on the environment. An environment that offers high resources and requires low investment for childraising (pick any sub-Saharan African country) advantages alphas, while the opposite is true in say, any European country in the nineteenth century. Unfortunately, the cultural environment in the West today has more in common with Nigeria than with Victorian Britain.
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Being modest and self-confident is mutually exclusive??? You can’t have confidence in yourself and be humble? Or maybe I have a completely different idea of what it means to be modest and self-confident.
InternetWood,
Really? They want to be intelligent, educated, independent, self-confident, and capable ONLY because of social status and to make them attractive to men? Heck, I thought that EVERYONE in general wanted to be those things mainly because they indeed had the desire to, but perhaps I’m just speaking for myself.
Now I can understand your point when it comes to attractiveness and being in control (although I’m curious as to what is meant by that). As for being independent, I’m thinking in terms of taking care of yourself and being able to support yourself fininacially. Now of course this changes in some cases when it comes to marriage.
Kathy,
Thanks for the quotes by Father Belisle
He pretty much sums up my beliefs about the role of the husband & wife, father & mother
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Succinct Article. Though it leaves out one important fact.
It´s only inside the insular western societies that the “Cindrellas” will be suppressed by their overeducated feminazi sistas. But on the global theater the western man is still the most desirable male to be had.
Just stepping over the border to Mexico opens up a world of proper females to US men, for example.
For us non-breeder males this feminized society is actually a boon. Fuck & Chuck, virtual harems for the “Alpha Males” and for the “Betas”, blessed peace from female harassment allows us to concentrate on activities that are actually fun (aka nothing to do with women whatsoever).
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“…men follow those they admire for their inherent qualities, and then they grace them with external honors. With women, this is inverted: women tend to view the inherent qualities as products of the external honors. The queen is superior because of her crown, and the prince more desirable because of his castle and fine steed. Men can only understand the appeal that a fairy tale such as Cinderella holds for women on an intellectual level after a good deal of life experience; for women the story hits them at a visceral level that they can feel from a very young age. The poor stepdaughter is scorned by by her privileged stepsisters until her fairy godmother comes to the rescue, and suddenly she is surrounded by finery and assumes social superiority over all other women. For boys, it is internal qualities, such as super powers, that allow them to rise above. ”
This is the traditional fairy tale, whose heroines possessed exactly those qualities that you say men desire now: beauty, kindness, gentleness, helpfulness, and we can add chastity, loyalty, honesty and industriousness. Her honors are a reward for persevering in those virtues.
The modern, feminist-influenced fairy tale praises girls for their bravery, cleverness, independence, skill, and deeds. It is an implicit critique of some aspects of the traditional female role, particularly its passivity and bestowed rather than achieved reward. In many modern tales the heroine is not a beauty, and she may chuck her fine dresses or the handsome prince for a life as a scholar or craftsperson.
The old tales encouraged girls to develop exactly those feminine virtues that men desire; the new tales at least encourage them to look beyond external decorations for internal virtue and ability.
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I am not a guy who is attracted to demure homebodies. I like really intelligent, creative, independent, and outspoken women.
It is terribly sad that most women trick themselves into believing those words mean “promiscuous, materialistic, boorish firehose spouting feminist groupthink talking points.”
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In the context you presented it, what’s the difference? The line is blurry at best. If it is in the “nature†of women to behave this way, you could say it is a “natural†consequence that this behavior arises under certain conditions. You’re playing intellectual word games here.
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What’s happening in our society is very “unnatural,†and that is why I believe these animal models are too simplistic to obtain any meaningful insight. Without going into too much detail, I would argue that the current state of affairs between men and women is unnatural to the point of being perverse. When have men and women been enemies to the extent they are today, where growing numbers of men are walking away from the family/reproduction game altogether by their own volition? Seems counterproductive for the survival of the species, no? I would also argue that the best genes are not the ones being spread and multiplied under this Marxist system. Actually, the exact opposite is occurring. The least desirable qualities and traits are being propagated (i.e. men who do not want to support/raise their offspring, sociopaths/thugs/bad boys), and men with these traits are the ones with the access to the most of the ginas. Your model with the rabbits and coyotes is cyclical. Following the path we are on is not culling the gene pool, it will eventually be its death.
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If we are to take a woman’s opinion, she is intelligent, educated, independent, self-confident, capable, attractive and in control
And yet this woman likely does not own any DIY home repair books, could not wield a Philips screwdriver to fix something around the house, change her own flat tire, cook and bake well, manage her finances with the future in mind, or figure out some creative solution to some issue rather than buying the answer. She might be able to turn off the water on an overflowing toilet and locate her circuit breakers, but even that is a big might from what I’ve seen. *sigh* How pitiful women have come the more “independent” and “in control” feminism has made them.
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Hestia–
I have to assume you are from a different country and are not referring to American Women. I personally am the one who fixes the dishwasher, hangs shelves, fixes the washer/dryer, and minor “around the house probs”. Am I a professional at those things? No, of course not. But neither are most men.
What imaginary world do you live in where women REALLY don’t do those things that you refer to as “men’s stuff”???? You hardly have to be a butch-dyke or a Feminist to know how to change a tire and to know what an Allen Wrench or a Philips Screwdriver is.
This is the stuff that makes me think this whole “MRA” thing is some sort of weird joke. The stuff some of you say is SO antiquated and far from reality that I cannot even believe that you are attempting to be serious in your claims.
Christ, my dad taught me to change a tire before I was even allowed to have a driver’s license. You really think I’m the only woman on earth who likes being a mother but also likes being a Machinist? Fixing things around the house? And even *gasp* looking like a girl while doing those things?
You cannot possibly tell me that you have never met a woman who is “handy” around the house AND can look feminine and raise children. That’s ridiculous. If that’s what you are trying to say, then you clearly have never left your home or live in some foreign 3rd world nation.
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Novaseeker: ” men were dying at higher rates than women (tribal warfare, death on the job (hunting, other dangerous work reserved to men) and disease (which also disproportionately impacts males, in relative terms)”
I wonder if this is true. In the 16th through 18th centuries, English and American men lived longer than women. In a local cemetery with 18th and 19th century graves I observed that the female deaths peaked in the child-bearing years, fell through middle age, and rose again in the seventh decade. Male deaths were steadier, and fewer than female in early adulthood.
Child-bearing and lactation, taking care of the sick, feeding the men first in times of scarcity (so the men can hunt and farm) decrease women’s resistance to disease. In the first year of the Plymouth settlement, about a third of the men, half the children, and five sixths of the women died. Some forms of warfare take a high toll on women. In New England, the Indians killed women and men alike in the attacks on the farms and settlements, and women were much less likely to survive the forced marches into Canada.
Men were more likely to go through two or three wives than the other way around. This may reflect male scarcity, but OTOH it may indicate that more women died young.
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Hestia has a good point here, also, which is that part of the fundamental issue is this:
There is a huge difference between attempting to adopt the superficial appearance of intelligence, confidence, and capability, and these things actually being possessed by someone.
I, too, have observed that there are a bevy of “intelligent, liberated, confident” women who have no idea how to do very basic things, and get angry when others will not do them instead of the princess having to do actual work…
Being a raging she-harpy doesn’t make you intelligent, confident, or capable. It just makes you a raging she-harpy.
Also, if Lady Raine is going after Hestia now, can we officially say we have our second female MRA, behind Female Masculinist?
Welcome to the club.
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Lady Raine – â€I personally am the one who fixes the dishwasher, hangs shelves…Hey! You guy’s, stop discussing what you’re discussing, and start noticing me and discussing me!â€
Yeah, yeah, yeah…we get it already. You’re perfect. You can do everything. You’re the exception that supposedly disproves every “ruleâ€.
Rumor has it that you’re the one that Kristen Wiig modeled her over-the-top attention-whore “Penelope†character on.
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I believe what Lady Raine is saying is that Not All Women Are Liek Dat!
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You and I mostly agree, Nova, so I have no intention of allowing this to degenerate into an exercise in hair splitting. But there are some extremely subtle issues in what we are talking about.
Where you talk about “checks” on an underlying nature, I see an environmental circumstance which required an adaptation in order to survive.
Taking your example of obesity, in a calorie-poor environment, the strategy “consume every calorie you can get your hands on” will probably result in greater survival rates for those who practice it than for those who don’t. The anthropological record indicates that long term starvation was a frequent problem among early human societies. There are apparently different types of effects on bones from short term hunger than there are from long term food deprivation. Under certain circumstances, those with the greatest reserves of stored fat were most likely to survive extended periods of food deprivation.
Now, one could argue that fear of starvation is both natural and part of our natures. And, from that point say that it is also natural and part of our natures to seek to find some way of insuring against that – like agriculture. That is where things get subtle. Is agriculture a natural, or an un-natural environment?
My contention would be that it is an UN-natural environment which it is in our natures to create in order to make survival more predictable and less subject to the vagaries of weather, disease, and competition with other tribes.
But, then take a band which is still hunter gatherers, and put them on the edge of starvation. Is it “natural” for them to try to steal the food reserves of an agricultural tribe? I would say that it is. Every living thing has – embedded in the very life force which animates it – the mandate to SURVIVE! There has never been much extra-tribal loyalty in the history of the world, so a group of people starving for calories would most likely see nothing wrong with stealing calories from someone else if the alternative were starvation.
I think in many respects we are victims of our own successes in mastering the challenges of life and assuring our basic survival. Changing our environment to an un-natural one allows the natural tendency to consume and hoard calories to progress unchecked and result in obesity.
Likewise, our extended development of mechanisms to curtail interpersonal aggression has allowed extremes of behavior to manifest themselves. These extremes are not due to new tendencies which have suddenly arisen in the human race recently, but which were survival mechanisms when the environment in which we lived was quite different.
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Snark – “I believe what Lady Raine is saying is that Not All Women Are Liek Dat!”
Actually, what Lady Raine is saying is, “Everybody look at me, look what I’m doing!”
It’s what attention-whores do best.
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Lady Raine-What imaginary world do you live in where women REALLY don’t do those things that you refer to as “men’s stuff�???
The same imaginary world you live in where I said any of those tasks are “men’s stuff”
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slwerner – it doesn’t really matter what she’s saying. She is a small insect landing on my monitor.
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Hestia,
I don’t think you and Lady Raine live in the same imaginary world
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LR is still here?
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@ Lady Raine
When I first came to the US 26 years ago on an H1-B visa I lived on Webster Street in Allentown. Seeing you post here reminds me of that – I had forgotten the address, but just Google mapped around Allentown until I found it.
I have known one or two women who could do these things. No-one (well hardly anyone) here claims that the female gender is a monolith, with all females sharing identical traits.
You are clearly a 3-sigma or 4-sigma woman, with traits that live far out in one of the tails of the distribution of female aptitudes and abilities. I respect that. You do, however, appear to share one typical female trait, imo, which is the inability to mentally place yourself in the position of someone who is different to you. I can imagine what it is like to be you, I think, and maybe you can imagine what it is like to be me, I don’t know, but most women totally lack that ability.
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@porkchop,
I don’t believe I’m playing intellectual word games, any more than medieval theologians were when they argued over “how many angels could dance on the head of a pin.” The biggest problem comes from making assumptions that we all mean the same thing when we use the same words, and that our understandings of all the concepts are basically the same. Only when we get down to what seems at first like splitting hairs do some of the very real and very significant differences in the way we are constructing things begin to become apparent.
Let’s take a very ideologically loaded example. Let’s take one of those groups which Novaseeker is talking about where activity by a female which undermines a man’s certainty of paternity being punished by violence and calling that a “natural” control mechanism. Now, imagine that a woman in one of those groups gives birth to a child prematurely which has spina bifida. The same “natural” control mechanisms which contained female infidelity would most likely see the severely defective child as a threat to the survival of the tribe or the community, and pressure the mother to set it out for the hyenas. I have heard legends/mythology of mid-wives quietly breaking the necks of severely deformed children.
Now, one might say it is the most “natural” thing in the world – in our “natures”, if you will, to want every one of our offspring to survive. And it is equally “natural” for members of a group which is survival-challenged to regard a defective child which will never be able to contribute to the survival of the group and which will consume many times more of the resources of time and attention, just in order to barely survive, than will potentially productive members of the tribe, and thus is a real threat to their own survival.
Instead of spending the first few months of their lives in neo-natal intensive care and then going home to government assisted health care, with a million $$ in hospital bills, such infants would be culled.
Expending extraordinary measures on a fundamentally defective child which has no chance of survival without those extraordinary measures is also decidedly “unnatural”, but it happens almost every day.
So, the trick becomes where we draw the line between what is “natural” and what is un-natural. And where that line gets drawn will always depend on the personal belief systems and biases of the person drawing it.
Virtually everything about the world most of us live in today is “un-natural”. But, the vast majority of people will support any and all parts of it that benefit them directly. Christian Scientists might refuse antibiotics when they have an infection or chemotherapy when they have cancer because it is un-natural, but the vast majority of people won’t and the prevailing cultural attitudes are such that parents who might try to do so with their children will find the courts intervening and overruling their parental decisions.
One could argue that modern medicine which allows a much higher survival rate of not just children, but adults as well, is “un-natural”, but few people will be against that.
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It’s interesting that the writer used a female doctor as his example of a “successful” woman.
It’s commonly accepted that it takes two female doctors to equal the productivity of one male doctor. In other words, two females must graduate from medical school for every male to allow the health care system to continue to operate at the same level of efficiency.
There are many reasons for this.
Women tend to choose less demanding specialties, so there are more female than male dermatologists but more male than female brain surgeons. The most difficult medical specialties require lifelong re-training to keep credentials current and very long hours at work. An eighty hour workweek is common for surgeons but less common for dermatologists.
Many women use their medical degree as a means to impress higher class men. Once they marry a rich provider, they either drop out of medicine or drastically curtail the number of hours they work every week. Either way, the productivity that society gets as its reward for educating that doctor drops drastically.
Motherhood causes women to work fewer hours, while fathers often work longer hours. This is because society expects and allows women to place childcare ahead of employment but expects the exact opposite of men.
In short, replacing a male in medical school with a female will, on average, cut productivity in half. This acts as a hidden cost that is too un-PC to even mention in our health care debates. It is not a coincidence that our system is in crisis at the same time that women started to outnumber men in medical school.
The same effect impacted the Soviet Union. Females were granted equality, they entered the medical profession in number equal to men, and the prestige and respect that were once given to doctors collapsed.
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It’s no particular pet theory of mine, so there really isn’t any point in getting into defending it. However, I’m a fan of Ayn Rand and in “Atlas Shrugged” she makes the point over and over again “If what you are seeing doesn’t make any sense, then check your assumptions – you will find that one of them is wrong.”
Based on the current assumptions of a lot of people, myself included, the behavior we are seeing today makes no sense. It’s probably worth riffing through all of our assumptions and holding each of them up to the light of skepticism.
“Game” theory explains nicely some of the behavior we see from women – like chasing “alphas”. But, there are a lot of different definitions of “alpha.” One might be as simple as “a man who controls resources.” From what I have seen of women, it really doesn’t matter much to them whether that man controls them in a manner that other men would consider legal and ethical or not, as long as he controls them.
In a dog-eat-dog scenario, the true socipath has an edge over more socialized men. Stealing is often easier than earning. Now, usually, more socialized men band together to find ways to contain sociopaths. But right now, particularly in the UK, the Powers That Be seem to be giving the sociopaths free license and it is the socialized men who are being contained.
I’m not going to get into the whys of that right now – for the sake of this point it is just a given.
So, if the tenets of HBD have any validity at all, the sociopaths on the average have a better chance of controlling resources than the average man, which would give them a slight edge when it comes to being vehicles to get a woman’s genes to the future.
The birthrate issue is completely separate. From the purely HBD perspective, the “replacement rate” is 1. Individuals do not care what is happening at the cultural level. As long as they produce one child who makes it to reproductive age and reproduces, they have replaced themselves.
If you look at birth rates compared to infant mortality rates, my guess is that you will find a fairly high correlation – that the highest birth rates are in areas where children have the highest probability of not surviving to adulthood, and in those areas where infant and child mortality are low the birth rates will be lower because the vast majority of children will end up surviving.
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Let’s say there are some “perfect women” or “the right women” for a guy?
How is he going to find her? It’s a huge population, highly mobile, with no real way to discern if a woman will dump him for a better guy or cheat/dump. Female advice is disingenuous. Even assuming a “right woman” there is no way to identify her.
With as Novaseeker writes, birth control, abortion, alimony, child support, and rising standards of female living, most women who might have been “right” 50 years ago today embrace easy promiscuity, partner hopping, and fairly high standards for men (high degree of Alphaness). Standards that few men can reach.
Consider John Adams. At the time of his marriage (consensual) to Abigail, he was a just-starting-out Lawyer, struggling, and no one thought he would be much of anything. He lost his first case. He was not poor, but not rich either. He had neither looks nor commanding social presence. The kind of society that could produce a marriage like John and Abagail Adams is gone. Much of it is thankfully gone: hideous disease, mortality, brutal legal system, slavery, women’s rights restricted, and so on. But there is simply no way to create pair marriages.
Novaseeker is right about hunter-gather people, though we should note that the population explosion from agriculture (11,000 BC) meant a lot of people in different ways: a few big men polygamists, relatively fewer pair bonds, hyper-specialization, and excess food resources (most of the time). We are now in the even bigger shift.
It is the end of pair bonding. The end of monogamy. Women can and will mate fairly exclusively with the few “Alpha” men, the Tiger Woods and so on, and the rest of men will be clambering upwards to be “Alpha” via various means: “edgy” rock stars, Extreme sports, hyper fitness and grooming, “guido” style aggression ala “Jersey Shore,” and so on. Marriage is dead, relationships are dead, welcome to the world of “Jersey Shore.”
THAT is our future, folks.
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“I think we human coyotes are in the stage of the cycle where the suplus is ending and the genetic shift away from the passivity of the past half century toward a more aggressive standard model of men is well underway.”
Good thing a Jabberwocky is an apex predator.
“The raw intelligence here is addictive. The Spearhead is brain candy. I should be working right now, but here I am.”
I second that.
I’m going to stay out of the hair splitting. Obviously nature has various systems that are counter balancing. It even has feedback loops that accelerate things. Remember, evolution tends to happen in bursts. One thing, which is broadly touched on by your all’s brilliant analysis and debate of evolution and nature is that being Alpha is not always genetically advantagous in certain context. One problem with being Alpha, is that you are always outnumbered by Beta’s. How many times have royal families been wiped out in their entirity. Its hard to stay at the top. Also remember, when the last global extinction event took place on Earth, it was not the Alpha predators, like T-Rex, that survived and flourished, it was the most Beta of all the animals, the tiny fur covered, milk-nurturing scavengers who feasted off the chaos and death; Mammals, our genetic ancestors. Mammals and birds and alligators. Birds because they can fly and were small enough not to have high caloric demands. Alligators (and or Crocs) because they were flexible enough to be land and water dwelling, and….well, that would be an interesting evolutionary discussion; How did the alligators do so well? What can we learn from them? Ramble over. You guys are great. Keep up the stimulating discourse on evolution. Its like a tapestry involving biology, culture, science, and government. Its easy to see the pattern created, but hard to distinguish the importance of individual threads. Thats why its a fun debate. Things are only more or less right and wrong. Its still all part of the picture.
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@Zed
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After reading “Game†theory, your post regarding the Coyote-Rabbit cycle and other theories, it seems pretty clear this issue we are discussing has too many important factors to have a simple model describe it well. All those proposed models have truth in them but can also be picked apart using hard facts. The issue is complex, which isn’t surprising considering most people (especially women) are completely oblivious to it on a cultural level.
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Yes and no. I agree with you that individuals do not care what is happening at the cultural level by and large. However, you described the behavior we see among women as a “completely instinctive reaction…give their genes a better chance of surviving…â€Â I would say it is instinctive for women to want to marry when they are young and start families when they are the most fertile. There are very good reasons for this as most of us who haven’t been brainwashed by PC doctrine know so I won’t describe them here. However, one the by products of modern feminism/Marxism is that many women miss the boat on this completely, because they are so out of touch with nature and reality. A great deal of effort has been spent by the feminists/Marxists to flip their noses at human nature and completely turn it on its head. If this is the case, it doesn’t make sense to look at the issue from a genetic/evolutionary perspective, at least as long as our countries don’t turn into a Mad Max type scenario where guns and bullets equal food, water and access to women. And as you also pointed out, if it did turn to this, it is likely the sociopaths wouldn’t survive in the long-term without the “State†to protect them from communities of “Betas†who could gather/create resources.
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“If you look at birth rates compared to infant mortality rates, my guess is that you will find a fairly high correlation – that the highest birth rates are in areas where children have the highest probability of not surviving to adulthood, and in those areas where infant and child mortality are low the birth rates will be lower because the vast majority of children will end up surviving.â€
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This is also partially true, but doesn’t explain why the populations of the West are dying and the populations of the areas you showed in the pictograph are growing, and rapidly. Apparently the mortality rates are not keeping up with the birth rates to balance things out, and vice versa. I don’t think it is instinctive to choose iPods, bigger houses and luxury cars over having larger families, but that is exactly what is being taught in the feminist materialist culture we have here. An instinctive reaction to me using heroin for the first time will probably be to continue using heroin, and in increasing quantities. It doesn’t make it an instinctive reaction that will give my genes a better chance of surviving though.
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Who might be the modern version of mammals to survive this culturally induced extinction event?
Alpha males, or the Amish?
We shall see. I’m sure we’ll all be surpised.
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Clearly very true.
I look at it like a jigsaw puzzle – taking each piece and seeing if it might fit in somewhere. Sometimes what looks like a fit changes when another piece gets laid down next to it.
And, I’m still not sure that any of this is any better explanation of women’s behavior than “Estrogen Psychosis.”
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The “right women” is an expression akin to the “right narcotic.” Women continue to use this expression to give foolish men hope that marriage is a good thing to do.
It is not.
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Zed,
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To be completely honest, when I’m not on The Spearhead actually trying to use the old thinking cap, “Estrogen Psychosis†is the explanation I use to get me through my day:-)
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The ideal woman does exist, but if you want her, you will have to search a community with a religious beatstick isolated of the poison of the Western world.
Needless to say, go expat.
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I think you do indeed need to marry the right woman, and that she should be the traditional things: pretty, helpful, have feminine interests. But then you have to keep her. As Nietzsche, who failed in this area, put it, you need to be able to “hold onto a woman”. Not just attract her in the first place.
Another insight of Nietzche’s was that we are not single, unitary personalities. We all contain aspects of our character which are almost like separate personalities, and which need to be fed, or at least dealt with. Sometimes these are just fantasy personalities, but they are there, ready to come out if the environment suits. For example, I can readily imagine that plenty of women who would never work as strippers have nonetheless imagined themselves doing so.
What a husband needs to do is give his wife a bit of everything, including a chance to live out some of those fantasies, or shadow personalities. It is best if she has done lots of things, all kinds, but all with you. She needs to bond to you. All her romantic and sexual memories should have you in them. That is the ideal.
That’s why is is not enough to be a good provider. You need to really turn her on. Not all the time. People have lives to live, and there are times (when she is heavily pregnant, when you are unwell, when the children are a worry) when sexuality is not high on the agenda. But occasionally it has to be, and then it has to be hot.
Most men have a hard, dark side. Most women know this, and like to see it occasionally, or at least know it is there. It is when a man is soft all the way through, and at all times, that she is liable to get disappointed.
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Sounds anything like Lady Raine’s persona? http://www.ladykree.com/Raine/whoisraine.html
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I think, of all the comments, Zed said it best when he observed that “the right woman” has those qualities that make for a stable and permanent marriage. The same is true of “the right man.” These qualities do not always coincide with the often desired qualities.
Can I tell you the “can’t lose” signs of Miss Right? I cannot. Dealing with other human beings is always a gamble because we are not bound by instinct or laws–only conscience or the powers of risk assessment. Criminal law, for instance, only influences those who want to commit the act, but think the risk of punishment outweighs the possible advantages of success.
Do I agree that, for some men, doing without marriage is a better choice? Yes; if you do not desire marriage, it were better if you did not pursue it. If you hate women, do not pursue it. I would say the same to women. (And for pity’s sake, stop pursuing it in singles bars and in the office!)
…I’m going to ignore all the speculation involving “evolution”. Sorry, but as we don’t have any records of the events being described, it is only speculation and not historical. Makes for a poor basis for dealing with hard realities, especially in the matter of human nature–although it makes for excellent excuses for doing whatever you want.
And Jabherwochie–it would be the Amish. From what I’ve gathered, the so-called “alphas” don’t breed, only mate pointlessly.
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Rebel–
“God doesn’t give a shit about humans and rightly so: why should our particular species of monkeys draw God’s attention??????”
because He created our species, and in particular He created the human male IN HIS OWN IMAGE, ie with some of his personal psychospiritual characteristics
our Father loves us, it is we who — in our arrogance and egotistic rebellion — insist on hating and disobeying Him
“There is no right or wrong way to live: “Do as thou wilt shall be the whole of the Lawâ€
The New Law is the Law of unlimited individual freedom.”
that kind of thinking was designed exactly to appeal to the human male’s love of freedom
but it’s a lie, and there IS both a right and a wrong way to live, though these ways have been corrupted and twisted by human ideologies and political systems, all of which are sourced in evil
“Vive la liberte illimitee.”
Libertas is another name for the Goddess — that is, the entity currently (and formerly!) controlling the lives of western men, destroying masculinity wherever it is found, and then gloating about it (It”s A Woman’s Nation!”)
so your slogan actually means “Long Live the Goddess”
libertas is like democracy — sounds fantastic, oh right, Power to The People blah blah . . . but notice that democracy turns out to be just another front for the Goddess and her endless matriarchies
who controls the vote? men? puh leeze
who controls the politicians, the government? education? law? media? the “free market”? men control these?
not a chance
youve been deceived, and aleister crowley and his Do What Thou Wilt Is The Whole of The Law was a fool and a tool of the matriarchate
crowley’s ideas and activities, like those of co-huckster L. Ron Hubbard, have been central in bringing about the New Woman Order of “freedom” and “liberty” in which western men find themselves bound
it was crowley, hubbard, and jack parsons who gave us the Babalon Working, in which they attempted (rather successfully, as it turned out) to “raise” the “goddess Babalon” for their “new age”
in socio-political terms, what Mr. Do As Thou Wilt raised was the psychotic, godless, father-hating, backstabbing, malevolent matriarachies which have now essentially over-run the planet
not exactly a hero-figure for MRAs
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Exchange tween Charles the Hammer and Novaseeker….
Me likee.
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Sestamibi:
Both smart females and males dumb it down in order to fit in.
The fact that there was /is a flap over how that phenom effects only females is the side effect of feminism/profem controlling societies… well everything (megaphone/ceiling painting /pen of priestly authority).
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great article.
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Ray
“in socio-political terms, what Mr. Do As Thou Wilt raised was the psychotic, godless, father-hating, backstabbing, malevolent matriarachies which have now essentially over-run the planet”
Although my perception of God is perhaps different from yours, I agree. I understand that there is universal law, and violating it leads to chaos, i.e. a reversal of the natural order, or ‘going against the flow’. Ultimately, the natural flow always wins. I have a very thorough understanding of polarity and it’s purpose–and the reason balance exists.
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You almost certainly have a radically different idea of ‘self-confident’ than a man. To quote Carl Jung:
Most often, what women call being self-confident, men call being an asshole.
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That’s a very good way to sum it up.
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As long as the legal system is biased so heavily against me there can be no “right woman”. They ALL have more rights than us, it’s like saying the slave had the “right master” – he’s still a slave. So even if this mythical “right woman” did exist it wouldn’t matter because the law has made her the master and the man the slave. I don’t know about you but I have no interest in being a slave even to a kind master.
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Jesse,
absolutely, even if you think you have the right woman, you are still playing Russian roulette with the divorce laws we have here. The fact that most women in the West are unfit to be wifes and mothers only strengthens some of the advice given here regarding expatting, GYOW, ghosting, or becoming a PUA.
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It could be worse porkchop. Here in Australia did you know that the man has no right to order a paternity test and if he does it on the sly he gets charged with assault (I kid you not – assault) and the evidence is therefore inadmissible. Add to that that if you live together for more than 6 months you are considered legally married so if she gets pregnant you foot the bill with no recourse to challenge it. Even worse, they recently passed what is commonly called the “mistress law” which effectively gives a woman that you are just fucking similar rights to a wife; all she has to do is show that you had an ongoing “relationship”. The only defense you have really is to have a vasectomy (and even that isn’t 100% effective) which is why Australia tops the world in vasectomies.
Give it time and they will try to get that sort of thing through in the states too – be afraid, be very afraid.
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Jesse,
sounds vile, and I’m sure the scum on this side of the Anglosphere are taking notes. I wasn’t aware it was this bad in Australia, but it sounds like an even lousier place to be a man than the USA.
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Jesse
Damn, I’ve heard from some internet friends in Australia about how bad it was, but nobody mentioned that. I’m expatting to a country that with laws that are male-friendly. Years ago when I was in the Navy, Australia was considered a good place. Wondering when this happened?
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Well let me put it this way: when i was married I was so terrified of the consequences of her getting pregnant that I stopped having sex with her to trick her into going off the pill so we could switch to condoms and give me control over contraception. Even then I was reluctant to have sex because those things do break occasionally.
It is my considered opinion that the only intelligent option is to just stay away from them completely. I am now in my mid 40′s so thankfully I am no longer controlled by my dick. I consider myself lucky to have got through intact and free. It is also amazing how little money one needs to be happy if you don’t have a money vacuum that is a woman leeching off you. Being a man in Australia is fine as long as you stay away from women completely. I wouldn’t have another one in the house.
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Jabherwochie,
I dunno if you meant that rhetorically or not, but in case you were serious, there has been a lot of very interesting research on crocodilians recently that offers some clues. For example, crocodilians have natural antibiotics in their blood that protects them from the bacteria in dirty water. They are also a lot more intelligent than was originally believed; at Gatorland in Florida a group of crocodiles have been trained to respond to simple voice commands, including individual name recognition. Also unique among reptiles: mother alligatorss have been observed actually caring for their babies, as opposed to leaving them to their own devices.
There’s a bunch of other stuff, but that’s all I remember off the top of my head. All this could offer clues as to why crocodilians survived when most of the other large reptiles died out.
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@ Martel and Nova
You guys are stating observations from different sides of the same coin.
The Individual homo sapien organism is different in its nature to t” civilisation” organism which it and of itself is an organism.
The paradox is that for the civilisation (humans cooperating together to beat nature in essence) to survive it places restrictions and demands suchs as altruism on the indivudual organism.
So you’re both correct, explannations you’ve both offered are true with regards to the human animal as an individual entity and as a collective organism called society.
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I don’t understand what you’re trying to say here. For me, it’s not a woman’s ability that makes her a poor choice of mate. Intelligence, per se, is not a turn-off. What’s a turn-off is the tendency of intelligent women in today’s society to engage and display their inner masculine archetype. Intelligent women are much more likely to have been through the college brainwashing machine and been taught to want and acquire masculine status symbols.
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@Jesse
When when did they actually pass the mistress law? I knew when some mistress won alimony from a business man, but didnt realise they actually made that into LAW?!!!!!!
Also when did they say going for DNA test was assault, dont answer that, for a guy who tries to keep up with the times i apparently suck donkey balls with regards to my own country
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@Caliph
The mistress law is quite recent. That case where that businessman settled out of court for some hideous was driven by the fact that if it had gone to court he would have lost under the new law. they were quite clear about that. In fact that was the first time anybody got to hear about the new law. They kept that very quiet didn’t they?
As for the assault charges for gathering DNA for testing without the mother’s approval, that’s been in for a very long time but I couldn’t say exactly how long.
I have to say the there is one piece of advice i give to all men over here and that is “learn to enjoy your own company; if you rely on a woman to make you happy you are doomed”. That advice is becoming more relevant every year as more of these anti-male laws get passed. Thankfully I followed my own advice – I’m single and never been happier.
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Ray-Kudos on the Scientology and Babalon Working references but you’re critiquing Crowley from an unprovable assertion that the teachings of a particular religion are objectively true, with supremacy over all other belief systems. Thats a little like saying a particular basketball team is perfect because it’s you’re favorite, and disregard all evidence to the contrary.
Crowley, Parsons, and L Ron were all trying to teach us that we have a creative spark inside. Collectively, humanity creates our reality and it’s up to the most persuasive, clever, and resolute to bring forth the change they wish to see in the world. Admittedly, L Ron really went off the deep end as his expression of Will was to remove his follower’s will in a very cheesy way.
If you choose to use your creative spark to evoke a patriarchal monotheistic God into the world more power to you. As I believe that humanity is a lens through which the universe expresses itself, I choose to serve the divine spark of creativity inside.
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Jesse
I saw some stupid female television personality (Liz Trucillo?) going around Australia attempting to find out why men won’t have anything to do with women (even attempting to convince some gay men to ‘try’ them (to no avail). With those severe misandrist laws, why even bother asking? I live in the US and am careful enough, if it were that severe in the states, PUAs would not exist. I’m getting out before it reaches that point. Don’t these bitches in Australia realize that they are responsible for the so-called “man drought”?
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“As I believe that humanity is a lens through which the universe expresses itself, I choose to serve the divine spark of creativity inside.”
If the word “universe” is interchangable with “God”, and “God” is interchangable with the “omnipotent matrix of reality”, then I really, really like this statement.
If not, then I just really like it.
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Reinholt: “I know it’s hard for you to understand a place where we don’t enforce politically correct norms through fascist means, null, but perhaps someday you will get used to allowing people to freely express themselves.”
Lol? I am an opponent of political correctness. I have been ejected from an untold number of forums for saying something politically incorrect.
I never said, implied or led anyone to believe that I am somehow trying or desiring to restrict the free speech of someone on this site, or someone else somewhere else. You are making your accusation out of whole cloth. Is this your usual strategy, then? Someone says something that is at odds with something a MRA said, and you go “you’re just politically correct and opposed to our freedoms, man!”
“You are objecting to the use of “allâ€, and generalizations, to characterize things. I am going to tell you something very important if this is true:
Never communicate with anyone again. Ever.”
As I have plainly explained many, many, many times now: I am objecting to statements that explicitly apply to every single member of a group, not generalizations. Those two are not the same thing.
“Everyone does it; it is common on both sides of this debate, as well as all others.”
So? It’s still retarded. The unwashed masses do, say and think many retarded things. By your logic feminism and leftism are a-okay since “everyone does it.”
“It’s also incredibly intellectually dishonest that you only call out people who offend you on this – everyone is doing it, but I don’t see equal application of your outrage. You are behaving as if you are a hypocrite, a front-runner, and a liar.”
Wait, what? You are expecting me to Google for any instances of someone making a blanket statement regarding all members of a group, post the results here and denounce the person who said it? Maybe you should look in the mirror before randomly calling other people “fringe lunatics.”
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Jesse December 14, 2009 at 9:41 pm
It is my considered opinion that the only intelligent option is to just stay away from them completely. I am now in my mid 40’s so thankfully I am no longer controlled by my dick. I consider myself lucky to have got through intact and free. It is also amazing how little money one needs to be happy if you don’t have a money vacuum that is a woman leeching off you. Being a man in Australia is fine as long as you stay away from women completely. I wouldn’t have another one in the house.
This is exactly how I see it. I don’t have a woman, and don’t want one. Thank you very much.
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Null: “As I have plainly explained many, many, many times now: I am objecting to statements that explicitly apply to every single member of a group, not generalizations. Those two are not the same thing.”
And how’s that working out for you? Have your repeated objections accomplished whatever you hoped they would accomplish?
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“Also unique among reptiles: mother alligatorss have been observed actually caring for their babies, as opposed to leaving them to their own devices.”
Hmmmm. This seems relevant somehow, although I can’t put my finger on it. Can something be learned here? Hmmm. Why is this screaming out to me. Something about single moms and pump and dump Alphas…..? Anyone? Can someone help me here? Its on the tip of my mind.
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@ David Brant
Realising something like that would require them to think rationally about the situation – surely you jest?
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Type 5: “And how’s that working out for you? Have your repeated objections accomplished whatever you hoped they would accomplish?”
Have this site’s objections towards feminism caused feminism to collapse? No? Then I guess it’s time to shut down the server and sell the domain.
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@Null-
I understand your desire for consistent logic. Hell, we have autistics here. We also value extremist thought because if serves as a vital catalyst to raising public conscousness on an issue. Some of us are also poetic by nature, as it makes things more entertaining, and metaphors and anologies are great linquistic tools. Your perspective is valid. It is just one perspective amongst many.
Do you like the poem “The Jabberwocky”? Words are slippery. Don’t deny us our ability to play with them in ways to sqeeze additional meaning from them, where as feminist abuse language to twist its meaning. You’ll come to start appreciating things like, “All women since the dawn of time have been nothing more than nature’s little whores!!” and you will appreciate the poetic force of hyperbole. If not, you are a boor. If you want the MRA to be fun, we are that accomidating. If you are not, let others have fun. This is going to be a tedious experiment in endurance and indifference. A little emotional wallowing, a little fun, a little lightness and release, it will help us in the long haul.
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Jabherwochie – Thanks much. And yes, your substitutions work just fine. I prefer to not use “Matrix” as it is such a loaded word.
“Lenses through which the universe expresses itself” is my interpretation/paraphrase of a Frank Herbert quote but the concept has been articulated by many different thinkers…
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“Have this site’s objections towards feminism caused feminism to collapse? No? Then I guess it’s time to shut down the server and sell the domain.”
Ah, a natural skeptic and pessimist. I see why you are coming to our side. Feminist are completely irrational. Stick around, enjoy the variety of the human experience. Your tools of doubt and skepticism are invaluable against feminist. I appreciate our differences. I hope you can at least ignore them. And keep in mind, giant intellects hang around here, accompanied by substantial egos. The leaders of this philosphical war aren’t idiots or wimps, and new-comers will have to prove themselves.
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Wait, a mistress law?
Now I may not agree with ALL Alimony, but a “mistress law” is exactly what an adulterer deserves.
He’s already a criminal if he has a Mistress. He’s already broken his word, his contract, and his promise to (God)……
If he has/had a Mistress that’s ONE time I’d say he definitely deserves to pay for the rest of his life. He wants to act like a Polygamist,but without being honest, without ending his marriage first, and without PAYING for his many “wives”?
Now he can live like one. Boo-hoo….sounds fair to me.
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I’ve found a woman with all those qualities (aside from ‘not stupid’: she’s quite intelligent), is anti-feminist (like Hestia), and likes me as the alpha caveman that I am.
There are ‘right’ women out there, but there aren’t many. It’s so easy to see things as black and white, this or that, without appreciating that exceptions always exist.
From my experience, the women who are ‘right’ come from families with strong, dominant fathers (for all the obvious reasons I won’t outline here). The problem, of course, is what happens when dominant male fathers cease to exist? To paraphrase the study on rates noted above, I think civilization will suffer horribly, but it won’t cease to exist like in that experiment. Strangely, the cure for this seems to be for alphas males to marry and raise competent families with patriarchal-oriented values. Such a twisted conundrum, this.
As someone said on another thread, it is the rise of western feminism that will enable radical religious factions to sprout all over the globe. Long-term, I submit that there will be a return to patriarchy, but it will be under theocratic tyranny (and yes, this means that I believe certain forms of patriarchy are horrible. the only proper patriarchy is one established with western values).
@ David Brandt:
-is it possible that the reason why men are avoiding women is not because of the laws, but because they’ve simply become irrelevant to a man’s happiness? What I mean is, I don’t think that all the Australian men think “wow, these laws suck, not going to spend time with women ever!” … Rather, I think females have inflated the true price of their sexual currency (in time, money, bonding) and men simply aren’t buying into it at all. A man seeks pleasure in his life: women are being replaced by video games, the internet, and so forth … and the need for sex is easily met by the fact that it’s easy to find willing women at any bar. (I mean, even you say that the bitches are responsible for the man-drought … not the laws themselves).
All I know is that it would be prudent to invest in companies that produce cat food and cat-related necessities.
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HA HAHAHAHAH yeah except that if Feminism collapsed most of you would actually have to get off the couch and get jobs again and stop riding the coattails of your wives and girlfriends. I know there’s nothing men hate more than actually having to work, so I don’t think we need to worry about that.
It’s almost guaranteed a large portion of you posting here are JUST that kind too. It’s always the ones who are sitting at home living off their wive’s jobs…..bitching about Feminism and waiting for their ballbusting wife to come in the door and drag him away by his ear because he was “Supposed to be looking for a goddamn job and not playing on the computer all day!”
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Okay this premise of a “man-drought” is ridiculous. Even a warpig can wake up each morning and if she wanted to could say “I think I’ll get some dick today.” and go off easily and do so.
There has never been a shortage of sex for women (and therefore reproduction), so these Australian women’s claims must be geared toward “GOOD-man-drought”. Meaning men they want to date? Marry? I don’t know, but it’s sad they haven’t figured out that they’re only good for sex and sperm. The rest is an unnecessary headache for most normal women.
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“it’s sad they haven’t figured out that they’re only good for sex and sperm.”
Twice as many things that women are good for, then?
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@ LR
You know you’re right. I think it would be quite fun to put the woman in the fields while I sit on the porch watching, sippin on a mint julep. I rather like this idea. Maybe feminism isn’t such a bad idea! Now get back to work or I shall have you horsewhipped.
Anyways, your reading comprehension is below that of a mongoloid. Do you think anyone here is married?
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Interesting thought, Keating…
A near-perfect replay of the descent of Rome into the Dark Ages, actually…
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Anyways, your reading comprehension is below that of a mongoloid. Do you think anyone here is married?
I agree. I have an uncle who is a mongoloid.
He can make sandwiches.
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I’ve been reading this site for awhile now and enjoy the posts, I haven’t commented before but I do have a question for the men on this particular topic.
The vast majority of professional, white collar men that I’ve known are specifically looking for a wife who is highly degreed and/or a high earner. They insist that she continues working when their children are young and the few women I know who’ve actually balked at leaving their babies in daycare are constantly harassed by their men to resume earning. Of the thirty to forty women I know, all with two or more children under the age of ten, I only know of two, besides myself, who stay home with their husband’s full blessing and loving support.
My questions is: Where are all of the men who actually want a traditional wife and relationship for raising a well balanced, happy family? Where are all of the men who want to be the head of the household and allow their women to be wives and mothers first rather than breadwinners?
I’m serious, this isn’t a snarky question. I should probably add that the age range I’m talking about is men between 35 & 50.
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To give a non-snarky answer, those men probably realize that if their wife is not also a high earner, they are going to get raped in divorce court if she ever leaves them.
For men, being the higher earning party exposes you to a huge financial and personal risk at all times, beyond just being married (which is already pretty dangerous for a male).
The only thing that surprises me is that you are finding men who want to get married at all. For myself and my friends (late 20s through late 30s), the majority of us do not want to get married, and most of us are high achieving / high earning men (lawyers, doctors, bankers, etc).
I suspect, Daphne, that traditional men will return when laws do not make them criminals immediately upon getting married.
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Daphne,
If you seriously are looking for such people, look in religious communities–it is there that you will find most of the people who put beliefs ahead of personal interest.
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As has been said, you’ll find more of such men in religious communities, but only mariginally so.
Why? Because a high earning man who has a SAHM as a wife is the guy who gets gang-raped in court if a divorce happens. That scenario is quite ruthlessly punished by the divorce courts, and hence men who have any lick of sense and are high earners will simply not put themselves in that situation. It’s a very rational response to the legal system.
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To give a snarky answer (!) did you seriously just ask some variation of “where have all the good men gone”?
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An only semi-snarky answer is that they have been hunted into extinction. After observing the workings of the family courts for a while, it appears that one of the worst things a man can do to a woman is allow her to “become accustomed to a lifestyle.” Men are assessed huge financial penalties in cases where the marriage breaks down and the wife has stayed at home. Add to that the penalties assessed against the man for “making the woman sacrifice her career”, and a man has to be very traditional-minded as well as a relatively high earner in order to take that course of action.
For the men at the higher end of the age range you give, most of them have aged out of the mating years and don’t have any real interest in starting a family at that age. They are also the group who has lived their entire adult lives as the targets of feminist/womanist man-bashing and there is a significant mentality among them of calling women’s bluff and making them backup their BS by being as independent as they claim.
Age 35 is pretty old to be looking for husband/provider material. Most men of this age have either been married one or multiple times before, and have lost all their innocence and illusions about marriage, or are settled in the bachelor lifestyle. They have a pretty good handle on what their earning capacity is and will be, and the tradeoff of being locked into having to earn enough to support a wife and children versus being able to have a better work/life balance and more leisure time is very unattractive.
35 is probably about 10 years too late to be looking for a marriage-minded man. Such men will want to become involved with fertile young women in their peak childbearing years and by age 35 most men like that already have teenage children. Few men in their late 40s are interested in starting a family at that age – they don’t want to be mistaken for their kids’ grandparents at their HS graduation.
So, the summary answer to your question is that most of the men in the age group you mentioned who are traditional minded would have married 10-25 years ago. If they are on the market again it is because they have been through the meat grinder of the family courts and few of them are anxious to repeat that experience. I know a young man in his mid-30s with 2 young children who recently made the statement to me that he cannot imagine meeting a woman who would do anything other than make his life worse and less pleasant.
There are too many veterans of the Gender Wars in the age group you mention for you to find very many potential husbands among them.
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@Daphne
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The current laws in the US and the pool of women of child-bearing age don’t allow for a man to be head of the household in the traditional sense. Anyone who says otherwise hasn’t come to terms with reality. Once you put that ring on her finger, she owns you, period.
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Yes. This is a standard one. Apparently it is my fault I did not pick the ‘right woman’ and the solution to my ‘problem’ is that I should go out and pick another woman and hope she is the ‘right’ one.
Hold on. My wife committed crimes. Kidnapping, perjury, theft and extortion. For some reason I am responsible for this other adults actions because I picked the ‘wrong’ woman. And the woman is NOT responsible for her actions because, well, because she is a woman and is obviously privileged to be above the law. And all those other women out there are such crap human beings that they think that a man who is the victim of crimes committed by a female perpetrator somehow ‘brought it on himself’.
Young men take note. Women believe they can commit crimes with impunity and hold YOU accountable for the crimes committed against you. If that does not make women complete crap nowadays I don’t know what does.
What do women say about this? Nothing. What do women say about sitting on juries and judging women who commit crimes against men? Nothing. So far I have two women willing to sit on a jury to try my ex. It’s like pulling teeth. Women are crap. I’m prepared to say it. I’m prepared to back it up with evidence. And women just respond with blah, blah, blah.
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LOL! Good one.
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Not really, Snarky. I don’t think the men looking for high earners are bad guys at all, I believe they’ve programmed by the past thirty years of liberal doggerel just like the women. But, it does seem to me that many of you (and them) are saying they ideally want one thing then demand quite another in actuality.
The divorce laws given as a reason makes sense, men do get the short end of the stick when a marriage ends in court. My personal observations of the many married couples in our circle have shown that the happier couples are ones that are modeled on more traditional dynamics; the wives don’t bitch about their husbands, they keep themselves fit and attractive, they still like to have sex with their men, take pride in domestic skills and raising good children. Their husbands act like stand-up men and fathers, no pussies in that bunch. No divorces either.
One thing that stands out in stark relief between the women who work and the women who don’t (at least in my upscale circle) is the lack of respect the workers show their husbands in public. Bitchy comments, unkind, humiliating stories told in front of others and get more than a half a glass of wine down their throats and you’ll hear about their horrible sex lives, how much they hate it or dread Saturday night. So many of these women are miserable creatures. I do feel sorry for their husbands, but I wonder if it’s just that they’re natural born, nasty shrews or if they’d be happier, softer, have more respect for the men they married if he owned the mantle of Head Of Household.
Apologies for going on so long. This is one of those subjects that interest me greatly. I’m the mother of three sons and I worry they won’t find the kind of love and fine relationship that their father and I share.
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Anyways, your reading comprehension is below that of a mongoloid. Do you think anyone here is married?
Do you honestly think I READ most of the posts or comments, here? No, I scan for ones that seem lucid and possibly are coming from someone who has the ability to understand logic and reality….I’d never pretend to “read” here.
Second, I don’t think that I implied that “everyone here is married” nor do I care. I am neither for or against marriage in general. It’s not for me, I think it’s a silly and antiquated concept….but that is just for myself. I could care less whether no one on earth ever marries again….or if everyone but ME is married. Either way….marriage is a choice, so I still fail to see what ANY of you men are up in arms about.
You know the old saying “I told my doctor it hurts when I do this___” So the doctor says: “Well don’t do that, then.”
I just don’t see why you are all so hateful and disdainful of marriage…..but then turn around and say “most of us here are NOT married”. So what do you care then? I know I don’t care who’s getting married or not getting married……because it doesn’t affect me.
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@Rebel, your mention of the rats study prompted a Google search. The paper is by John B. Calhoun and is called “Population Density and Social Pathology”.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1501789/ …appears to allow a download of the PDF but all I see is the first page.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Calhoun …summarizes the man and the paper. Oddly, this Wikipedia entry omits any mention of the large proportion of male rats that turned gay. (Is this omission on purpose? It’s surely not a politically correct finding.)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2636191/ …has a deeper summary and some comments about the paper’s impact.
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Seems only fair. Aren’t you the same guys who “blame” the woman for picking a “bad boy” or a “abusive bad guy”? I’ve heard that come from misogynists more than a few times regarding a woman who gets abused, cheated on, or dumped by a “bad boy”.
Guess the same applies to you.
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Daphne,
Thanks for the follow-up comment. I guess I had misinterpreted you!
There’s an article which relates to this very issue … it’s from 2007 but Angry Harry linked to it just today:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-467390/Househusband-backlash-high-flying-wives-ditch-men-em-em-wanted-stay-home.html
“high-flying wives ditch men they wanted to stay at home”
See, when women exhibit this kind of behaviour en masse, the question men are asking stops being “what do women want?” and becomes “who cares what women want?” Clearly, what they say they want isn’t good enough for them. And the burdens for this will always fall on the man, who loses his children despite being the primary carer.
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LR wrote Do you honestly think I READ most of the posts or comments, here?
Well, that explains it. Sort of makes you wonder why she comes over here at all…
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porkchop December 15, 2009 at 9:35 am
“The current laws in the US”
How many times am I going to have to repeat myself on this site before someone with a brain actually confirms in the Blacks Law Dictionary or via all the links I have posted that Legislation and Statutes are NOT LAWS!
Spearhead is about “piercing the shield of ignorance. And one of the most important points most people here are ignorant about is the FACT that statutes and legislation are NOT LAWS. The people in parliaments and governments DO NOT CREATE LAWS. Until you stop mistakenly calling statutes and legislation laws you will not get that you do not need to obey them.
Until that simple sentence sinks into the rather impervious skulls of people they are going to continue to be slaves to their masters and so they should be. People who are wilfully ignorant should be robbed blind and abused. Serves them right for not educating themselves!
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Daphne December 15, 2009 at 8:46 am
“My questions is: Where are all of the men who actually want a traditional wife and relationship for raising a well balanced, happy family?”
They saw what happened to men like me and they have realised that there is no such thing as a ‘traditional wife’ any more and so they don’t want any of the crappy women available.
“Perhaps the most tragic thing about this is that the few women who really are the right women for men”
Remember, these women are NOT taking action on the behalf men either. Bad luck. They get tarred with the same brush.
“In short, replacing a male in medical school with a female will, on average, cut productivity in half.”
Adding women to ANY job generally cuts productivity in half and in many cases it is worse than that. Areas like software development are like this. It does not matter how many women you add. None of them can write good software.
Mrs. Pilgrim December 14, 2009 at 5:07 pm
“If you hate women, do not pursue it.”
Gents, this is how women lie to you by deception…they try to tie in ‘woman hatred’ with not persuing marriage. I love women. I was married 18 years. I don’t hate women. It’s just that women are crap and not worth marrying.
Lady Raine December 15, 2009 at 7:49 am
“Okay this premise of a “man-drought” is ridiculous.”
They are talking about finding men stupid enough to marry, not just stupid enough to have sex with them. If you think there is no ‘man drought’ around marriage come to germany. Even the most amazingly beautiful women can not find a man even close to interested in marrying them. All the women I date are trying to get men to marry them. I am just one in the line they are trying to close that deal with.
Snark December 15, 2009 at 10:17 am
“”who cares what women want?” Clearly, what they say they want isn’t good enough for them. And the burdens for this will always fall on the man, who loses his children despite being the primary carer.”
Yes, my fav#1 recently said to me that “women have no idea what they want, they need to be told what they want by a man and then told to be happy, and then they will be happy”. I think she is correct.
My ex had demands that, in the end, were just stupid. She wanted the right to lie. The right to steal. Just more, more, more stuff for her in order to ‘make her happy’.
But no amount of ‘things’ makes a person happy. Happiness comes from personal choice and inner fulfullment. Sure, getting some things you like such as plenty of good lovemaking helps. People mistake my comment “I was not happy with my marriage and not happy with my ex” with “I was not happy in and of myself.” My son survived cancer and walks the face of Gods green earth still. THAT is something I am very happy about. Men can be happy in the toughest of circumstances. Indeed, when we ‘rough it’ going camping etc we are sometimes the happiest we can be. Women can’t be happy with anything. And who cares what makes them happy anyway? That’s THEIR problem. I’d like to have a woman and ‘make her happy’ but I know now it’s impossible so I don’t do it any more. I do what I want to do and tell the woman she should be happy with that. Pretty much they are.
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@Lady Raine
Your comment illustrates one very significant difference between men and women. (Many/most) women are pragmatic and focused only on how a given set of circumstances affects them. As you said……“I don’t care…….because it doesn’t affect me.”
My considered conclusion is that the reason for this is rooted in female evolutionary biology. e.g. “How do I feed my infant today?“ Your female human ancestors who did not think this way did not successfully propagate their genes.
(Some/a minority of) men do NOT think this way, for reasons that I think are also rooted in evolutionary biology. e.g. “How do I get my family/the tribe through the winter?”
For the most part, it is beta males who think this way, though I think the alpha/beta dichotomy is artificial – most men have a mix of alpha and beta traits.
To get to the point, female pragmatism makes women poor stewards of civilization, because they do not consider and ultimately do not care about abstract (to them) future consequences.
My guess is you will prove my point by dismissing my opinion out of hand because my opinion has no effect on you.
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@Globalman
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I’m sure the corrupt judge will understand when I tell him I will not pay alimony or child support because we are dealing with statutes and legislation, not laws. The judge will realize I do not need to obey them and will drop it at that. Global, I’m being sarcastic btw.
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Well…not a ‘right woman’ story but not bad…..a story from my weekend.
I am a high beta but definitely not alpha..I can play alpha but I am not. A mans got to know his limitations…So I tried an experiment on the weekend. I was with my fav#1 with whom I am a beta. I’ve known her for two years and we’ve dated 20 months or so. She knows me as well as any woman. She was there for me in my lowest times. She has seen me at my worst and most upset states. She has been very kind to me.
So we have this conversation about alphas and betas etc and she listens to it all. And my experiment was then to act ‘alpha’ for the day even though she clearly knows I am beta and knows I was acting and knows it was an experiment. I tell her all about a date I had with fav#2 about 5 weeks ago before I went to Australia. Lots of details but not ‘too much’. I made sure I listed ALL the things fav#2 did that were ‘better’.
Result? Well, it surprised me but won’t surprise the other alphas. Instead of being ‘upset’ I was telling her that she was second rate at some things she immediately pulled out all stops to do better than fav#2 in those areas I had told her she was down on. And she tried harder all around as well. And not only that, she was chirpier and happier than she has been ‘normally’.
Every time I said, ‘yep, that was better than fav#2′ she took great pride and joy in doing that. It was like she was competing with the ‘other woman’ right there. She even put on lingerie and danced for me to ‘November Rain’ by Guns and Roses. She picked it because she knows it is one of my favourite songs and she wanted to dance to a song she knows I am going to play at least once a week..LOL!!. I will never, ever be able to listen to that song again without seeing her dancing to it. WOW! Just WOW. That is what I call ‘smoking’.
I really have to try this alpha stuff more and not just attract women with it in the first place. I thought this woman was trying as hard as she could to get me to marry her. Nope. She had another gear to change up to yet that she was holding out on….I told her before I left that I was going to have to be ‘more alpha’ with her. She seemed to be happier as well. I think she really wants a ‘strong man’ meaning more alpha.
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I started seeing this back in the mid-1970s. I remember one night going out for drinks with some of my co-workers. One of them was well known for being caustic and nasty, but it was usually ignorable. Shere Hite’s report on female sexuality had just come out and she was going on and on about how great it was. This was back in the days before I had learned how much some women loved their hostility toward men, so I asked the obvious conversational opening question – “well, what did she have to say?”
“That you men are ALL LOUSY LOVERS!” was the answer.
I assumed she intended it to bother me and the other men present, but what I remember most about it was how vicious she seemed. I had absorbed the liberal dogma at that point, and would never have done something so awful as to “oppress” a woman into staying at home, so I tended to socialize with liberal career-minded women. Perhaps if I had been more traditional myself, and looked for a woman who wanted to stay at home and be a mom, marriage might have appealed to me. But, my older brother had done that in the early 60s before anyone had ever heard of “2nd wave feminism” and ended up married to a morose, depressive, perpetually helpless woman that he ended up despising. He stuck it out until their youngest was in college, then gave her the house and alimony and got out.
I think that is a very realistic worry, particularly if you don’t have a good relationship with them and they react by rejecting everything about their parents lives. That was what happened to a lot of my generation.
They are going to have some real challenges. The economy is such that it will be very difficult for them to make enough money to support their wives to stay at home. In order to get established they may have to defer marriage until most of the women their age have a track record of bad experiences and betrayed trust that makes them poor candidates for wives.
As others have suggested here, conservative religious communities are where you are most likely to find people who still hold on to more of the traditional values.
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@Daphne
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I don’t think many of us are demanding stay-at-home wives. I think it is fair to say that most on this site are not interested in getting married to a Western woman at all. The guys you describe belong to a large but shrinking group of men who are unknowingly at the frontline of the genderwar. The issue you bring up, like most cultural issues, is complicated. One issue that is a piece of the puzzle is that most Western women aren’t satisfied with the stable provider types you describe. They get bored with marriage to these kinds of men, and typically want and desire physical relationships with bad boys/sociopaths. Once this pattern is established in their youth, they typically do not change. The only thing that changes is their ability to attract the bad boys, which is why they “settle down†with one of the guys you describe. In most cases, the marriage is doomed to failure from the start. They don’t love the stable provider, as you describe, they have quite a bit of contempt for him.
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I think Lady Same-ole-lame-ole might actually make a good honorary MRA, only problem is, she hates men just as much as women. In fact, she really hates everything….maybe she should be a SRA: Sociopaths Rights Activist. We all know how sociopaths have it soooo hard. They’re always being judged, just for following their nature. No one understands how tough it is to be shunned, just for torturing and killing little babies right before you slice them up for stew. Its for her family afterall. She has to provide. Right LR? Its all about feeding the family. Its not your problem that baby meat is so tender and succulent, and tastes extra good when the babies andrenaline surges through the muscles right before preperation. Its the baby’s fault. Back me up here Lady Cain (damn, I’m having to go biblical for ryhmes).
@Charles Martel-
Your post is hilarious. I was forced to go for morbid shock value, as your witty retort couldn’t be outdone.
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Welmer, as usual, your articles are rich and insightful. Lots of potential things to comment on.
I see the fundamental problem with the “right woman” archetype here in that it’s entirely positioned as a passive or exogenous concept. The corollary to this type of “right woman” hypothesis is that she exists “out there”–unchanging and outside of one’s control. Much like winning the lottery, she is something that happens TO YOU, the male member of the species, rather than something you actively bring about through deft management or control.
Yet if there’s one message at all in “game” it’s that by becoming aware of yourself and the social economy you do two things: 1) you more quickly winnow the field of undesirables, and 2) you better manage and actually re-shape the resulting women in the process. In this manner, the “right woman” is not something that happens TO you in some passive sense and while you go about your other business. The “right” woman is actually something (or someone) you create and develop. Rather than something mythical and out-there, the “right woman” is better thought of as a trait or feature that already exists inside a great many women. It’s merely lying dormant, albeit perhaps buried under false programming, and waiting for you to train, demand, to bring out.
No doubt about it. It takes a shit-load of work to find. Oddly, it takes even more work, once awoken and in an LTR, to maintain and continually develop that “right woman.”
I understand the world is chock-full of bitchy women. Feminism (and materialism) have exerted a profound effect on the female half of the species. But I’m also tired of the beta-ized man or the woman-gone-done-me-wrong type of attitude that I see in some men. Both modes of thinking feed the concept of the “right woman” as passive (as something that happens TO you) and outside one’s control.
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Not sure how widely this is known, but Hite’s report was utter bunk. Her entire sample was women belonging to feminist organisations. So no shit, feminists are going to say that they are dissatisfied with men sexually. Also, only 5% of those polled even responded.
The problem was that Hite attempted to extrapolate from this data to ‘women as a whole’, which is utterly fallacious, not to mention unethical.
But – just like the ‘one in four women is raped’ mantra, which was based on similarly faulty and dishonest methodology, this idea that men are inherently bad in bed seeped into the popular consciousness.
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Okay, well I believe you then that this “man-drought” exists. But you are describing what I called a “good-man-drought” and not an actual “reproductive breakdown” of the system….which is what I think of when someone says “man-drought”.
I am genuinely glad that marriage isn’t my thing. It sounds like my weird, solitary nature is the way to go right now!!! I would neither want to be a man nor a woman out there on a “spouse-hunt” the way things are today.
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Yes, I have always wanted to start a cult. It’s like having slaves, but they don’t complain AND you don’t have to pay them.
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Daphne,
Here would be my advice for your children:
1 – Tell them not to get married. You can live with a woman, and you can have children with her, and still retain far more control over your life, your relationship, and your legal rights than you can if you get married. Make sure to pick the right state for this (some are more adversarial towards single life than others); I am assuming you are in the US here. If not, YMMV.
2 – Tell them to look for women that are, shall we say, women. By this, I mean either the incredible rare American woman who is still caring and likes men, but far more likely to be a foreign woman. Living in another country, if plausible, is also not a bad idea (especially if you avoid Western Europe) on this front. John Nada, etc, will know more on that front. Agreed that conservative religious communities are also a better bet.
3 – If they do insist on getting married, do it the right way. Make sure to get an ironclad pre-nup with lawyers present for both sides so that it will be enforced, and spell out clearly the issues that can be covered by one. Make sure your sons understand that they are about two and a half times more likely to have their wife divorce them than they are to divorce her, and make sure the agreement reflects that; a pre-nup should provide a disincentive for a wife to cheat or treat her husband badly, then divorce.
4 – Train your sons to have a backbone, to stand up to women, and not to take their shit. Also train them to quietly record most of their conversations and interactions in private, or that grow the least bit heated, as otherwise it’s too easy to falsely accuse them of misconduct.
Even so, the best advice is probably summed up as this when dealing with Western women: don’t. The odds are not in your favor. You might get lucky and not get burned, but that’s true of Russian Roulette as well, and I don’t see that as an argument to play that game.
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@LR-
Did you actually just deflect with humor? You might be growing on me. I actually hate you a little less now. This isn’t part of your witchcraft is it? Team, I may need an intervention. She showed me a softer side, which makes me think she is capable of shame and remorse. Or do you think she was being serious? LR, your kids don’t call you “Leader” do they?
It did take Nixon to negotiate peace with the Chinese.
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Stranger things have happened.
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Most men I knew regarded it as nothing but a hit-piece on men – just like Kate Millet’s and Susan Brownmiller’s nonsense and Mary Koss’s BS a decade later. We were getting pretty used to it by then.
I was under the impression that her sample was drawn from surveys published in magazines like Cosmo and Redbook. I wasn’t aware that she used feminist organizations.
Growing up in a very sexually repressed environment, it didn’t surprise me at all that the majority of women hated sex.
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Jabherwochie:
Careful man, it has a vagina.
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@Jabherwochie & Lady Raine
Yes, she did. I like her. She’s my homie after all, as I will always consider Allentown PA my birthplace in the USA, so to speak.
What she wont say is that she likes hanging out with intelligent men, which is why she’s here. I’m sure that her tire-changing, CNC-programming skills don’t exactly make it easy for her to connect with the fems at the Lehigh Valley Mall.
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Women’s immune systems are stronger during pregnancy and lactation, which is one of the reasons that they need so many calories. Women died off from childbirth complications.
Zed,
Your birth rate hypothesis is true on the global scale. But within a single country, it is religion and the much-detested “traditional values” that determines the relative birth rate. Even globally, more religious/traditional countries have higher birth rates, even when they have similar living standards. That is why America has a much higher birthrate than Germany.
Monogamy is not dead, it is merely concentrated. And those who are monogamous are the ones with the highest birth rate and the most successful offspring, and are therefore the ones who determine the future.
Mate selection used to be handled within a cultural/religious group. Men and women were both raised to be complementary mates for the other. So you could merely pick someone attractive from the other half and be relatively sure that they would be an acceptable mate.
Now people are raised to… well, I’m not really sure what they are raised to be. Consumers, I suppose. Anyway, this sort of mate-grooming is still going on in sub-cultures (such as the Mormons, Hasidic Jews, devout Catholics and Hindus) and these cultures have the most successful marriages and the highest birth rates.
If you are outside of one of these environments, the chances of meeting a suitable mate probably drop considerably. It doesn’t mean it’s impossible, but it’s improbable.
I am not the product of a devout Catholic environment and I see how much more difficult it is for me to squeeze myself into a proper wifely role. Those women I know who are raised in it find it much simpler and more natural; their personalities and character are molded from birth. Whereas for me, it is like putting a square peg in a round hole. Taking the strident child of two liberal feminists and turning her into a “proper Catholic wife” is a never-ending undertaking.
It’s something I resent about born-and-raised conservative Christians looking down their noses at the newer members for our small foibles. We’re being critiqued on the fact that our neckline is too low, our laugh is too loud, or our speech immodest. They fail to recognize that we’re still fighting to digest the enormity of the Ten Commandments or struggling to grasp the very concept of modesty. It’s arrogance and a lack of empathy and I’ve seen it drive away potential converts. Reminds me a bit of the Pharisees.
Went off on a bit of a tangent there…
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Not unless we’re referring to different reports. My sources claim that Hite exclusively used feminist organisations, and only 5% of those polled responded.
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Yours is probably correct. As I remember, it made a small splash and then was forgotten fairly quickly.
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Well that’s actually the problem. While the report itself may have been forgotten, it was like a stone thrown into a stream. Enough stones make the stream flow in a different direction. The message certainly remained in popular culture. It’s like a bullet. Whoosh! And it’s gone. But someone is firing at us.
Had it remained in the public eye a while longer, it would have been openly debunked and Hite’s reputation damaged. Instead of which, debunkings are limited to occasions like these, read by a handful of people.
The message remains.
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@ Charles Martel, zed, Novaseeker, Welmer especially, and others.
Incredible thread. I think this is the best summary I’ve yet seen of everything that a man who has not taken the red pill needs to read.
@Novaseeker
I think I have one thing to add to the discussion that was going on in the early part of the thread.
I distinguish between two instincts for women. The hypergamous instinct (get knocked up by the most alpha man). And the provision instinct (trade sex for provision/protection), which could also be called the pair-bond instinct. I believe these two instincts can be at times working together, at times in conflict, and most importantly, rise and fall in relationship to each other in how strongly they are expressed depending on the specific situations. It will always be wrong to give an absolute that women will act on just one instinct or the other because both are always present.
In harsh times like Novaseeker is talking about, the hypergamous instinct will tend to be more suppressed or sublimated to the the provision instinct. But it is still there and will be active whenever conditions for it arise.
In easier times the provision instinct becomes less important and the situation is reversed. The hypergamous instinct will rise in importance.
And what we have seen in modern times is a combination of resources being as abundant as ever, and the oft-noted substitution of the state as the provider/protector. And it’s unclear to me whether the all out cultural attack on the instinct (Feminism-Marxism) is simply a natural reaction correlated with the resource abundance or its own separate cause.
Nevertheless the result is as powerful a submission of this provision/pair-bond instinct as has ever taken place. And therefore the hypergamous instinct is now run rampant.
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How does that make them more successful? That has nothing to do with actual marriage. It doesn’t take any “skill” to reproduce. I don’t see what that has to do with marriage at all except prove that “married people in lesser cultures have more babies”.
Wow, really? We are aware of this already. We call them “Welfare Recipients” and I’d hardly consider their ability to pop out babies as a show of “success” in marriage.
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Do What Thou Wilt—-
“Ray-Kudos on the Scientology and Babalon Working references but you’re critiquing Crowley from an unprovable assertion that the teachings of a particular religion are objectively true, with supremacy over all other belief systems. Thats a little like saying a particular basketball team is perfect because it’s you’re favorite, and disregard all evidence to the contrary.
Crowley, Parsons, and L Ron were all trying to teach us that we have a creative spark inside.”
no they werent, they were specifically, by the admission of their own (proudly spoken!) words, trying to “raise the spirit of the Goddess Babylon” to rule over the modern/new age
in sociopolitical terms, they were trying to FULLY re-institute matriarchy in america, and across the planet
and — with a LOT of help from other sources, economic and political etc — they essentially succeeded in both the (pseudo) religious and practical aspects of their “work”
now, amidst matriarchy spread all over the western world, here y’all are on a men’s site, one of the very few, tiny voices of objection to that encompassing matriarchy, defending the very people who intentionally placed western boys and men in their chains
crowley, hubbard, and rocket jack were all not merely feminists, they were matriarchalists — so now that their politics and philosophy have conquered, here you are rubbing mens’ faces in their subjugation, and praising the methods and mentalities of their enslavers
massive dissonance, capital DIS
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A large portion of what I say is intended as sarcastic or as a “ask me a stupid question and I’ll give you a stupid answer” type rebuttal. So, yes.
Everything is part of my witchcraft. Come to me my children….
I was being both serious and sarcastic. Obviously, a cult never ends in anything but a shoot-out so I wouldn’t REALLY want one, but if you toss aside the obvious “cons”….I can see why someone would want to start one.
It would be just like having free servants (slaves) except they signed up voluntarily….and are too stupid to know how bad it sucks. IE: Paradise.
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Wait.
Is it me or did Raine just call Mormons, Catholics, Hasidic Jews, and Hindus “lesser cultures”?
Your true colors as a racist, supremacist, and bigot are showing, dear. (Along with your inability to understand facts, such as Mormons having, on average, both higher income and more children than other Americans – whoops!)
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“It would be just like having free servants (slaves) except they signed up voluntarily….and are too stupid to know how bad it sucks. IE: Paradise.”
Sorta like stupid men being lured into and brain-washed by the modern mass cult of “Gyno-Dominus Vaginacus”, ie. Feminism.
I feel like your learning. And put your twat back in your panties. It was just a back handed compliment, and minor one at that. We, and by we, I mean you, have a long way to go. First, you must annihilate your ego. We are all allowed to have an ego, even big ones, but you let yours get out of control and therefore you are not allowed to have one period. Think of it as Ego menopause. Once the hot flashes and bouts of rage pass, you’ll be able to think more clearly.
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“Your true colors as a racist, supremacist, and bigot are showing, dear. ”
Actually, she is quite proud of all that. She thinks they are a testement to her strength. Bare with me. I’m going to try a softer approach on her. She doesn’t like the blow torch to the vaginal wall technique, so I’m going to use a nice lubed up set of anal beads to see if I can make her soul tingle a bit. Somewhere, she has a pleasent side. I’ll either dig deep enough to find it, or I’ll kill her due to the inherent dangers of such experimental psychic surgery. I’m all about setting up win-win scenerios.
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Yet if there’s one message at all in “game†it’s that by becoming aware of yourself and the social economy you do two things: 1) you more quickly winnow the field of undesirables, and 2) you better manage and actually re-shape the resulting women in the process. In this manner, the “right woman†is not something that happens TO you in some passive sense and while you go about your other business. The “right†woman is actually something (or someone) you create and develop. Rather than something mythical and out-there, the “right woman†is better thought of as a trait or feature that already exists inside a great many women. It’s merely lying dormant, albeit perhaps buried under false programming, and waiting for you to train, demand, to bring out.
Absolutely. A woman that you find to be worthy of engaging in an LTR should have the base characteristics that you identify from the outset…but for her to become the “RIGHT” woman, you have to be the “RIGHT” man.
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Lady Raine-
I dub you my squire of RA rank (Rights activist). One day, under my tuteledge and patient touch, you will earn your M. First thing you need to do, go out and buy a dress. They are quite freeing from what I understand, truely an upside to being a women. Then wear it. After that, learn how to make Fedrz a sandwich. You may mail it to him. (Fedrz, don’t eat it! We can’t even come close to trusting her yet. Just verify that it looks edible and then feed it to a neighborhood dog. Observe said dog for spasms and vomitting. Report back to me.) Ready my Lady. Go.
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Daphne:
One thing that stands out in stark relief between the women who work and the women who don’t (at least in my upscale circle) is the lack of respect the workers show their husbands in public. Bitchy comments, unkind, humiliating stories told in front of others and get more than a half a glass of wine down their throats and you’ll hear about their horrible sex lives, how much they hate it or dread Saturday night. So many of these women are miserable creatures. I do feel sorry for their husbands, but I wonder if it’s just that they’re natural born, nasty shrews or if they’d be happier, softer, have more respect for the men they married if he owned the mantle of Head Of Household.
David: Agreed. I think women simply aren’t happy in an “equal” marriage. One day people will learn that the traditional idea of the man as Head of House is actually best.
I suspect in older times, wives simply had more ingrained respect for their husbands. But it is harder now for a man to convey an impression of being an Alpha Male, when his wife meets men in the workplace, sees them in magazines and on TV, men who seem to have what her husband lacks.
I have been “running game” on my wife for several weeks now. That is, I have been treating her AS IF she were a traditional, submissive wife. (She has good instincts already, but I am building on those). It seems to be working quite well.
More later. I have to go now.
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Ohhhh Jabher–
Keep the horsey in the barn, buddy.
I have several “pleasant sides” and also have been wearing dresses for a long time.
As for my ego, you shalt not rain on my parade.
You are no Hannibal Lecter!
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Even Hannibal Lector wouldn’t eat you, LR.
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porkchop December 15, 2009 at 11:11 am
“They are called divorce laws by many people, and everyone gets the gist of what I’m talking about.”
Yes, they are. And that is a hoax. The idea is to make people believe they have to ‘obey the law’. But spearhead is about ‘piercing the shield of ignorance’ and the MOST important piece to pierce is the idea that we are dealing with laws not legislation and statutes.
600 years ago ‘everyone’ knew the world was flat as well. It didn’t make it true and it didn’t make it a useful distinction except for the leaders.
While you (and all the other ‘law’ ignorant men here) believe you are dealing with ‘laws’ and you have had drummed into you ‘no-one is above the law’ you will not go looking for the remedy which is to simply rescind your consent to be governed by these laws. A man in a common law country can rescind his consent and re-capture his strawman in about 20 days elapsed. He can simply go ‘free man’ in one day by issuing his claim of right which will not be challenged.
So, in my book, any man complaining about ‘feminism’ who has not rescinded his consent to be subject to feminist statutes/legislation, now that I have been telling them that they can do this, is just a ‘whining loser’ not willing to do his homework. Period.
“I’m sure the corrupt judge will understand when I tell him I will not pay alimony or child support because we are dealing with statutes and legislation, not laws.”
I just stood in a court in Australia and told the magistrate words to the effect:
“I have issued my claim of right to the Queen, Prime Minister, the Governer General and the Attorney General. In my claim of right I claim you have no jurisdiction to force your adjudication services on me. This has been agreed by none-response and acquiesence and I have issued a permanent estopple. You have no right to force your adjudication services on me without my consent and I don’t consent.”
He replied “that is a fantasy”
To which I replied that it does not matter what he says, it matters what he is willing to put on an affidavit under penalty of perjury.
I have charged one magistrate with common law theft and hope to get the second one. And I have noticed the Australian PM and AG they too will be charged with accessory after the fact to common law theft if they do not direct their employees to obey the common law of Australia. I even noted that it seems lawful to assassinate such magistrates under the Geneva Conventions.
So yes. There is a proper way to tell the judge that you refuse his offered adjudication services. The same way you tell a McDonalds burger flipper you don’t want to eat his burgers. “No. I do not consent to avail of your services. Good day.”
There is no legal difference between a judge serving in a UCC court (which they all are) and a McDonalds burger flipper. NONE AT ALL. They can be treated the same way. You just have to know what you are doing.
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It makes them more successful from an evolutionary point of view because people who don’t reproduce don’t pass on their genes & as long as they take care of their kids its no ones business how many they have.
You are such a dumb cunt & have no clue on many things before you give out your worthless opinion.
The Amish take no welfare or social security & have a tfr north of 6 kids per women. In fact you are a welfare bum compared to them because you probably use far more of the socialized services like public transport among other things which they avoid.
And Hindus happen to be one of the more successful immigrant groups in US along with Jews & Asians. As I remember they had the lowest divorce rate in US at 5% among all the major religious groups surveyed so they don’t have that many fellow single mom wastrels (your sisters) living on dole.
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Global,
If it is as easy as you portray to shake off the abuse the legal system dishes out to men in a divorce proceeding here in the USA, write a coherent article on it and hopefully Welmer will post it. If you can intelligently prove your point, I would like to read such an article. However, your angst-filled off topic rants that you jump into threads with have become tiresome.
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Reinholt,
Yes. Practicing religious people generally have higher income, better health, more successful marriages, and more children. Those four things are generally correlated and tend to feed off of each other. Orthodox Jews do especially well. Perhaps because they are the most strict, although that’s just speculation on my part.
Many of you see strict rules as stifling but I find them freeing. The more things are defined and running smoothly and without comment or strife, the more time and effort one has to attend to other things.
Reproductive success is defined as the passing of genes onto the next generation in a way that they too can pass those genes on. So a people that manage to produce healthy, well-adjusted children at replacement-level or higher have, in fact, had reproductive success. I say “a people” because it’s possible to pass your genes on indirectly through blood relatives.
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The Amish are an excellent example; I live out near Amish country and run across them quite frequently. They have hordes of children and the kids are generally neatly dressed, well-behaved, highly literate and numerate, and healthy. Sounds like reproductive success to me. Their population is growing fast, but they cause so little trouble that nobody notices or minds.
From Wikepedia:
Rough estimates from various studies have placed their numbers at 125,000 in 1992, 166,000 in 2000, and 221,000 in 2008, for a growth rate of nearly 4% per year. From 1992 to 2008, population growth among the Amish in North America was 84%. During that time they established 184 new settlements and moved into six new states. In 2000, approximately 165,620 Old Order Amish resided in the United States, of which 73,609 were church members. The Amish are among the fastest-growing populations in the world, with an average of 6.8 children per family.
That’s a definite win.
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porkchop December 15, 2009 at 4:15 pm
“angst-filled off topic rants”
Angst? That’s your opinion. I have no angst. I’m living the best life I could invent. I challenge the notion that presenting the remedy for men to feminism can ever be truely ‘off topic’ around here. But hey, you are entitled to your opinion. That I challenge falsehoods repeated here over and over again? Well, someone has to tell you guys you are ignorant of how laws, statutes and legislation works. Someone has to keep pointing you to good sources of information. You guys seem too lazy to do it for yourselves.
“If it is as easy as you portray to shake off the abuse the legal system dishes out to men in a divorce proceeding here in the USA, write a coherent article on it and hopefully Welmer will post it.”
In case it escaped you I have offered to enter into an agreement with Welmer to provide copies of all my docs and the video of my court hearing so long as my name is kept out of the public eye. I have also, rather endlessly, provided links to sites that demonstrate these techniques work in all former british colonies.
It is only the extremely wilfully ignorant, like you, who ask me to “intelligently prove your point” when I have already provided a mountain of evidence to do so. How about you try reading my intro on the forums and actually clicking on the links…you know…the links I spent time putting together so that lazy ignorant men like you might not even have to go looking for the information to which I am refering because it’s right there in my intro to click on.
http://www.the-spearhead.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=42
And if you don’t like being called ‘lazy’ and ‘ignorant’ then how about you stop being so?
Do you guys have ANY idea how stupid you look every time you repeat the mantra that “the laws are biased and we can’t get out of that system”. You sound like brain dead zombies. Wake the f*** up already!
You say I am ‘tiresome’ repeating the truth to you in the face of your falsehoods? Well how tiresome do you think you guys look to me repeating your wilfully ignorant statments and then putting shit on me for pointing them out? Pretty f***ing tiresome I can assure you. Do you guys have any idea how committed you are to being ignorant?
Evidence. Here is a question. How many men here know how to complete a ‘Notice of Understanding and Intent and Claim of Right’? How many men here know how to claim a right? Go ahead. How many? I’ve been pointing this out on this forum for months and how many men have actually followed the links I provided to find out how to do it? Let me guess. None. Would I be right?
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pretty, kind, caring, not stupid, modest and helpful
I understand that those are qualities you may find the most attractive in a woman, but are they necessarily the most important qualities in a wife and mother? I would think fertility, honesty, frugality, humor, industriousness, housekeeping skills, loving and sacrificial behavior, loyalty, morality, spirituality, intelligence, stewardship, etc. would be more important. The woman you describe sounds rather colorless. Or was that the point?
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Globalman
When I first read you writing about statutes and common law, I was interested. I brought it to the attention of a man who has been involved in this for quite some time, and who I have great respect for. He told me of some very interesting incidents, which actually had lawyers scrambling about attempting to defeat it (and finding out that they could not). I am aware that an enormous amount of scams have been and are pulled on people every day (from birth), false paradigms meant to control, etc. I am fully aware of the ongoing scam uncovered by Marvin Bryer (the judge’s associations, etc.)–and most people simply are either unaware of this or refuse to believe it. It is however true, and Bryer has quite a record in LA county. I for one would love to ram this up their judicial asses. I am going to be leaving the US, however anything I can do to fight this (assisting other men to get out and fighting with tactics they cannot defeat) I will take full advantage of and make others aware of.
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Yes, Global, it has escaped me. If my name isn’t in the first line, I don’t typically read your Danny Bonaduce-like posts.
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To continue.
I would not simply recommend Christian patriarchy, as it is still instituted today in the West. I think we need a harsher form. Those of us who are Christians should place the hardest construction on scripture and Tradition in this regard.
I have a sneaking suspicion that more women would be interested in this kind of thing (from a “gina tingle” perspective) than in the often unappealing, sappy kind of “Christian headship” generally talked about. Much of the latter blathers on about concepts like “servant leadership”, with much emphasis on the husband’s love, which is taken to mean something like “licence for whatever the little woman wants”.
A little more emphasis on St Peter “as Sara called her husband Master”; on St Paul’s wifely obedience “in all things” and “see that she [the wife] shows respect”. That is what is really needed.
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“If it is as easy as you portray to shake off the abuse the legal system dishes out to men in a divorce proceeding here in the USA, write a coherent article on it and hopefully Welmer will post it.â€
In case it escaped you I have offered to enter into an agreement with Welmer to provide copies of all my docs and the video of my court hearing so long as my name is kept out of the public eye. I have also, rather endlessly, provided links to sites that demonstrate these techniques work in all former british colonies.
WTF? My point of reference regarding the response was not the laws in the former British colonies. I specifically stated:
The current laws in the US and the pool of women of child-bearing age don’t allow for a man to be head of the household in the traditional sense.
Your rant is even more pointless and idiotic than it first appeared.
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Wait, so are you saying that it’s rare for men and women to become doctors simply because they desire to help others, find cures, an interest in science, etc.? Or that there’s no such thing as wanting to be something just for the joy of it and because it matches you interest?
I’m not saying money doesn’t come into play, but when someone thinks of a career that they’ve always wanted either as a child or for the longest time, is money usually in the forefront as to why they want that career? Or maybe I’m just speaking for myself lol…..
Type 5,
Well the idea of “self-confidence” that Carl talked about in his quote isn’t my idea of self-confidence so…..
Nemo,
By who….just curious. It’s just that I never heard that before.
Acpeterro,
Great points in both posts
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Lady Raine, using your self as a personal example does not provide any compelling truth that Hestia’s statement is wrong.
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Actually I have never received any Child Support Payments nor any “Welfare” of any kind. I don’t even qualify for Welfare, Low-Cost Daycare, or any of the other freebies. I make too much, I only have one child, and I’m the wrong color (White). I hope your comment was meant in jest because I can assure you I’d be laughed right out of the Welfare Office if I even TRIED to get any “freebies” here in the U.S.
I’m assuming you live in a country where “being a single mother” gets you free stuff or public welfare. Here it’s based on income. I make WAY too much to qualify for and Welfare or the “Dole”.
And yes, I do understand that evolution requires reproduction. No, shit….really? My point was that it has NOTHING to do with marriage, happy marriages, bad marriages, or even monogamous ones. In my opinion it doesn’t reinforce or even apply to the original topic.
We are all aware that being married and using no birth control means you will probably help to contribute to the evolutionary chain. Sorry, but I thought the comment was just not applicable at all.
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Please show me those stats and what you consider a “practicing religion”.
Any religion that doesn’t allow people to use birth control and accepts ANY Welfare because of their own dumb religious beliefs is yet another vampire on the teet of my tax dollars.
I’m mostly referring to Catholics and their “Family Planning Method” which involves fucking like bunnies, popping out 10 kids because Jesus said it’s fine, and then Jesus ALSO tells them it’s fine to live on Welfare and that OTHER people (taxpayers) should have to pay for their religious choice to be weird and nasty.
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LR,
There have always been women such as you, who are financially independent and single mothers. And there will always be such women. But that doesn’t address the trend in aggregate. Also, it doesn’t take into account the severe financial and security burden of delinquent fatherless children. I’m not saying your son will be delinquent, but his chances of being so are much higher than my own.
Practicing a religion is measured by how often someone attends religious services. It’s a crude measure, but it works pretty well.
Here’s a start:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_and_religion
The general trend is that highly religious countries tend to be poorer. But within a country, the more religious are wealthier than the others. It seems the personal ideal situation is to be highly religious in a secularized country.
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And you are confusing NFP with the rhythm method.
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B & G–
Yes, well that was sort of what I was (offensively) getting at. What I meant by “lesser cultures” is that the religions and cultures that people are referencing here….tend to be the LESS modernized, more tightly knit within their own community types of faiths. I think it’s “tribal” attitude that keeps those faiths “successful” in marriages and births and also makes them either very poor amongst the masses….or very rich amongst their small communities.
Yes, I’m aware that single-parenting isn’t “ideal” for 99% of parents/children. I’m also not saying that it’s “better” than 2-parent households. Obviously 2 against 1 usually goes better.
But, ONE good parent is better than 2 bad ones. Kids who come from homes filled with parental arguing, fighting, shaming, cheating, and abuse are usually JUST as likely to “become a delinquent”. People like to forget that part and try to compare a single-parent household to a HEALTHY 2 parent-household and say “See, 2 parents are better!”
And then leave out that sometimes one of the parents is a “bad seed” like my son’s father is. I have no doubt that if I had stayed with his father, he’d have abused my son both verbally and physically, so the answer was very clear to me that in my case….
….One parent IS better than two.
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I don’t think there is a universal “ideal woman” for a man. I myself have hypothesized that if some men had chosen better women to associate with, marry, and have relationships with in their past (and quite possibly their present) that they may be less damaged, jaded, and bitter. Here’s the key part to that: Most men “find themselves” a little too late, and choose the wrong woman for them in their youth or early adulthood. The same goes for women. So many girls/women I know and talk to, have chosen real bastards and after time spent digging deeper into their individual situations, I have concluded that lack of a strong “self core” is to blame for most of them. If a girl is healthy and reasonably intelligent, there is no reason she should date an asshole. If a guy developed himself, has tested himself, and is truly and honestly aware of who he is, then he would have put a prompt end to a bad relationship with an evil, manipulative women. Unfortunately, we often have to explore such negative relations in order to gain the wisdom to avoid them. I think it becomes too late for some, and they cross the point of no return, so to speak. Basically, they may fail in removing themselves from bad dating patterns or unhealthy relationships and they then become damaged, permanently. My argument with finding better quality women is tied to so many poeple being generally self unaware for too long. This falls back on how a person was raised or not raised. One must go through a period in life and pull themselves away from outside influences completely, whether it’s parents, friends, school, or all of the these. A person must not become defined by or dependent on what certain groups or individuals think of them. So many are guilty of allowing other opinions to shape their choices and they can often be the wrong choices for said person. Different men have different ideals they wish a woman to have for them to want to spend time with them. I’m a fan of “shrinking” a person or situation, but I am also aware that this can allow people to wallow in or excuse themselves from poor choices and/or tainted belief systems. It’s to the point today that so many are “fucked up” that I almost assume that already. I’m curious how each person I meet has reacted to or adjusted from being fucked up. That is where the true test of character comes in. I give a wide birth for self ignorance with people under 25 becasue it is almost mandatory for them to be doing stupid things. But once older, I start to hold the individual responsible for what they have or have not admitted to themsleves and others, and their decisions made regarding love, sex, and life.
It begins and ends with the individual. We should strive for the prevention of damage and instead we have so many sources that deal in the aftermath. It’s a real shame. I truly feel for those who have been crushed or used or abused by another. I just don’t know how to help them heal, and apparently there are not enough good woman to go around.
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Yes, you’re right on the “natural rhythm method” or whatever….they ARE confusing. If I couldn’t use birth control, I’d just never have sex again.
In all seriousness, though from what I have seen….those methods are A LOT of work and STILL are pretty ineffective. I think I’d be more likely to try using leaves and sticks before I’d bother trying to “dodge the fertile times” and essentially use the “just have sex and pray you don’t get pregnant” method.
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Also, it doesn’t take into account the severe financial and security burden of delinquent fatherless children.
I think ALL women should take into consideration “Can I afford this child myself if my marriage or LTR ends?” Before EVER considering having a child.
I pay for my son strictly with MY income. Same with my home, my bills, my health insurance, and babysitters. I don’t “drain” society in any way with my choice and I don’t think ANY woman should do so intentionally. A woman should NOT have children based on “well I’m married and my hubbie loves me and would NEVER dick me over”.
That’s how this whole mess started. Women think the ring on the finger is magical and will ensure that her husbands never leaves her and that she’ll never have to worry about her babies starving. WRONG. I’d urge ALL women to consider whether they can (financially) sustain their children alone before even thinking about a family.
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I have no doubt that if I had stayed with his father, he’d have abused my son both verbally and physically
In that case, I concede the point. There are certainly situations in which a parent is too dysfunctional to be of any advantage to their child. I know women and men in that category.
I’d urge ALL women to consider whether they can (financially) sustain their children alone before even thinking about a family.
In our current unstable system, yes. It’s important for women to be educated generally, anyway, as that makes them better mates and parents. But do I think she needs to get a graduate degree? Probably not. An associates or a bachelors will do just fine, or related job experience. After that, she’d still be in her early 20s and highly fertile.
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No, no…I didn’t mean a woman should have to be “rich” before having children. I meant that she should make sure she can at least raise her kids without Welfare and without Child Support. So, basically if a girl marries at 18 and pops out a bunch of babies and her hubbie decides to dump her 10 years later, she’ll probably REALLY regret having no work experience….no job history….and prob NO further education at all.
And that happens a lot to perfectly “nice” girls who just wanted to have a family and didn’t think it out (and the nasty realities of it)…..then find themselves as Welfare moms living around people and situations that they don’t know how to handle (like we already do).
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Daphne asked:
“My questions is: Where are all of the men who actually want a traditional wife and relationship for raising a well balanced, happy family? Where are all of the men who want to be the head of the household and allow their women to be wives and mothers first rather than breadwinners?
I’m serious, this isn’t a snarky question. I should probably add that the age range I’m talking about is men between 35 & 50.”
We’re waiting for women like Daphne to stop asking the obvious and start joining us in lobbying for fair family laws that don’t treat men like shakedown targets for a woman who gets ‘bored’ in the marriage. Not all men are abusive and want to mistreat women. And we don’t want to be abused ourselves should we marry a woman who morphs into an succubus once the wedding is over and the family is started.
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Men being head of the household is against the law in the United States. Seriously.
Many stay at home wives will be seriously resentful about not having enough money to indulge themselves as they’d like, and if they opt for divorce their husbands will be raped in court, with no chance for custody and sky-high CS/alimony payments. Stay at home mothers are perhaps the biggest liability out there. White collar men are generally smart enough to know this, and won’t marry a woman without significant income of her own.
Daphne,
My earlier comment was a bit snippy, I regret that so please don’t take it personal as I enjoyed your comments on this matter. I hope your children are able to find faithful, quality mates of strong character, a tall order these days.
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Daphne
I am a man who is the Head of the House. By any measure you care to name. I got married at 30 and am still married, to the same woman, now at age 54.
We have three children.
If you want to know more I can probably oblige.
My Headship is based on my religion, my personal view of what a marriage should be, and my status and actions.
I have been “running game” on my wife to improve our relationship over the last couple of months, and it has worked very well.
My wife does work, but only part-time. She runs the house. I earn most of the money.
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Ecc 2:11 Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
Ecc 12:13 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.
Ecc 12:14 For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.
That’s all I have to say to Rebel.
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I’ve been married, to a woman who turned out to be a sociopath and a drug addict as well. The statement that some posters here have made about the majority of women not being worthy of marriage is sadly, true, If I knew when I was a young man what I know today, I would have never got married in the first place, and been much happier and better off in all respects. Women in my opinion are their own worst enemies, and the vast majority are unaware of how they make their own live miserable, let alone able to accept responsibility for instead of blaming all men. I’m done with women, and for men like me a dog or a cat is a much more loyal and caring companion than the basket cases my ex-wife and others before her I’ve met. There’s no such thing as the right woman for most men, except no woman. I’m getting older and therefore much better able to avoid the thinking with the dipstick trap that snares younger men who end up with harpies and their kids who may or may not even be his.
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I have been so lucky after two failed marriages to find the right women. Ten ++ years in and she still looks with me with adoring eyes. I try very hard to not put onto her my anger at my past relationships.
We were married later in life, more from the standpoint of both having teen children then age, but more mature then most. Getting over issues from past relationships now seems trivial, but here’s a holiday example:
My wife is thin, my ex wife was sometimes slim: she was a bulimic/alcoholic .
Our first Christmas together my wife opened up a box of Turtles given together jointly by (now) our daughters. She ate the whole box and I wanted to dump her out the door at that moment. Five years with a puking alcoholic was enough for me and I wasn’t going to do it again.
My wife doesn’t have a sweet tooth. The kids had been giving her Turtles as a holiday tradition since they were babies, once a year my wife stuffs herself with Turtles because the kids think she loves them so much.
I felt like an ass for getting upset about the whole thing. My women understood, gave me the chance to vent and explained. In the end I should and did feel like an idiot for overreacting, she thought I had reason to be concerned.
Small story but I do believe that when people learn from their mistakes, except responsibility for what they’ve done wrong , and stop playing their lives over and over again. Except responsibility, personally for the bad things that have happened to them there is hope for a happy future.
I ignored my ex’s addictions for years, I learned not to ignore huge warning signs by living with that. I’ve also learned from my wife that you shouldn’t taint life today because of what happened in a past life.
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