I know we can talk about looks, game, status, or whatever. We can talk about how one guy is awkward compared to others as well. I have over the years, seen one trait or characteristic, that sets men who slay apart from men who do awful with women. Now the reason I mention this trait here is because I have noticed that almost every single guy I knew who did horribly with women had this trait. Like I have rarely met an exception to this rule and whenever I saw this trait in a guy, come to find he had girl problems. That trait is....
How they respond to adversity and inconvenient situations
If you guys do not watch Bill Burr, I highly recommend getting into his content. One skit that sticks with me to this very day is the one about him being on a plane with turbulence,
here it is. Now on a longer version of the skit he talks about how some woman is going to have kids with that guy and we will become weaker as a species. The reason I share that video is because this is something I have noticed almost every single time in men that struggle with women and with the game. The guys you see posts from on here crying about being virgins at a certain age, talking about how X city sucks for dating, how impossible the game has become, how hypergamy has ruined everything, and how we need to go back to how things need to be? They likely share this trait.
I remember being in middle school and we had to go on a class trip somewhere. Some kid had to pee real bad and this guy whined on the whole trip about how badly he has to pee and how much it sucks right now because he cannot pee. The trip got so bad that the kid was turning red and almost crying because he could not pee and the teachers had to calm him down. Truth is that a couple other guys also had to pee but they pretended that they did not. Fast forward to almost a decade and what do I notice?
Kid that whines about having to pee grows into an adult whose Facebook posts are super left leaning, talks about how toxic masculinity is ruining everything, and occasionally breaks down on Facebook statuses wishing that he could find a girl. Meanwhile, one of the two kids I kept in touch with who were not vocal about having to pee? He ends up moving to a big city, is living the life, has stories uploaded of him partying hard with hot girls (before COVID happened), and now has a different girl in his stories every few months.
Take the situation of the current abysmal sexual market place.
Yeah, things have gotten tougher for men. Now let me break down how one guy responds versus the other.
Guy 1 accepts that things are different and starts figuring out what is working for men out there doing well. Maybe he hits the gym, maybe he talks to more random women, maybe he moves to a different city, maybe he gets a good Instagram account, or maybe he finds some niche. The way his mind is working, as much as he accepts that things are different, he is working to find answers and solutions to his problems. No doubt that he will struggle during this process. Perhaps he is getting rejected too much, maybe his profile has not matches, and his Instagram barely gets any likes. Yet, Guy 1 keeps going, failing, trying, making adjustments, and after a while he starts to see some success. Is he doing supermodels? No, but he isn't exactly an incel either.
When adversity hits Guy 1 which it will in the form of rejections and other things, he shakes it off and keeps on going. It's like when they say NFL Quarterbacks need to have a short memory, Guy 1 has that. He gets rejected hard at the club and while most men will curl up and die, he keeps going until he figures it out or finds a better avenue. Rarely is he bitter for a prolonged amount of time.
Guy 2 hears the news and while deep down inside he fantasizes about success, he finds a "support group" and you guys know where I am going with this. Guy 2 will join a forum like maybe this one and talk about how he cannot get laid because of his height, race, past trauma, etc (all legitimate excuses by the way). You will find plenty of Guy 2s on your resident incel forums. Now logic will say that if these men are so down on themselves and feel like it is so hopeless, why don't they just quit their pursuit of dating success altogether and quit posting on dating forums and communities? Like why do they even stick around? They can spend those hours in another worthwhile hobby or even a skill to make a ton of cash.
Yet, that is the DNA of Guy 2. Guy 2 doesn't want to accept that he has failed but at the same time, has too delicate of an ego and is so sensitive that he wants to be coddled. In a way, Guy 2 is very much like women and children but society has no place for men who act like a woman or a child. Guy 2 wants the path of least resistance, the hand of big government to take care of him, and he genuinely wants to be treated like a little princess. Even having a woman that has sex with him is not enough, he wants people to feel sorry for him and to stick a pacifier in him. It is why no matter what you tell him, he will always whine.
Once again, you have an adverse situation with the current dating market but look at how winners react differently than the vast majority of losers. The truth is that what Guy 1 has done is infinitely harder than Guy 2. It's easy to curl up, cry, beg for someone to be your pacifier, and hope that Superman comes to save you. Meanwhile, it is tough as nails to get rejected, have your ego crushed, take risks, have society spit on you because you want to sleep with a lot of different women, make adjustments in who you are, and still keep on going.
In adverse situations, women ultimately look for the man who will not cry with them but the one who they can lean on. Women want the guy who, when sh1t hits the fan, can stand his ground and protect him. Guy 1 is going to be that guy. Guy 2 will be the one right there begging to be on the boat with the women and children because there is a lot he has in common with them.