TheHumanist
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Doubt, depressing principles behind certain actions, conflict between upbringing and here, possible choice between using rationales or growing into the role.Rollo Tomassi said:There comes a point of conflict (or revulsion if you want) after a guy has been unplugged from the Matrix long enough where he begins to doubt himself and what he's seeing go on around him. All of the gender dynamics and the complex, but discreet, interplay between the sexes that's been such a mystery for so long starts to become apparent to him. The Neg Hits he never would've dreamed of attempting in his AFC days become so predictably reliable at sparking interest that it becomes depressing. A backhanded compliment shouldn't work; it goes against everything any girl has ever told him will endear him to a woman, but once he musters up the courage to experiment, he finds that they do.
What's depressing isn't that a well delivered neg could actually generates interest, it's the principle behind the neg - the reason why it works - that prompts the conflict. Are women, generally, more like this than not? So he experiments a little more, and tests other theories, and discovers that with some minor variations, yes, for the most part the principles are valid. This then becomes a real tough pill to swallow, especially when you consider ideas like feminine hypergamy. It's very hard to measure oneself up and adjust to a new understanding of how women operate. He can't reconcile what he'd been told and conditioned to believe before (the soul mate myth, pedestalize her, just be yourself, etc.) with this new paradigm. So either he learns to live with this new understanding, benefit from it and grow into a new role for himself, or he rejects it and vilifies it wholesale.
"Women are really not as bad as these misogynists, these bitter, burned men would all have us believe. They're shallow and soulless to think women are all out to get them. They over-analyze everything when they should all just be themselves and let fate or some divine force pair them up with their soul mates. I pity them, really I do."
I've heard all of these regressive rationales from boys as young as 14 to men as old as 75. It's a comfortable ignorance to believe that things are just unknowable and beyond one's control or efforts to really understand. And to make matters worse, there's a long established system of social conventions ready to reinforce and affirm these rationales; ready to reinsert him back into the Matrix and tell him he's unique and special ("not like other guys") and will be rewarded with female intimacy for rejecting it.
That's a nice answer, but it doesn't answer my question and I think the sense of revulsion brought up is looking at a girl, not the sense of doubt. This is not a conflict between a desire to see women as unknowable versus the understanding. Though I can see that it is a possible area of contention also.
I am asking that what does such principles is suppose to implicate to our mindset. The best answer, pulling from memory, is "women are women, you can't fault them as you can fault a dog for his instincts." But, that doesn't really answer it still. Does that mean I should look at a girl no higher than a dog?
Please excuse me for bringing this up, I know you get asked a lot about this in one form or another and no one want to drag personal stuff in, but you don't wake up seeing and then thinking about your wife the same way Squirrels thinks when he sees a pretty chick, do you? Either you have to incorporate it in a way that doesn't make you see every girl as some heartless user or at least given your wife some level of an exception pass against all the other girls. Do you differentiate at all? Or do you see every girl as a normal guy would see in a drunk, slvtty chick in her more worse moments with better behavior as only an insincere facade? Or something a bit better or perhaps assume the worse but reassess if they show a better side?