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In The Mailbox: 10.23.19

Posted on | October 24, 2019 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Don’t Bring A Club To A Gunfight
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box, Episode #782
EBL: America’s Pile Of Uneaten Bacon – Problem, Strategic Reserve, Or Beautiful Challenge?
Twitchy: Seven Year Old Boy To Be Transitioned Explains To His Father What Mom Does
Louder With Crowder: Children Can’t Consent To Sex But It’s OK To Sex Change Them?

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Time To Act In Defiance Of This Miserable Pope
American Greatness: Frustrated Republicans Storm Secretive Impeachment “Inquiry” Hearing, also, Where’s Lindsey?
American Power: Small Share Of American Adults Dominate Political Twitter
American Thinker: Anti-Trump Camp Includes Hatred Of Israel
Animal Magnetism: Hunting Season Totty III
Babalu Blog: How Cubans Bypass State Control & Censorship To Access The Web In Socialist Cuba
BattleSwarm: Gutfeld – The Better Trump Does, The More Insane The Left Acts
Camp of the Saints: Is The Antipope An Antichrist?
Cafe Hayek: Markets Save Lives
CDR Salamander: Is The Air Force Leading The Way – Again?
Da Tech Guy: How Many Polar Bears Is The Right Number? also, The Bitterness Of Losers
Don Surber: Genocide Cancelled, Media Sad
First Street Journal: In Case You Wondered Just How Dumb The Left Can Be
The Geller Report: Major Clinton/Obama Fundraiser & Donor Pleads Guilty To Serving As Foreign Agent, also, Here’s What Happened In The Canadian Election
Hogewash: NGC 2997, also, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
Hollywood In Toto: MAGA-Friendly Terrence Williams Is Broadway Bound
Joe For America: Florida Permanently Removes Scott Israel As Broward County Sheriff
JustOneMinute: Battle Lines
Legal Insurrection: Gibson’s Bakery Files Cross-Appeal To Restore Full $44 Million Verdict Against Oberlin College, also, Canadian Transgender Pest “Jessica” Yaniv Loses Ball-Waxing Case Against Beauticians
Michelle Malkin: Laura Loomer – Disrupter For Congress
The PanAm Post: It Isn’t “Social Discontent” In Chile, But A Coup By The International Left
Power Line: Things Only Democrats Can Say, also, She Would Have Stood A Better Chance Against Polar Bears
Shark Tank: Wassermann Schultz Facing Another Primary Challenger
Shot In The Dark: Contract Law
The Political Hat: Florida Democrats – Swamps Are People Too
This Ain’t Hell: FOP Member Responds To Beta’s Gun Proposal, also, Mix of Politics & Retired Military
Victory Girls: Halloween, Cancel Culture’s Annual Hissy Fit
Volokh Conspiracy: Why Don’t You Write More About Right-Wing Anti-Semitism?
Weasel Zippers: Republicans Storm Closed Impeachment Hearing, also, Dem Rep Asks Secretary Carson To Apologize For Remarks He Didn’t Make
Mark Steyn: Putting It To The People, Over And Over And Over, also, The Death Of A Soldier


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Naked Bisexual Democrat Update

Posted on | October 23, 2019 | Comments Off on Naked Bisexual Democrat Update

 

Monday we brought you the story of Rep. Katie Hill (D-Calif.) whose nude photograph, depicting her brushing the hair of a 22-year-old female campaign staffer, is apparently evidence in her husband’s divorce case against her. Hill’s husband also alleges that she engaged in an affair with a male congressional staffer, Graham Kelly. So it would appear that Rep. Hill is further confirmation of my advice: Never trust a bisexual.

At any rate, Ace calls attention to the latest update:

Democratic California Rep. Katie Hill on Tuesday denied having an extramarital affair with a male congressional staffer, but did not deny having such an affair with a female campaign staffer.
Hill blamed her ongoing “divorce from an abusive husband” for allegations that she had affairs with the two staffers in a statement released to Politico….
Hill called allegations that she was having an affair with legislative director Graham Kelly “absolutely false,” but didn’t deny having an affair with the female campaign staffer. The first-term congresswoman blamed a “coordinated effort to try to destroy me and people close to me” for the affair allegations.
“Intimate photos of me and another individual were published by Republican operatives on the internet without my consent,” she said, adding that she “notified Capitol Hill police who are investigating the situation and potential legal violations of those who posted and distributed the photos, and therefore will have no further comment on the digital materials.”

In other words, Hill is playing the victim. It’s a “coordinated effort” by her “abusive husband” and “Republican operatives.” And while Hill admits she had a three-way with her husband and the female campaign staffer, she denies sleeping with her male congressional staffer. Ace says:

I think she’s denying the heterosexual affair, but not the gay one, not just because there’s dramatic visual proof of the latter, but also because being gay is now just generally a defense against anything, as is being an illegal alien.
She’ll run on “persecution.” And whenever you ask her about it, she’ll respond, “I can’t answer, it’s persecution,” and the media will let her get away with that, the same as they’ve allowed Ilhan “Omar” Nur Said get away with her brother-marrying and Kuffir-banging for years.

Actually, there’s another reason why Hill might deny the affair with her male congressional aide: House Rule XXIII, clause 18(a).

Ted Deutch (D-FL), Chairman and Ranking Member of the Committee on Ethics, released the following statement late on Wednesday:

The Committee is aware of public allegations that Representative Katie Hill may have engaged in a sexual relationship with an individual on her congressional staff, in violation of House Rule XXIII, clause 18(a). The Committee, pursuant to Committee Rule 18(a), has begun an investigation and will gather additional information regarding the allegations.
The Committee notes that the mere fact that it is investigating these allegations, and publicly disclosing its review, does not itself indicate that any violation has occurred, or reflect any judgment on behalf of the Committee. No other public comment will be made on this matter except in accordance with Committee rules. . . .

“If Congresswoman Hill is engaged in a romantic relationship with one of her paid staffers, that is a clear-cut ethics violation,” a senior congressional staffer told Breitbart News this week. “These rules are in place to ensure Congress is a workplace free from abuse and sexual misconduct. The reports paint a troubling pattern that deserve a full investigation.”

It’s an ethics violation for a member of Congress to have sex with a congressional aide, whereas no such rule applies to campaign staffers.

Nevertheless, whatever the House Ethics Committee does, the important takeaway from this story is: Never trust a bisexual.

(Hat-tip: Ed Driscoll at Instapundit.)

UPDATE: How did I miss this? In 2018, when Hill ran for Congress against a conservative Republican, she did so as an avowed bisexual:

As a bisexual woman married to a man, she has faced some pressure to be closeted, along with biphobia. Being out “was a huge decision early on,” she says, as many people urged her to hide her bi identity. But, she says, “I’ve been out as being bi since I was a teenager, right after high school.” She decided that remaining out was part of being “an honest, transparent politician.”
During the primary, she notes, she was accused of pretending to be bi in order to get endorsements from LGBTQ organizations (she has the backing of several, such as Victory Fund and the Human Rights Campaign). In the general election campaign, she’s heard some biphobic comments, with people saying she’s making her sexuality an issue. “I’m not making it an issue,” she says. “It’s just who I am.”

Yes, ma’am. Indeed, we see that now: “It’s just who I am.”

UPDATE II: It appears that this female campaign aide had serious feelings for the bisexual Democrat, saying she “hurt too much” and needed “a little more time to ‘move on'” after their affair ended.

 

But wait — there’s more! Hill and her husband, Kenny Heslep have been together since 2004, when she was 18 and he was 22, and married in 2010. She publicly called him “the love of my life,” claiming during her congressional campaign he was the “backbone” of her life.

Of course, you can’t believe a word she says. She’s a bisexual.

UPDATE III: The reporter who originally broke this story, Jennifer Van Laar of Red State, says she and her family are being threatened.


 

Category: California, Congress, Democrats, Scandal

More Red Pill Discourse

Posted on | October 23, 2019 | Comments Off on More Red Pill Discourse

Returning to a theme that provoked some interesting comments yesterday (“Trouble in ‘Red Pill’ Land”), I notice that Adam Piggott has up a post entitled, “Do ugly men get laid?” And the answer, obviously, is yes they do. What Piggott points out is that many “incel” types blame their looks for their lack of success with women when, in fact, this is just a rationalization for their shortage of audacity. Success with women requires a certain insouciant boldness which the “incel” lacks. Such men are often described as being “on the spectrum” of austism, but rather than play armchair neurologist, I would observe that the loser tends to be an introvert by nature. Rather than seeing this as a personal problem to be overcome by self-improvement — learning how to introduce himself and make small talk — the introverted “incel” often resorts to a sort of sour-grapes rationalization about his unpopularity with women. The problem is not that he is a loser, but rather that women are cold-hearted, selfish sluts. This is the mentality that results in Elliott Rodger declaring himself “The Supreme Gentleman” before going on his revenge rampage.

 

Self-pity and envy are the worst of human emotions, as they reflect an abnegation of personal responsibility. It’s like Hillary Clinton claiming that “Russian collusion” cheated her out of the presidency, rather than admitting that she had every advantage in the 2016 election and lost because of her own clumsy blundering. Or it’s like those purple-haired SJW feminists who insist they are victims of patriarchal oppression, when the truth is they are just lazy, rude and stupid. Finding a scapegoat to blame for your problems may be emotionally satisfying, but it won’t solve your problem if the real problem is you.

What’s wrong with these guys?

A rising percentage of young American men report they are unable to find sexual partners, according to data from the General Social Survey (GSS) at the University of Chicago. The percentage of U.S. men 22-29 “reporting no sex in the past year” has increased more than 50% since 2009, from less than 10% to more than 15% of respondents in 2018, according to GSS data compiled by University of Virginia Professor W. Bradford Wilcox. The declining sexual activity of Millennial generation males has reversed normal behavioral patterns. Until 2010, young females in the GSS were more likely than males to report no sexual contact in the past year; now, the “no sex” number is significantly higher for under-30 men than women in the same age cohort.

The plural of “anecdote” is data, as they say, and there is evidence that we are in the midst of an epidemic of cluelessness. My hunch is that a lot of these guys, like Elliot Rodger, have unrealistic expectations about the quality of female companionship they deserve. “Beggars can’t be choosers,” as the old saying goes. If the number of notches on your belt is zero, what does this say about your rank in the hierarchy? “Generation Incel” seems to imagine they should be scoring with blonde sorority girls, when they can’t even work up the nerve to ask the chubby checkout girl at the grocery store for a date. Fear of failure seems to paralyze these losers, and they become passive spectators in the sexual marketplace.

“There’s a fixation with their physical appearance and shame they have so little experience with women,” Boston University professor Emily Rothman said of her perusal of online “incel” forums. “There isn’t a middle ground of ‘what can I do to acquire the skills that I need to connect with women?’ There seems to be a fundamental lack of understanding of how dating and attraction work and that it isn’t solely about appearance.” If you consider yourself doomed, this will tend to become a self-fulfilling prophecy, and this is why Professor Rothman notes the lack of a “middle ground” on the incel forums.

These guys have made failure the basis of their identity.

Meanwhile, other guys are ruining their lives by dating Miley Cyrus:

Miley Cyrus appears to have taken a subtle swipe at her ex-husband Liam Hemsworth — and, actually, most other men — while praising her new boyfriend Cody Simpson as ‘good people’.
The Wrecking Ball singer hopped on her Instagram live on Sunday evening to share some dating advice for her 100 million Instagram followers while drawing on her own experience.
With Cody, 22, sharing her live screen, Miley explained how she thought she ‘had to be gay’ due to the assumption that all men were ‘evil’.
Explaining why it took her so long to start dating Cody despite knowing each other for years, Miley said: ‘I was being a little too hardcore for him and his vibes and not allowing anyone in but now I am.’
Appearing to take a swipe at her estranged husband Liam Hemsworth, the popstar continued: ‘There are good people out there that just happen to have d**ks. I’ve only ever met one, and he’s on this live.’
Addressing her sexuality, Miley continued: ‘There are good men out there guys, don’t give up.
‘You don’t have to be gay, there are good people with d**ks out there, you’ve just got to find them.’

As I explained when Miley dumped Liam: Never trust a bisexual.

Having humiliated her ex-husband by publicly cheating on him with Kaitlynn Carter, now Miley’s claiming that she has suddenly found the one man in the world who’s good enough for her — and how long do you think this will last? Six weeks? Six months, maybe? Sooner or later, Miley will discard Cody Simpson, and what does that say about him?

Anyone with two eyes and a brain can see she’s bad news, and yet some guys are still foolish enough to fall into her vast chasm of craziness. These fools deserve whatever humiliation she inflicts on them.


 

Category: The Red Pill

In The Mailbox: 10.22.19 (Late Night Edition)

Posted on | October 23, 2019 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 10.22.19 (Late Night Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
Bacon Time: Free Range Texas Bacon
EBL: PM Zoolander Wins, also, Inca Idols Taken From Vatican, Thrown In The Tiber River
Twitchy: Enjoy These Videos Of Democrats Calling Bill Clinton’s Impeachment A Lynching
Louder With Crowder: Jury Rules Against Father Trying To Protect Seven-Year-Old Son From Forced “Transitioning”

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Do Ugly Men Get Laid?
American Greatness: What America Should Learn From A Mexico In Retreat
American Power: Sebastian Gorka, The War For America’s Soul
American Thinker: Trump Gave Ukraine What Obama Withheld
Animal Magnetism: Hunting Season Totty II
Babalu Blog: Good News For Cuba’s Repressive Dictatorship – Canadian PM Justin Trudeau Re-elected
BattleSwarm: Texas Constitutional Amendment Recommendations, also, Texas Speaker Bonnen Retires
Camp of the Saints: On Optimates, Populares, And Victor Davis Hanson
Cafe Hayek: Prosperity, Technology, & Economic Freedom
CDR Salamander: A Welcome Cleaning At The JAG Shack
Da Tech Guy: More On The Hollowing Out Of California, also, I Guess The Answer Is “Yes”
Don Surber: CNN Latest News Cesspool Uncovered
First Street Journal: Allowing Pseudo-Scientific Mumbo-Jumbo To Override Plain Common Sense
The Geller Report: Muslim Car Ramming In NC – One Dead, also, CNN – Mexico Has Built Trump’s Wall And Now They’re Paying For It
Hogewash: Why The UK Deep State Opposes Brexit, also, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
Hollywood In Toto: How Hollywood Bias Permanently Changed One Film Site
Joe For America: Trump Compares Impeachment Inquiry to A Democrat-Led “Lynching” And The Media Explodes
JustOneMinute: Today’s Bad News
Legal Insurrection: Michelle Obama Floated As Savior Of Democrats, also, Orban Tells Erdogan Hungary Will Use Force If Turkey Unleashes Tidal Wave Of Illegals
Power Line: We’re In E.J.Dionne’s Head, He Wants Into Ours, also, Justin Trudeau, Illegitimate PM?
Shark Tank: FL Senate Rules Committee Votes Against Ex-Sheriff Israel
Shot In The Dark: Strib, Dishonest
STUMP: Taxing Tuesday – What’s The Real Tax Rate?
The Political Hat: The Fight Against The Duo-Normative Diarchy Comes To Congress
This Ain’t Hell: Try To Imagine If You Will…, also, U.S. Troops Leave Syria
Victory Girls: Child Abuse – Court Gives Custody To Mother Who Insists Eight-Year-Old Son Is Female 
Volokh Conspiracy: Unconstitutional “Racial Ridicule” Prosecution In Connecticut
Weasel Zippers: Project Veritas Drops Another Video – Sexual Misconduct By CNN Exec And Possible Coverup, also, NYT Admits There’s A Deep State, But It’s Okay Because They Mean Well
Megan McArdle: Why The Senate Might Actually Remove Trump From Office
Mark Steyn: I’ll Never Fall In Love Again, also, Scheer Genius

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In The Mailbox: 10.22.19 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | October 22, 2019 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: What If You Dialed 911 & Couldn’t Get Through?
Locomotive Breath: Angry Man Scatters Street Blockers
EBL: HBO’s Watchmen Reviewed
Twitchy:  Federal Judge Refuses To Dismiss Chicago’s Lawsuit Against Jussie Smollett
Louder With Crowder: Okay, Lady Athetes, Here’s how To Deal With Transwomen In Your Sport

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: You Need To Vet Your Women, also, Podcast #123 – The Validation Episode
American Greatness: When Does It Count As A Coup?
American Power: Detroit Couple Hoped To Make It Big In Hollywood – Now They’re Homeless
American Thinker: 2020 – The Left Goes To War
Animal Magnetism: Hunting Season Totty I
Babalu Blog: Ana Navarro Is Dead Wrong – Maduro Is A Socialist
BattleSwarm: What It’s Like Inside Red China’s Gulags, also, Democratic Presidential Clown Car Update
Camp of the Saints: Joe “Hill” Biden And The Touch Of Evil
Cafe Hayek: Capping Gasoline Prices
CDR Salamander: Baltic Security With Dr. Sebastian Bruns On Midrats, also, Merkel Goes Salamander
Da Tech Guy: The End of My Sojourn In CA May Be Near, also, Chicago Teachers Demand Smaller Class Size By Striking, But Enrollment Is Already Declining
Don Surber: Xi May Face A Coup, also, Polar Bears Fired As Climate Change Mascot
First Street Journal: 2016’s Sore Loser Lashes Out Again, Tulsi & Jill Stein Don’t Take It Lying Down
The Geller Report: UK Muslim Gang Targets White Teenagers, Cut Off Teen’s Hand With Axe, also, Hate Crimes Against English & Welsh Jews Doubled In Past Year
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, Consider The Source
Hollywood In Toto: Where Will Hollywood Find The Next Clint Eastwood?
Joe For America: Rand Paul Accosted In CA Restaurant By Unhinged Lefties
JustOneMinute: Waiting On BoJo
Legal Insurrection: Mitt Romney Has A Secret Twitter Account, also, Texas State Student Govt. Says “Coming Out Conservative” Event Is Homophobic
The PanAm Post: Maduro Negotiating With Putin For Handover Of PDVSA To Russia
Power Line: Liberals Smash All Norms Of Civility, also, Behind Closed Doors
Shark Tank:  Rooney Stepping Down, Donalds & Rommel Open To Running
Shot In The Dark: That “Exploding Heads” Sound In Dinkytown Last Friday
The Political Hat: The Perpetual Whittling Away Of Venezuela
This Ain’t Hell: Two More Come Home, also, Phony Army Nurse Maggie DeSanti Still At It
Victory Girls: Hong Kongers Now Preparing For The Worst
Volokh Conspiracy: The Irony Of Antisemites For Bernie, also, Obama, Trudeau, & The Morality of Electoral Interference
Weasel Zippers: In-N-Out Burger Crew Gives Climate Loons The Boot, also, Ilhan Omar Leading Double Life Of Secret Hookups, Romantic Vacations With Married Aide
Mark Steyn: From Pierre To Pierrot, also, Downton Abbey

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Canadian Pervert Jonathan ‘Jessica’ Yaniv Loses #WaxMyBalls Case in Tribunal

Posted on | October 22, 2019 | 1 Comment

 

Jonathan “Jessica” Yaniv is a notorious Canadian pervert who has filed more than a dozen “human rights” complaints seeking to force women who operate body-waxing studies to perform their services on his (male) genitalia. Today, Yaniv lost his/“her” case:

The British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal has ruled against Canadian transgender activist Jessica Yaniv in a case stemming from a complaint Yaniv filed against multiple female beauticians who refused to wax Yaniv’s male genitalia.
“Self-identification does not erase physiological reality,” said Jay Cameron, a lawyer for the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms, which represented the beauticians. “Our clients do not offer the service requested. No woman should be compelled to touch male genitals against her will, irrespective of how the owner of the genitals identifies.”
The Tribunal said in its decision that Yaniv had had filed the “complaints for improper purposes,” and had contradicted herself in “disingenuous” testimony. Yaniv, who is sexually attracted to women, brought 15 complaints against a number of beauticians in the Vancouver area, seeking as much as $15,000 in damages from each one.
“Most of the women who were the target of Yaniv’s complaints work out of their own home, are of immigrant background, and have small children with them in the house during the day,” the Justice Centre’s report said. Yaniv also apparently accused immigrants during the trial of discrimination for refusing service on religious grounds, writing earlier this year on Facebook that “we have a lot of immigrants here who gawk, judge and aren’t the cleanest of people, they’re also verbally and physically abusive, that’s one reason I joined a girl’s gym.”
Yaniv is being ordered to pay $2,000 to three of the accused women, one of whom was forced out of business due to the case.
In August, Yaniv was arrested for owning a taser, after brandishing it on camera during an interview about Yaniv’s alleged history of predatory behavior toward children. Screen-captured messages allegedly from Yaniv highlighted intimate questions to underage girls, and legal documents showed an attempt to organize a topless pool party for such girls.

I mean, far be it from me to advocate vigilante justice, but do you reckon if Yaniv went missing, anyone would even bother looking for his body? Food for bears up in the Yukon somewhere . . .


 

Category: Canada, The Transgender Cult

Pagan Idols Thrown in the Tiber River

Posted on | October 22, 2019 | 1 Comment

Catholics have finally become fed up with this kind of syncretism:

The Amazon Synod has been full of scandal. It started when the opening ceremony in the Vatican garden was full of earth worship and what appeared to be idol worship happening right in front of the pope with his blessing. One doesn’t have to be an art major to recognize ancient fertility goddesses.
The ensuing outrage that occurred among traditional Catholics went unanswered by Rome. In the face of this silence, unidentified Catholics took matters into their own hands and walked into the church next to St. Peter’s where the images were displayed and removed them and threw them into the Tiber.
This is exactly what the prelates who refused to explain themselves to the faithful deserved. The responses given to questions about the idols were completely incoherent. . . .
Pachamama, or Mother Earth is a pagan idol. Period. There is no argument otherwise. It is the same fertility goddess to which ancient cultures sacrificed children. . . .
The Catholic Church has been thrown into a state of total confusion since Pope Francis ascended to the seat of St. Peter. His silence and the silence of Church leaders and crucial issues of the faith have created chaos and division between the left-wing and traditional Catholics. George Neumayer wrote a terrific opinion piece in The Spectator that is a must-read relating to these issues.

Because I’m not Catholic, I don’t pay much attention to such things, but Pope Francis is obviously so left-leaning as to be promoting the crypto-Marxist heresy of “Liberation Theology.” That the Vatican is now also promoting pagan fertility goddesses is scarcely surprising.

(Hat-tip: Instapundit.)


 

Category: Catholics

Trouble in ‘Red Pill’ Land

Posted on | October 22, 2019 | 2 Comments

Rollo Tomassi speaking in 2018.

This past spring, I traveled to Florida for the 21 Convention, a gathering of the “Red Pill” community (a/k/a, “The Manosphere”). What especially drew me to Orlando was a desire to see first-hand the men whose movement represents hope of turning back the tide of Third Wave feminism. There is only so much you can learn about people online, and the opportunity to meet these guys in person was important.

Scarcely had that event ended, however, than a schism of sorts emerged in the manosphere. There was a falling-out between the 21 Convention’s Anthony Johnson and Rational Male author Rollo Tomassi. While I don’t know the details of this quarrel, and am averse to being forced to choose sides in such a dispute where all participants are potential allies in the Culture Wars, I perceive that envy of Tomassi’s influence may be at the root of this schism. At any rate, several of Tomassi’s critics have formed a sort of alliance against him, and one of these critics, Jared Trueheart, sent me a copy of his new book The Red Pill Ideology: The Love Child of Pick-Up Artists and Feminists. Trueheart’s argument is essentially that the Red Pill movement peaked circa 2016 and is now passé, that changes in social and economic circumstances have rendered Tomassi’s insights on “intersexual dynamics” irrelevant. Well, I don’t think so.

Far be it from me to endorse every argument Rollo Tomassi has ever made, but the proof is in the pudding. That is to say, there are men who have read The Rational Male and assert that it literally saved their lives. By explaining female behavior, he helps readers understand their own romantic failures and find hope of future success. Consider one of Rollo’s controversial bits of advice (and one that Trueheart criticizes), that of “spinning plates.” The smart young bachelor, Rollo advises, should develop his options with multiple women, rather than succumbing to the temptation of “one-itis” (investing all his energy and resources in an idealized Dream Girl). This is just good common sense, especially when you consider how men are perceived from a woman’s perspective.

Two time-proven adages — “Absence makes the heart grow fonder” and “Familiarity breeds contempt” — express the problem of the guy who clings too closely to a girlfriend (or potential girlfriend) in such a way that he seems helpless and desperate. What this looks like, from the girl’s perspective, is that this guy has no other options. No other woman wants him, and therefore his value is diminished in her eyes.

What the guy with a “one-itis” problem has done is to forfeit his power.

Despite everything that has changed in the sexual marketplace in recent decades, the fact remains that a young man who is going places in life — the guy with obvious future potential — is viewed as a highly desirable companion by young women. The labels “Alpha male” and “Beta male,” as used in the manosphere, may fail to capture this dynamic. Young women can be quite foolish in their choices, and feminism’s influence tends to rationalize and encourage female folly, but the wise young woman (the one who aspires to be “wife material”) assesses men according to their suitability as future husbands. Well, the high-quality young man is a commodity much in demand, his companionship is valuable, and such a man ought not to act like a desperate loser.

When Rollo tells guys to think in terms of “spinning plates,” he’s encouraging them to avoid a mentality that makes a guy seem like a loser. Your behavior when interacting with a woman you find attractive will tend to convey desperation if you feel you have no other options, that you must “close this sale” or be doomed to loneliness. Whereas, by contrast, if you’ve got in your speed-dial the numbers of a half-dozen girls you sometimes date, and who would be glad to drop in for “Netflix and chill,” your behavior with a new female acquaintance will tend to be more confident and casual — The Attitude:

Damone: All right… where did you see her?
Ratner: She’s in my biology class.
Damone: Did you get her number?
Ratner: No.
Damone: Did you get her name?
Ratner: No. It’s too soon.
Damone: It’s never too soon! Girls decide how far to let you go in the first five minutes.
Ratner: Well, what do you want me to do? Go up to this strange girl in my biology class and say, ‘Hello! I’d like you to take your clothes off and jump on me?’
Damone: I would. Yeah.
Ratner: Really?
Damone: I can see it all now. This is going to be just like the girl you fell in love with at Fotomat this summer. You bought forty bucks of f–kin’ film and you never even talked to her. You don’t even own a camera.
Ratner: You tell me, Mike. What do I do? . . .
Damone: This is what you do — start from the minute you walk into biology. I mean, don’t just walk in. You move across the room. And you don’t talk to her. You use your face. You use your body. You use everything. That’s what I do. I mean I just send out this vibe and I have personally found that women do respond. I mean, something happens.
Ratner: Well, naturally something happens. I mean, you put the vibe out to 30 million chicks, something is gonna happen.
Damone: That’s the idea, Rat. That’s the attitude.
Ratner: The attitude?
Damone: Yeah! The attitude dictates that you don’t care whether she comes, stays, lays, or prays. I mean whatever happens, your toes are still tappin’. Now when you got that, then you have the attitude.

That scene from Fast Times at Ridgemont High ought to be mandatory viewing for young losers who don’t understand why they’re losing.

Having the appropriate mindset is as essential to winning at romance as it is to winning at sports. The problem with many young men nowadays is that they don’t have a positive male influence in their lives — Dads, older brothers, etc. — who can help them figure this stuff out. Too much of what young men think they “know” about women is either picked up from their (equally clueless) peers, or else a regurgitation of some feminist-friendly formula popularized by the media. What Rollo Tomassi is trying to do, it seems to me, is to provide his readers with the kind of knowledge that will be genuinely helpful to them. Oh, and by the way — this seems obvious to me, but perhaps it needs to be pointed out — the one thing a Red Pill guy should never do, when dealing with women, is to act as if he’s following some kind of script or using tactics.

One of the problems with the Red Pill community, which as Trueheart says grew out of pickup-artist (PUA) forums, is that once Neil Strauss’s 2005 book The Game became a bestseller, every would-be PUA in the country was operating according to the same script. And once all the little tricks of the PUA craft were published online, women could learn to spot a player’s game the minute he made his approach. The tactic of “negging,” for example, won’t work if the target knows it’s a tactic.

Back in the day — I speak of the late 1970s and early ’80s — it was just assumed that every guy in the disco was trying to score. There wasn’t much subtlety about that scene, and the only question was who would pair up with whom, and which guys would leave the disco alone. A lot has changed since then, but one of the constant factors is this: Male demand for sex, collectively, always exceeds the available female supply.

What this means is that men are always in competition against other men, and unless a guy is a natural winner — the true Alpha, who is irresistible to women — he will automatically lose out in this competition, unless he can otherwise develop some advantage.

This is basically an eternal problem for young men, but what has made the competition more ruthless in recent decades is the influence of feminism which teaches young women that the sexual competition is not men versus other men, but rather male versus female. According to the zero-sum-game mentality of feminism, male success is always harmful to women — he is her enemy, rather than her potential partner — and the goal of women should be not to find a desirable male companion, but rather to be completely independent of males. Feminism encourages young women to develop a hostile anti-male attitude, and young men are baffled in their attempts to understand and cope with this hostility.

What the Washington Post has called “the Great American Sex Drought” is the best evidence of feminism’s destructive “success.” Men and women are having less sex, and this is exactly the goal feminism seeks: Men are bad, and it is wrong for women to have sex with men.

Jared Trueheart suggests, and I think he may be onto something, that we can expect more men to return to religious morality in the near future. (He cites PUA legend Daryush “Roosh V” Valizadeh’s recent conversion to orthodox Christianity as portending such a trend.) However that may be, I don’t think it invalidates the Red Pill insights that Rollo Tomassi shares with his readers. Insofar as Tomassi is accurately describing patterns of female behavior, it does not matter whether one approves or disapproves of this at a moral level. The facts are still the facts, and while a genuinely Christian woman would not act like a party girl on the club scene, the temptation to sin is never really far away.

Jesus told his disciples: “Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.” In other words, the Christian must necessarily be wise to the ways of the world, even as he seeks to avoid sinful temptation. The kind of secular wisdom conveyed by The Rational Male and its sequels has been applauded by Rollo Tomassi’s readers as life-saving knowledge, and we therefore ought not to disparage his work, simply because he doesn’t preach against fornication. If you want a sermon against sin, go to church. But if you want to understand women’s behavior — as it actually is, rather than what we might ideally hope it would be — I think you can learn a lot from Rollo Tomassi. And so I hope that somehow the schism in the manosphere can be mended, because it ill behooves men to be divided against each other, when feminists seek to unite all women against us.


 

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