Quote: (12-25-2014 03:36 AM)Pride male Wrote:
Wasnt there a time when opening doors, kissing hands, giving gifts and being a gentleman was considered game? I am sure even cavemen provided meat and white knighted when a predator jumped on a bitch. So where did the whole ass hole game come from?
It seems that no one here is saying all or nothing concerning asshole game, and maybe even from time to time, asshole gamers will employ various gift strategies and "gentleman" strategies.
Surely, OP seems to suggest that game is connected with asshole game, but I believe that the various responses in this thread have suggested that OP may have been playing asshole game too heavily or even interpreting game to be completely about being an asshole in various regards, and accordingly, in some of his subsequent responses, it appears that he has decided to employ less asshole game.. and to experiment with such.
In the end, asshole game still seems to have a purpose in male/female interactions and it seems to be a matter of degree and timing in employing asshole game rather than completely abstaining from it. Maybe some guys will get by without employing any asshole game?
As far as game history, someone else is probably better able to discuss the various schools of thought regarding game and the evolution of game in modern times. Surely, we understand that location makes a difference and technology makes a difference and ratios of men to women makes a difference and ratios of skinny women to fat women also seems to make a difference, and these matters are evolving in front of our eyes.
Even though I do NOT claim to be any kind of history/sociological/archeological buff, I am fairly certain that through out history there have been guys playing asshole game while simultaneously other guys were playing gentlemen game and simultaneously other guys were playing beta game and other guys were playing a combination of these with varying approaches. Yes, birth control evolved and modes of social interaction evolved, and guys may have NOT had terms for what they were doing, but they were employing various strategies to win over girls and to bang them (or to marry them in monogamous relations), either by hook or by crook or maybe merely by their social position and family connections.