After 3 months abroad (mostly at my second home in Odessa, Ukraine) I returned to the U.S. this month. I have a lot of shit to take care of so women are the last thing on my mind, but I wanted to share a thought.
The biggest resistance to the perspectives -- which most often are grounded in concrete empirical observation -- shared on the manosphere are due to lack of experience.
Take for example fat and fat shaming. I truly believe that the overwhelming majority of fat people out there in the U.S. (fat girls, fat men) believe they are completely normal and by extension, beautiful, acceptable, admirable. In other word it is not just purely their feminist ideology. The only place they see people of normal weight is on TV, movies, ads and the common wisdom is that those people are anorexic, unnatural. Thus the complete outrage at the fat shaming posts: they do not have the empirical experience to understand their truth. They are literally swimming in fat. They have never experienced something different.
Walk the streets of Odessa, Ukraine -- even in the working class suburbs -- and you see the vast majority of people, especially before middle age have physiques that we only see in the movies in America. There are almost no obese young people, and the younger overweight people could be described as a bit pudgy but not fat.
If you dropped a fat American into this environment for long enough, they might finally get it. Shaming might really work. I was (20 pounds) overweight when I first visited there. I thought I was an OK weight coming in, but in the new context I realized I was fat and to be honest a bit feminine. I remember seeing my reflection in a mirror returning from a night at a nightclub thinking god I look like shit. It took me about a year to realize this and another 4 to really fix things (radical experimentation with eating habits, working out, but mostly just following the lead of the Ukrainian men I met in terms of lifestyle). In the U.S. people tell me "enough already" in Ukraine they tell me I am just starting to look good.
Most of us spend most of our lives in a tight, restricted bubble of experience and habit. "Red Pill" perspectives are in large parts the fruits of experience, of worldliness. I enjoyed a recent Roosh tweet about his experiences with Ukrainian and Polish women: "The prettiest Polish girls look Ukrainian. The uglier Ukrainian girls look Polish. That's all you need to know about that." (This is what Ukrainian women also say by the way). With his stay in Ukraine, Roosh I dare say got a bit more worldly. When he waxed poetic about sweet Polish girls, I had my suspicions he should try Ukraine again.
That is why experience is everything for a man. I suggest gathering as much experience as you can and using it always to your full advantage.... and share it with like minded men. That is the value of a forum like this one. We can emphasize this as manosphere topics become mainstream. Men value empirical truth and practical experience. We are at our best when we share practical knowledge with each other. Our society really silences the voice of experience, male experience especially.
The biggest resistance to the perspectives -- which most often are grounded in concrete empirical observation -- shared on the manosphere are due to lack of experience.
Take for example fat and fat shaming. I truly believe that the overwhelming majority of fat people out there in the U.S. (fat girls, fat men) believe they are completely normal and by extension, beautiful, acceptable, admirable. In other word it is not just purely their feminist ideology. The only place they see people of normal weight is on TV, movies, ads and the common wisdom is that those people are anorexic, unnatural. Thus the complete outrage at the fat shaming posts: they do not have the empirical experience to understand their truth. They are literally swimming in fat. They have never experienced something different.
Walk the streets of Odessa, Ukraine -- even in the working class suburbs -- and you see the vast majority of people, especially before middle age have physiques that we only see in the movies in America. There are almost no obese young people, and the younger overweight people could be described as a bit pudgy but not fat.
If you dropped a fat American into this environment for long enough, they might finally get it. Shaming might really work. I was (20 pounds) overweight when I first visited there. I thought I was an OK weight coming in, but in the new context I realized I was fat and to be honest a bit feminine. I remember seeing my reflection in a mirror returning from a night at a nightclub thinking god I look like shit. It took me about a year to realize this and another 4 to really fix things (radical experimentation with eating habits, working out, but mostly just following the lead of the Ukrainian men I met in terms of lifestyle). In the U.S. people tell me "enough already" in Ukraine they tell me I am just starting to look good.
Most of us spend most of our lives in a tight, restricted bubble of experience and habit. "Red Pill" perspectives are in large parts the fruits of experience, of worldliness. I enjoyed a recent Roosh tweet about his experiences with Ukrainian and Polish women: "The prettiest Polish girls look Ukrainian. The uglier Ukrainian girls look Polish. That's all you need to know about that." (This is what Ukrainian women also say by the way). With his stay in Ukraine, Roosh I dare say got a bit more worldly. When he waxed poetic about sweet Polish girls, I had my suspicions he should try Ukraine again.
That is why experience is everything for a man. I suggest gathering as much experience as you can and using it always to your full advantage.... and share it with like minded men. That is the value of a forum like this one. We can emphasize this as manosphere topics become mainstream. Men value empirical truth and practical experience. We are at our best when we share practical knowledge with each other. Our society really silences the voice of experience, male experience especially.
"Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact."
"Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!"
"It is easier to be a lover than a husband, for the same reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day, than to say bright things from time to time."
Balzac, Physiology of Marriage