Quote: (01-03-2015 05:50 PM)VolandoVengoVolandoVoy Wrote:
Your post as a whole was well thought out and well written regarding feminism, but I respectfully disagree with some of your conclusions, even though you are much more senior here than I am.
A man doesn't need protection, he needs to defend himself against all enemies and rivals, whether they are male or female or ideologies. It is up to a man to do what he wants, to make his life what he wants, not for society to do it for him.
How is anyone encouraging this guy to do anything?
He is, in essence, a complete fool. Plenty of men (most RVF members), given his same level of looks and wealth and fame...would do a lot lot lot better, and would never wife up a woman who treated them like a chump.
He is fantastically successful in one part of his life, and has gotten lazy in others.
I am guessing that he combined natural talent with thousands of hours of practice and study of real estate to become the salesman he is today. He no doubt realized that he needed a specific skillset to excel.
Now, he seems to think that one minded intensity and persistence that leads to real estate success and landing the Manhattan penthouse client is the same method he should use to get a woman. Or maybe he wired himself to approach all goals/problems that way.
The fact of the matter is, in my opinion, if this man spent even 1% of the time and effort he has put into real estate/sales into learning game fundamentals and considering important aspects of psychology and relationships, he would not do things the way he did.
It's like a doctor thinking because he is intelligent and processes information well that he can just go out and pick stocks or something, without putting in the work to learn how to succeed in that particular field, which is different from his own.
I was referring to something very different from what you are referring to. I don't think you grasped what I was trying to say.
Of course, a man should strive for being all he can be. No one doubts that. But that was not my point.
This is my point. There are fundamental biological differences between man and woman. And I submit that a woman's control over the reproductive process gives her an advantage coming out of the starting gate. She already starts with an advantage.
And so when she clamors for "equality" in every detail (assuming she is sincere, which she usually is not), she quickly turns that "equality" into superiority. Her lie is that she expects the man to abide by an outmoded playbook. But yet, at the same time, she refuses to acknowledge her responsibilities under that traditional playbook.
And this is the reality that traditional cultures the world over have known for millennia. This is why traditional cultures, drawing on thousands of years of experience, have found it necessary to keep women and their antics firmly under control by using laws, religions, and social rules to prevent them from achieving superiority over men.
And we dismantled all of that. And the result is right before our eyes.
In modern America, women have all the advantages: the laws favor them, and there are no traditional cultural rules (religion, clan, tribe, etc.) to keep them in check. Their antics, drama, and craziness is raging out of control and there are no ways to keep them in check. Even trying to control them can land you in jail or get you fired.
My point is this: equality is a chimera. There can be no "equality" between men and women. There can only be reciprocal responsibilities. There can only be gender roles.
So when a women starts blathering about "equality" and "fairness" realize that this is a bunji pit, a trap for the unwary. She will quickly twist this "equality" into complete superiority.
This is what I meant when I said that men needed "protection": I meant that the law, and other social rules, need to recognize the inherent gender differences. The law needs to prevent women from raging out of control and destroying social order. Which they will do--and have done--if they are not kept firmly under control.
It is our fault, as we permitted this to happen.