More ‘Red Pill’ Thoughts

Went to bed early Thursday night — it was a long day — and woke up early to start putting together my thoughts on the Democrat debate I missed, but then started engaging the comments on “Missing College Girl Mackenzie Lueck Was a Social-Media ‘Sugar Baby’ Whore.” This inspired some thoughts that I want to record while they’re fresh in my mind, and I’ll get to the debate commentary later. As I said in that post:

If you criticize the “sugar baby” racket, feminists will condemn you for “slut-shaming.” They openly advocate the most irresponsible promiscuity, and consider any criticism to be “sexist.” . . .
Feminist “empowerment” means that there are no moral standards for women, so that the college girl will never encounter anyone in authority on campus who would dare to tell her that whoring around via social media is a bad idea.

This is a point that reflects Rollo Tomassi’s insight about the implications of living in a “feminine primary social order.” Western civilization’s tradition of chivalry toward women — the civilized man was taught to show an appropriate deference toward “the weaker sex” — has been leveraged as a force to advance the anti-traditional agenda of feminism. Yet because human nature cannot be changed by political force, women are still vulnerable in ways that traditional civilization understood, but which feminists wish to ignore or deny. Feminist attacks on sexual “double standards” — their insistence that criticism of female promiscuity is “sexist,” and therefore illegitimate — ignore the real harms experienced by women who attempt to pursue “liberation” in this manner.

Men and women are different, and these differences are socially significant. Forcing people to pretend otherwise is foolish, but that’s what our laws and policies against “discrimination” are about — compelling us to remain silent about real differences between men and women, while implementing an agenda that ignores these differences. Speaking out against the feminist agenda carries real risks (ask James Damore) and this has the effect of silencing common-sense objections to bad ideas promoted in the name of feminism. What this means, at a practical level, is that women’s behavior is off-limits to male criticism. In a “feminine primary social order,” male opinions are essentially irrelevant.

 

Now consider the case of Mackenzie Lueck in this light. Anyone with common sense could have told her that whoring herself out as a “sugar baby” was a bad idea, but she was in a bubble, using her private online accounts to conceal this behavior from anyone who might criticize it. Apparently, her friends knew what she was doing, but using social media and dating apps to hustle cash is considered acceptable by many college girls, so she was shielded from any sort of common-sense warnings about the risks involved in this form of “empowered” sexuality.

“Don’t be a whore” is always good advice, but Third Wave feminist ideology effectively prohibits any criticism of female sexual behavior. Because well-mannered men wish to avoid offending women, a sense of chivalry may lead men to cooperate with this prohibition, and some men will play “white knight” by rushing to defend Mackenzie Lueck (and other girls in the “sugar baby” racket) from any condemnation.

GUYS: YOU’RE NOT REALLY HELPING WOMEN
BY BEING A ‘MALE FEMINIST.’

The world feminists have helped create is not a better world for women than the world they’ve destroyed in the name of “equality.” Your grandmother’s world may have been less equal than the world we live in, but she had the benefit of certain traditional institutions and customs that younger women today are sorely lacking. Deprived of the security that women obtained from the institutions of a traditional social order, young women are now vulnerable to the toxic influence of a culture that promotes sexual exploitation as “empowerment.” But nobody can talk bluntly about this, because feminism won’t allow it.

If there is any hope at all of restoring sanity to our society, men must summon the courage to speak the truth, no matter how “offensive” such truth-telling might be to feminist-influenced women. Indeed, telling the “offensive” truth might help save a woman’s life.

The latest development in the Mackenzie Lueck case:

A former Army IT specialist who owns a home five miles from a park where University of Utah student Mackenzie Lueck went missing, has been named as a person of interest, DailyMail.com can reveal.
Salt Lake City Police have been searching the home of a man they identified as a person of interest in Lueck’s case, revealing they had collected evidence from the home at a press conference on Thursday.
While police declined to name the homeowner, DailyMail.com learned it is owned by Ayoola ‘AJ’ Ajayi, 31, who lists a private room inside the home on Airbnb for up to $40 a night.
Officials announced they are now searching for a mattress and box spring that Ajayi had given away for free on resale website LetGo five days ago.
Salt Lake City Police requested for the person who picked up the items to contact them, as they continue searching for Lueck.
Lueck, a 23-year-old sorority member, disappeared after taking a Lyft car on June 17 from the airport to a park located miles away from her apartment.
Ajayi was employed by the Army as an Information Technology Specialist for nearly two years before leaving in June 2016, according to his LinkedIn.
He currently works at Dell as a Senior Technical Support Analyst and has so for the past 10 months.

No one should jump to conclusions here. Being a “person of interest” is not the same as being a suspect, and even then, this man would be considered innocent until proven guilty. Yet if this story continues developing in this direction, expect feminists to ignore it completely.

Because “intersectionality,” or something.


 

The Red Pill and ‘Opposite George’

You may recall one of the funniest episodes of Seinfeld:

George remarks to Jerry in Monk’s Café that every decision that he has ever made has been wrong, and that his life is the exact opposite of what it should be. Jerry convinces him that “if every instinct you have is wrong, then the opposite would have to be right.” George experiments with doing the complete opposite of what he would do normally.

This is one of the things to keep in mind when discussing “Red Pill” philosophy. According to Rollo Tomassi and other students of intersexual dynamics, many of the “Blue Pill” beliefs men are taught about female behavior are so wrong that men might as well do like George Costanza and do the opposite of what we are taught.

Think about the assumptions guys are prone to make about women, based on superficial characteristics. Men are easily impressed by beauty, but I like to quote an old Johnny Rivers lyric:

Beware of pretty faces that you find.
A pretty face can hide an evil mind.

If a pretty girl wishes to deceive a guy, he’s unlikely to wise up to her deception until it’s too late. Therefore, it would behoove the young bachelor to be suspicious of any unusually attractive woman he meets. Here’s the thing: One would expect, in the normal course of human events, that the most attractive women would be off the market, so to speak, at a relatively young age, yet here she is flirting with you.

If she’s good-looking and still single, why is she single?

There must be a backstory to explain why such an attractive woman hasn’t gotten herself a man already. Something must have gone wrong.

Here’s where the “Opposite George” mentality could prove advantageous. The unusually attractive woman expects guys to make a move on her, but if you can focus your mind on a realistic assessment — she must have done something wrong, or else she wouldn’t still be single — you will adopt an attitude of cautious skepticism toward her. And another “Opposite George” insight: Be honest about the reasons for your caution.

Think about it. She’s already heard every clever pickup line in the book, so instead you just speak to her honestly. You’ve got nothing to hide — obviously, she knows you find her attractive — and you’ve probably got nothing to lose, because the chances are she’s got emotional problems that explain why all her previous relationships failed. Hooking up with her would only entangle you in her psychodrama, so if being honest means you don’t score with her, you haven’t really lost anything. In fact, ignoring her would probably be the smartest move you could make, but if you’re going to take a chance, make sure you get her backstory first.

Avoid being predictable. Think about how to be different — how to set yourself apart from other guys. Don’t be an average chump, easily deceived by any pretty girl he meets. Remember: If something seems too good to be true, it’s probably not true, nor is it actually good.

Try the Red Pill. You could be more like “Opposite George.”



 

‘Strong Delusion’

 

Richard Cooper called attention to this woman’s online dating profile: A 22-year-old unmarried mother who demands that any guy who contacts her must be 6-foot-3 with “stable housing and income … open to the idea of marriage … intelligent,” etc. Beggars can’t be choosers, ma’am.

The average height of U.S. males is 5-foot-9. At 5-foot-11, a man is in the top 25%, at 6 feet, he’s in the top 10%. The man who is 6-foot-3 is taller than 99% of men in the United States.

Thus, the woman begins by eliminating 99% of all males from her search, and then adds numerous other qualifiers, as if such men are so numerous that they’ll be lining up for the opportunity to date this not-very-attractive woman who, by the way, has another man’s child in tow.

What is this woman thinking? Her unrealistic expectations remind me of the Apostle Paul’s warning about “strong delusion” that will seize the minds of those who “had pleasure in unrighteousness.” I’m also reminded of Elliot Rodger, the murderous dweeb who grandiosely declared himself the “Supreme Gentleman” before his murder-suicide spree.

 

Recall that the “incel” killer, who had no close friends and was such an introvert he couldn’t summon the courage to talk to girls, was convinced that he was entitled to the companionship of blonde beauties. This kind of grandiose delusion is symptomatic of a damaged ego engaged in a defense mechanism, overcompensating for negative feedback. There’s a sort of sour-grapes rationalization involved: “These ordinary people who reject me are inferior, unworthy of my attention.” The reason he can’t get laid, the loser tells himself, is that women are too shallow and stupid to appreciate his superior qualities. And this is relevant to the single mother who evidently expects a 6-foot-3 knight in shining armor to rescue her by swiping right on her dating-app profile.

We might guess that this woman’s “strong delusion” — her irrational overestimation of her chances in the mating market — is just additional evidence of the poor judgment that resulted in her being a 22-year-old unmarried mother. She is too stupid to realize how stupid she is. Such people will stumble from one easily avoided disaster to the next, ignoring the wise advice of those around them. They are “trouble magnets,” attracting to themselves bad influences, and are easily deceived.

As easy as it is to laugh such idiots, many women with elite education are prone to similar folly. We call these women “feminists.”

 

Remember Ella Dawson, the graduate of elite Wesleyan University who made her name a synonym for herpes? Well, she recently unleashed a Twitter thread that included some interesting remarks:

 

She concludes: “I was petrified of being dismissed as desperate, when what I actually was… was demanding. I was demanding what I deserved.”

Let’s scrutinize the word “deserved” here. How does one deserve respect? What did Ms. Dawson do that would inspire others to respect her? Has she comported herself in a respectable manner? And if respect is something deserved, is it Ms. Dawson’s habit to treat others with respect? Or is she generally disrespectful to others?

 

If you do not behave respectably, you should not be surprised when people do not treat you with respect. Given that Ms. Dawson has not only boasted about her irresponsible sexual behavior, but has encouraged others to emulate her behavior, while hurling abusive language at anyone she disagrees with, it is difficult to say how or why she believes she has deserved respect. Ms. Dawson just turned 27, which means she can no longer use her just-out-of-college naïveté as an excuse.

Furthermore, as anyone who has read The Rational Male must realize, Ms. Dawson has entered her Epiphany Phase, in which a woman who has ridden the carousel realizes her SMV is not a durable commodity, and that she is at risk of becoming surplus goods in the mating market.

What is her solution? How can a woman who made her name synonymous with an incurable sexual virus convince a Beta provider that she is the kind of Quality Woman he should marry? Her Twitter lecture about being “desperate” seems to be an attempt to sell herself as having gained wisdom from her past experience — she now knows what she was looking for when she began screwing around so recklessly as a teenager.

Will she be able to sell that rationalization? Depends on who’s buying. There are plenty of Blue-Pill Beta males out there, and Ms. Dawson lives in New York City, where Hillary Clinton got nearly 90% of the vote in 2016, so most of the men she encounters are unlikely to question whatever rationalization she offers. On the other hand, what man wants a wife with such a notorious reputation? Well, sure, there’s Andrew Golis, but such Harvard-educated fools are rare. And thank God for that.



 

Conflicting Signals

David Solway on the feminist education agenda for boys:

Recently, my wife Janice posted a video in her Fiamengo File series about an Ottawa school, Brookfield High, that had launched a ManUp campaign, complete with posters targeting males as prone to evil and females as innocent victims. “Judging from the displays,” she states, “Brookfield High goes out of its way to make girls feel welcome through positive messaging; boys, in contrast, are set apart to be lectured and shamed about male evil.”

This demonization of masculinity conflicts with the reality that any boy can see with his own two eyes: The cutest girls in school are attracted to the most masculine boys, and masculine not just in terms of physical traits, but also in terms of personality traits — confidence, assertiveness, “swagger.” Here we see a problem with what Rational Male author Rollo Tomassi calls the feminine-primary social order. Every observant man knows that there is a yawning chasm between (a) what women say they value most in a man and (b) the kind of man women actually go for. Listen to what women say, and you’d think they are magnetically attracted to “sensitive” guys. Watch what women actually do, and you can see that women obviously don’t actually care about “sensitivity.” Women want men who are tall and muscular and, ceteris parabus, rich, although no amount of money is going to make a short chubby guy sexy. As for the claim that women go for “sensitive” guys, anyone with two eyes and a brain knows this is nonsense. You don’t see throngs of lovestruck college girls chasing after guys who major in sociology or English literature (unless, of course, these guys are also tall, muscular and rich). No, it’s the jocks and frat boys who get the best action on campus, and if you pay attention to the choices women make, you’ll begin to suspect that their professed preference for “sensitive” men is the exact opposite of truth. That girl who was lecturing you about your need to be more “sensitive” will, with surprising regularity, end up falling head-over-heels for some selfish creep or dimwit brute who can’t even spell the word “sensitivity.”

In the same way that individual women often say one thing and do the opposite, so also will the educational system in a feminine-primary social order give confusing and misleading messages to boys and young men about how they should behave. Boys are bombarded with anti-male messages that label masculine behavior “toxic,” but they can see with their own eyes that women prefer masculine men, even the “toxic” ones! The gangster hoodlum is seldom without female companionship and, if he’s not killed by his gang’s rivals, the 25-year-old hoodlum will probably have sired three or four offspring with various girlfriends during the intervals between his jail sentences. This is relevant to the situation at Brookfield High School that caught Janice Fiamengo’s attention because, as her husband points out, there were comments on her video from students and former students at the school: “Brookfield was a horrible school . . . The school was filled with gang members.” In other words, the boys who caused trouble at Brookfield were not the kind of boys who were likely to be reformed by posters in the hallways.

You know what a useful masculine trait is? Stoicism, particularly as manifested in the ability to maintain a tactful silence. The wise young man, when confronted by obviously false messages from school administrators, will say nothing. He will follow the rules, and avoid drawing attention to himself by openly mocking the school’s official propaganda, but he will resist the pressure to parrot these false messages. He will not become one of the castrato choirboys singing this feminist tune, but instead will silently carry on about his business, as if he doesn’t even notice the tune they’re singing.

“What’s up with Josh?” his friends may ask when they notice him sitting quietly, reading a book by Sun Tzu or Machiavelli. He is intelligent and observant, and not generally shy about expressing himself, but he knows when to keep his mouth shut, and he also knows this: When your enemy seeks to provoke you, you should refuse to be provoked. Never permit the enemy to draw you into battle on a field of his own choosing, at the time that best suits him. Your enemy would not seek to provoke you into an attack here and now, if he did not think conditions were favorable to him.

Applying the maxims of military strategy to a situation like this anti-male propaganda campaign at Brookfield High, let’s make one thing clear: Feminists knew that boys would feel insulted by these hallway posters — that was the intended purpose, to insult boys. If you study feminist rhetoric, as I have, you realize that whenever you see a woman publicly declaiming against misogyny, toxic masculinity, rape culture, etc., she knows full well that men find this rhetoric insulting. Her anti-male rant on social media is intended to provoke hostile reactions from men, to make them lash out and say stupid things she can then screen-cap and show her feminist colleagues as evidence of male inferiority.

Don’t be that guy. Never argue with a feminist. Never let yourself be provoked into a hasty reaction that will discredit you (and do nothing to persuade her she’s wrong). Learn to remain silent in the face of such deliberate provocations, especially in any situation where your response could be used as a weapon against you. Because feminists now exercise hegemonic authority in our educational institutions, you can never hope to “win” an argument with a feminist on campus. Therefore, you should instead strive to avoid feminists on campus and, if you cannot completely ignore them, practice silent observation. If you’re in class and the discussion turns to some topic (e.g., abortion) where feminists feel obliged to comment, do not participate in the discussion, but watch and listen, making a mental checklist of your female classmates who are most vocal in expressing feminist ideology. These are women to be avoided. Never speak to feminists. Never associate with them. Ostracize them and advise your trusted friends to avoid them as well.

Feminism is a sort of incurable mental virus, causing women to develop a destructive rage toward males. Any woman exhibiting symptoms of this disorder should be socially quarantined. The young man who thinks it safe to interact with feminists, who believes they can be persuaded by rational argument, will become a target of destruction.