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Tom Swift's avatar

This really is the hard truth that few care to admit, and I must give you credit for daring to present it in such a cohesive and clear manner. However, I would disagree with your assertion that the concepts you advance have no bearing on your proverbial Kansan. The homeschooled Midwesterner is unfortunately going to encounter the seamier side of modern culture whether he likes it or not, especially if he has a high I.Q. and a wandering mind. He does not handle its women well, as I can relate from the experiences of far too many friends and acquaintances. Therefore, these erstwhile homeschoolers are perhaps the most likely to benefit from essays that spell out the rules of the modern dating environment in explicit terms. However, I do not yet know how many of them will find your social commentary, or if they did, would be able to square it with their own values. Too many of them would take one look at the title and mentally fast-forward on to something more palatable. I sometimes think I should try to translate these concepts into something that would not get me excommunicated.

I must admit, the Mr. Darcy analogy is a good one for your brief description of the Trad environment. A pleasant aspect of the women there is that they are in fact avid Austen novel readers, and emulating the hero's behavior therein does work.

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PowellMajors's avatar

So did anyone actually read this?

Did you count the punctuation marks?

There were only 7.

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Perry's avatar

This one interestingly feels more esoteric and less linear in its presentation than the Barstool manifesto, almost as if attempting to insulate itself from chud hermeneutics…

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Frank's avatar

The lesbos are in for an awakening. 41% of lesbian relationships are violent.

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PD Jones's avatar

They also have lower household incomes than straight peeps, and both lower than gays, on average. At least is you count who is using EBT cards.

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Frank's avatar

Maybe, maybe not. There are two lesbians on the Supreme Court, and they make the big bucks.

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PD Jones's avatar

Man, you must have some good coke.

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Frank's avatar

When liberal men get prostate cancer, they learn that their feminist pals made sure that three times more taxpayer funds are spent on breast cancer than prostate cancer

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PD Jones's avatar

I was going to say no one is looking up your asshole tho.

But you did say liberal men so maybe they are.

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Frank's avatar

Just keep that three times funding gap in mind at your next annual physical.

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Sloth-of-Bangkok's avatar

It might be very interesting if anyone can read this

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PigeonReligion's avatar

Im inspired by this table image. Ive been wanting to make an image that imagines the ‘hostess with the mostess’ of ‘all inclusive’ beurocracy. Everyone is invited. But the image will be harshly split horizontally, table-waist, she the head of the table, determining what can and can’t pass through the table top threshold of the accepted. Instead of the Overton window, the Overton dinner party. Table top etiquette. Beneath the table all that is omitted, abjected. A bit like the cat in Dominico ghirlandaoi’s last supper.

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Quix's avatar
1dEdited

Secular white dudes in tech? Do you even know who works in tech? Who the hell is a white man in tech?

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Tom Swift's avatar

Exactly. My guess is that Walt Bismarck's target audience already have enough life experience and social instinct to understand the ideas advanced in this essay without learning them consciously. The men who actually benefit from written reports of this sort of information are socially inept but intelligent ex-homeschoolers who no longer live in Kansas.

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PD Jones's avatar

Elon. This dating advice is clearly for him.

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Ebenezer's avatar

"The vast majority of women (and by extension weaker men, who’ll forever conform to womanly sensibilities like gospel) perennially rewrite their whole ontology around the Winner being good and virtuous and sensible and the Loser being gross and evil and clearly the province of dissolute shit-eating worms and by the way I’ve always known the Winner was a beneficent splendid lovely deep down!"

This must explain why women loved Harvey Weinstein for his predations and he never got cancelled!

Seriously this entire essay suffers from a bad case of "narrative as truth". Then again I think that might just be your entire blog.

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Walt Bismarck's avatar

He literally was invulnerable for years, until the system needed a sacrifice and then it all came for him at once. Pick a better example.

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Ebenezer's avatar

Sure, here are a couple hundred examples of women turning on "Winners": https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/23/us/metoo-replacements.html

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Dean Moriarty's avatar

Brilliant. As much as I, or any of us, would prefer the world not be this way, it is.

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Warmek's avatar

Well, I certainly feel remarkably old today, now...

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