Kontextmaschine

11th November 2018

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Anonymous asked: u think that bc you have a specific narrow male persp. every guy of note whose been #M2'd has been: awkward/old/fat/ugly, or otherwise a guy who could believably score higher caliber women by dint of natural attractiveness. as economic precariousness increases, its at base a revolt against having to fuck for economic opportunity

Well yeah I’ve got a heterosexual male perspective, so obvs. I’m dealing with the shit it throws up from that angle

Like of the common “why aren’t I, a dork, getting the poontang I’m entitled to”, a lot of the “manosphere”, “red pill”, “ladder theory” responses were like “flighty women only go for high status”

And as reductive and insulting as that was it at least suggested a solution, like “become high status” – work to earn a lofty position, by leveraging your true awesomeness, and hold it, and women will authentically find it appealing; it was the slow life trajectory alternative to flash in a pan pretty boys

And it was believable because high status men - celebrities, the rich - did seem to reliably have appealing mates, more than you’d expect without

But if you looked at the manosphere/redpill/etc. praxis, a lot of it - “game”, “kino”, - was fundamentally about developing the habitus of deciding what was happening by yourself and then using charisma and social power to put over an understanding of it as proper after the fact, working often enough if you tried it on every girl you meet, letting them bear externalities

(and I kind of experienced this direct that month I took Lexapro and walked around totally disinhibited grabbing ass in bars and getting slapped a few times but also laid a lot more than I’d expect)

And from the sound of the MeToo stuff this is a lot of how the “celebrity” bonus actually worked for high status nebbishy men, with a lot of “social power” and a regular rotation of pretty young women as the denominator

And for a while I’d been like “well I’m not a young stud OR a pushy manipulator, but I can work towards my dream of abundant sex with perky supplicants by being deservedly respected” and seeing how much of (3) was really (2) in disguise is a disillusioning letdown, man

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