On June 03 2011 13:01 Garth wrote: This is PUA at action. anything vile here?
A lot of guys will look at this and think: "What a dick, he's not giving her space". But if you think about it - if a chick came up to you and did this, would you be pissed off at her? Of course not. A large part of the PUA community is about overcoming misconceptions about the opposite gender. You can see in the video that she is actually loving it.
Why? The girls don't seem to feel bad for themselves, in fact they appear to be quite happy with the outcome. I think the girls would more feel bad about what you've written here, saying that scoring is something you feel bad for them about. Girs want to get with guys as much as guys want to get with girls. Most guys just lack the courage to do itl.
Because I'm guessing those girls weren't interested in being filmed for an online quasi-tutorial on how to quickly escalate physically with women. They most likely thought that they were making a real connection and--this is just my opinion--that they probably became furious when they saw themselves in that video.
If they actually had no problem with being filmed that way and discovering that their entire interaction was completely fake for everyone but them then maybe I am missing something here.
You take things way too seriously. If you were in a video like this and you were the one being filmed getting picked up by a girl, would you be furious? If you have experience with girls then you know that they know how to laugh at themselves and have a good sense of humour.
Because I'm guessing those girls weren't interested in being filmed for an online quasi-tutorial on how to quickly escalate physically with women. They most likely thought that they were making a real connection and--this is just my opinion--that they probably became furious when they saw themselves in that video.
If they actually had no problem with being filmed that way and discovering that their entire interaction was completely fake for everyone but them then maybe I am missing something here.
In fact, you are almost pedastalling them to some extent. Girls hate that some guys seem to think that they have some higher duty to protect them from 'unscrupulous' people, to the point where you're defending them from being filmed in a fun pickup video. Trust me, chicks hate it when guys defend them over stuff they don't need defending from.
Edit: See this article for example:
There is a popular theory that white knighters — those men who jump at the chance to defend the virtue of women at every opportunity, no matter if the defense is warranted — are beta males who hope their stirring gallantry will get them into women’s panties. Offering a shoulder to cry on or an indignant word after an asshole hurts the girl of their dreams, these men turn themselves into emotional tampons with the goal of sneaking into the pussy when she is at her most vulnerable.
They usually fail, but they keep at it because once in a blue moon, it works. Yes, most men with some choice in women would balk at spending so much time and effort trying to tap a reticent snatch, and at the cost of so much dignity, but the white knighter emo dude has the patience of a saint. Or a eunuch.
But, honestly, how many guys like this do you see in real life? They exist, sure, but not in the numbers assumed. Especially after college, when adult men simply don’t have the time to waste on platonically orbiting a oneitis who can juggle ten blue balls at once.
Instead, I’d like to offer some different explanations for the white knight phenomenon.
The Oblivious Super Alpha Male
Surprisingly few alpha males — those men who are good with women — are white knighters. Experience with women disabuses such men of any romantic notions of the fairer sex. You will hardly ever hear an alpha male praising the sublime virtues of women because he knows they have none (as a gender). But a few alpha males do embrace the white knight schtick. These are the snobby guys who have had no trouble getting women since they can remember, and are so high status that they have never seen the seedy, gritty, grimy part of women’s natures. Women are extra careful around very high status men to present only their sanitized best, so the super alpha never gets to know the annoying shit that women put typical men through. As a result, he is genuinely perplexed when he hears other men complain about women’s behavior, and feels a compulsion to rush to the women’s defense.
The Father of a Daughter
He knows better, but because he has a female charge under his supervision and caretaking, he hypocritically enforces social sanctions against lifting the veil on women’s true sexual natures. This is as much for his benefit as his daughter’s. If beta males stopped white knighting for his daughter, she would be nakedly exposed to the merciless vagaries of the dating market, and suitors would not bend over backwards to please his daughter with gifts of myrrh and golden pedestals. It is in a a father’s interest for young men to glorify his precious little princess, and provide for her and her dalliances with the DJ.
The Married Schlub/”I’m in a relationship” Guy
You know that lifeless herb who has been married for so long that he doesn’t remember what it was like to be single and on the prowl for pussy? Or how about that oddly proud guy who can’t wait to blurt out at the flimsiest excuse that he’s in a relationship? A lot of white knighters are drawn from this group of men, because being in a marriage or long term relationship clouds a man’s perceptiveness of women. Like heated molecules in a chamber, LTRs tend to settle from a high entropy state into a comfortable equilibrium of Netflix queues, sushi and missionary style. Men in these testes-shriveling circumstances lose their powers of observation and begin to assume all women are just like their contented, faithful (and aging) partners. It’s a classic case of psychological projection, whereby men ensconced in secure relationships project their limited experience with their wives or girlfriends onto all of womankind. These men are often the most infuriating white knighters, because when you listen to them blab on and on about “treating women with respect” and all the good women that are out there, you know that as soon as they get cheated on or dumped by their cow girlfriends they’ll be blaming themselves right to the grave.
The Male Feminist
Similar to the gallant bait-and-switch beta males, male feminists are their ideological cousins who try to ingratiate themselves to the slutty fat feminists in their company in hopes of tapping some water balloon-shaped vulvae. These guys wear shirts that say “this is what a feminist looks like” and cross their legs when they sit. They are huge hypocrites, because despite having been on the receiving end of a lot of female neglect, manipulation and shit testing, they still cling to their unctuous little ideology. Ideologues are auto-brainwashed. They will never see the light. Best just to enjoy a cruel laugh at their expense.
The Self-Denier
Imagine a plush beta male who has experienced nothing but woe with women. He has been LJBFed, ignored, pitied, humored, used, dumped and drained of all his resources except his balls. He’s not repulsive to women, but he just doesn’t much turn them on, and he can’t figure out why. He grows bitter with the years and the fat chicks and wrinkly cougars he manages to bang as a consolation prize. The truth about women stares him in the face — in fact, smacks him upside the head every day — and yet he clings to platitudes and juvenile romantic idealism with all his power, afraid that should he let go, his whole dating life will be revealed for the sham it is. In self-deception, there is sanity. Oftentimes, the most emphatically dogmatic white knighters are these hopeless losers in love, teetering on the precipice of revelation, a hairsbreadth away from total ego meltdown.
The Deeply Embedded Gene Machine
Underlying it all is the genetic machinery that propels groups and nations of men in different sociosexual directions. Fittingly, white knighting appears to be predominately an ethnically European white man disease. Those schooled in the science of evolutionary psychology would say that harsh winters evolved a modern European man predisposed to monogamy and, hence, to jealously guarding the virtue of his mate. White knighting and pedestalizing thus serve the dual functions of artificially boosting the perceived value of a potential lifelong mate, and of warning male interlopers away.
There are too many forces in motion that keep white knighting alive and relevant, so unless outposts like this humble blog go global with the truth about women, there is almost no chance that more than an enlightened minority of men will wake up to reality.
On June 03 2011 11:51 BackHo wrote: Here's a good example of a PUA in action:
The 'tricks' and methods he use may be cheesy, or as some here claim, 'manipulative' - but you can see that the girls love it.
Haha pretty funny. Can't deny the guy has some skills. I think the reality is though that some of us will never be able to be that smooth no matter how much 'training' we do, despite what the experts say. I think PUA skills can unlock potential in some people but for many that kind of ability just will never manifest. Plus if you're really, really funny looking certain girls are always going to be out of your league. They might give you their number out of sympathy but there's unlikely to be much follow-up.
You take things way too seriously. If you were in a video like this and you were the one being filmed getting picked up by a girl, would you be furious? If you have experience with girls then you know that they know how to laugh at themselves and have a good sense of humour.
Yeah that's a good point. I guess if no one ends up getting hurt then all is good. I also read roissy's blog quite a bit, but that was a good article for others who don't.
In fact, you are almost pedastalling them to some extent. Girls hate that some guys seem to think that they have some higher duty to protect them from 'unscrupulous' people, to the point where you're defending them from being filmed in a fun pickup video. Trust me, chicks hate it when guys defend them over stuff they don't need defending from.
Edit: See this article for example:
Those clearly are not real alpha male white knights. If a guy PREVENTS a girl from acting on her own and interrupts her flow of life, then that its just somebody who thinks he knows whats better for the girl, but in reality serves his own selfishness.
A true real alpha white knight is someone who genuinely wants the other's persons happiness and would help others in order to stabilize others emotions and make them stronger too.
He doesn't INSIST on helping, but only helps when he is truly needed.
This definitely sounded cheesy, but people must different from fake white knights and (alpha) white knights.
...or fake alpha males and real alpha males in general.
It's all about joining a good group like RSD. The focus isn't on "techniques" or "seduction". It's basically expressing yourself, taking massive action to get this part of your life handled, and having fun. It's tough to start out, which is why a lot of guys go on bootcamps (to get a feel that it is possible for them to do it successfully), but after that it's staying consistent by going out and just talking to chicks. There's nothing much to it. But there is no shortcut; you have to be willing to get embarrassed while getting new experiences, which is why many guys quit or rationalize that they don't need to do this kind of thing to be happy.
I also laugh at all the definitions, theory, and such that people post. You won't remember 99% of that in the field when talking with a girl. The only realizations you need or come up with come from you and your experiences. They may work for other people, but there is no other shortcut; even if another dude reads it, it won't mean very much until they go out themselves.
Lol to those who thinks that "being nice" is the way to go with women.
Trust me, during high school, I was doing the "nice thing" to this one person like giving her tips on hmwk, helping with stuff and etc. Spend about 6 month trying to even asking her out but she always end up changing up the subject. I guess you could say that I was being "friendZoned" or what ever they say these days.
But then one day I decided to be more adventurous. Instead of just asking her to do something and hoping for a positive answer, I went out and said "We are doing (insert actions here)." and "we will be doing (insert actions here)". Suddenly the way she acted around me became totally different. I felt that I was in control of everything and I am standing above her in all aspect and she started sucking up to me. But then I told myself that she isn't that good looking and moved on with another women.
I don't want to post unnecessarily (or post things that are too long), but something from a PUA instructor that I really loved:
[Its really long, but it might really be worth the read. This is what PUA can be]
The Victim Mentality (How to Rewrite Our Stories & Change Our Roles) At long last, my post on the victim mentality & and letting go of our roles. I have been waiting a long time to write this because in a way it is a tribute to how far I have come and how much I have had to overcome to be here with you right now as the author. Part of the reason this took me so long was because this was very emotional for me and I had to determine how much I was going to share with the internet. As I have become more comfortable with my past I have begun to be able to talk more about it and I actually tell students on my bootcamps pretty intimate details about who I am and how I got here. I want them to know if I could overcome all the adversity that destroyed my childhood, and a good part of my identity , to be a success they can do it also.
I would like to start with some definitions. People often ask me why I put definitions in my posts; I do this because I think if we are going to discuss something like mature adults we all need to agree on the important terms. I want what we talk about to be definitive, not subjective. So without further ado let’s get started. These are all definitions found on Wikipedia.
What is a victim? An unfortunate person who suffers from some adverse circumstance.
What does it mean to have a mentality? A habitual or characteristic mental attitude that determines how you will interpret and respond to situations.
What is a role? A role or a social role is a set of connected behaviors, rights and obligations as conceptualized by actors in a social situation. It is mostly defined as an expected behavior in a given individual social status and social position. Roles and mentalities are very similar and they often walk hand in hand (ie you will have certain mentalities based on the roles you play).
What does it mean to be a hero? The main character in a story, who drives the plot, or around whom plot is structured. Often, but not always the protagonist.
What is the ego? In Psychoanalysis the conscious mind, self: your consciousness of your own identity
What is an archtype? An originally Jungian term referring to the primordial and universal images that he believed underlie and are manifested in myth, symbol, religion, art, and personal understandings of the world, and "evoke deep and sometimes unconscious responses".
Now that we have our definitions straight let’s get started shall we? We have a dictionary definition of what it means to be a hero but I would like to reframe that. I believe the hero is the person who is the author of his own story and reframes his wounds into a source of power. At one point or another in our lives we have all been emotionally hurt. I am not here to judge who had it better or worse. What I am here to say is that by looking at the traumas you experienced you can find both strength from within yourself and compassion for others who have either experienced the same situation, or who are also victims (remember the definition is “some form of adverse circumstances, it doesn’t specifically say what”).
A lot of times I get asked via private messages (or in the original thread) well how do I accomplish xyz (whatever the subject of the article is). I will try to make this point over and over about how to accomplish the reframing of your stories and thus the roles you play in them. I believe this will be by far my most important contribution to the community. This is really important guys so please take it in doses if need be.
You begin this process by shedding your metaphorical skin (much like a snake does because the body has outgrown it). The former stories are part of you yes, they always will be, but they don’t have to define you, you don’t have to be limited by the roles of your previous story (more on this later). Once you release yourself from these roles (which are limitations by the very fact that they are definitions), you become empowered to weave a new yarn. The new story in which you are no longer the guy who doesn’t get girls, the high school loser, the child whose life was destroyed by his parents, etc.
These roles you have decided to play are merely arbitrary labels that you have created to explain who you are and what happened to you. These personal tales are just stories you have created, they ARE NOT YOU. Whether the stories are a byproduct of your own creation or someone else created them for you, you confuse them with reality. This is where suffering begins. Buddha said attachment is the root of all suffering. I am not going to get into a philosophical debate about Buddhism (though I think it is super interesting and have made a study of both it and Zen). In this case we are attached to labels, roles, (whatever), that affix to our story. These characters are like demons who will never go away and constantly want to be fed and nurtured. We MUST exorcise them.
See here is the issue; because we really believe this (remember our definition of mentality), the demons will not go away. They literally hover over us, the guy who wishes he had done something different and wonders why he is alone, the haunting of a relationship that destroyed us (this actually leads people into the community; at least it led me and many of my students). Side note, I believe if someone were to ever conduct a survey on what drives people into the community I believe it would be the haunting by the great love they once had and how they are unable to duplicate that. They are scared they will forever be alone, that they got “lucky” that one time. That’s just a guess based on talking to 100’s of students. These demons manifest as voices in your head and no matter how hard you try you can’t silence them. They just won’t leave you alone.
There is an old riddle that says what eats and eats and eats until there is nothing left to eat? The answer is a fire. The problem with our stories, these roles, and the demons is we are more than willing to feed them. There is ALWAYS more to eat. There are plenty of people in their 50’s who wish they had been a better parent, people in their 20’s who want to do high school over again, and the ghost of the love that we lost and will not stop haunting us. We are our own worst enemy. We sit there and think and think and beat ourselves up. We are way too hard on ourselves. One think I teach in the inner game portion of my bootcamps is the power of forgiveness; the power of forgiving yourself and others. I might write an article on that. Two of my next topics that people will vote on are gratitude and forgiveness (along with the other 3 that never seem to go away lol).
All these stories are logical rationalizations for why we act the way we do. It’s not my fault… It was my parents, I didn’t go to a good enough school, I was born too short, not pretty enough, not rich enough, etc. Now here comes the mindfuck #1. As long as we cling to these stories and believe they are real all we are doing is feeding the ghosts and we are not really healing. At first glance this might appear counterintuitive… It might seem like we are healing because we are dealing with our emotions but we are not. We are stuck in repetitive cycle of self abuse that does not help us change anything.
How do we craft new stories? We can start by recognizing how experiences in our childhood helped mold us while we were malleable. A lot of these experiences are via by our parents, peer group, location and our culture. It is time to outlive that story and to craft a new one that is more aligned with a Hero’s journey. You can let go of the guy who was not successful with women, the parent who made errors while parenting or the child who was victimized because his parents were unable to parent. It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day.
I am not trying to trivialize how hard this is. These stories are so engrained and internalized in us that when we rethink them we might actually regress. This is because we falsely believe that these stories are who we are. While thinking about his story of victimization the confident CEO might actually slump his shoulders and walk with his head down as he recalls tales of abuse at his parent’s hand. This is one of the reasons we focus so much on body language in bootcamps . Her words (yours also), can lie, but here body never can (unless she’s a stripper and then we are talking about very specific exceptions not the general rule.)
Whatever view you have of your role in your story you will embody and people will respond to you in kind. Especially women who are much better at reading non verbal information then men. They have to… it’s a survival skill. Don’t believe me? Test it out, wait till some guy hits on one of your female friends and creeps her out. Ask about if she felt the guy was creepy and if so why? Most of the times you will get a response like, ”I don’t why I feel that way… he just was.” What is really happening is that he is inadvertently tripping off the creepy alarm by a combination of things. She doesn’t even know why but in her mind she has enough data to come back with that judgment, it’s an unconscious process which is why she is unaware of it.
Ready for our second mindfuck? Let’s talk about why we cling to our stories. Why why why? We cling to our stories because we actually benefit from them all the while they are also causing us suffering. Huh? Usually the main payoff is the lack of need to change and the ego’s glory of being a victim. People are creatures are inherently lazy, most people do what they do because they HAVE TO DO IT. Not because they want to. Pop psyche 101 says humans align with pleasure and move away from pain. Humans are also creatures of habit and most fear change (a great book to read if you have this problem is who moved my cheese). In Buddhism they say the only constant is change (this goes along with why we suffer because we are attached to things; situations, roles, events, people, etc).
It is easier to stay bad with girls (for a variety reasons, one is how close this skillset is to the gender role of being a man. Another is how much honesty it takes to fix all the different parts of your life to be successful with women. To get really high quality girls so much has to be right… I really believe pickup is the pinnacle of self-improvement.) See, to admit we need to be better with girls we first have to admit some kind of deficiency. That would mean work and new patterns and the shattering of our ego’s little notion of comfort . Also it is way easier to blame everything and everyone under the sun then it is to man up and say no mas.
Finally another reason is you would have to release the ego’s need to be in charge of telling the story. Hang tight we are about to go for a ride. The ego is the very self itself (weird saying self twice in a row but alas I digress). The ego has a super powerful drive to stay alive… it will just about do anything to ensure its survival. In this case it will even fight off the very healing you are trying to accomplish when you feed the demons. It needs to be right. Let me provide an example. Ever argue with someone and in your heart of hearts you wanted to stop fighting and find common ground? Why didn’t you stop fighting? Probably because your ego insisted that you were right (had more knowledge, had the better argument, whatever) and thus you felt you needed to be right. You HAD TO HAVE that validation. Your ego has played a big trick on you, it has tricked you into thinking that if you let go of your stories you will lose your identity . Well if I am not the victim, the xyz, then who am I? Who am I???
What’s scary is that our stories are really the equivalent to a death sentence for the hero within us. They demand that we fit into very narrow boxes and whatever doesn’t fit in that box we scrap. Am I pickup artist? God , I hate that term. I am a guy who is pretty social and good with girls yes but that doesn’t define me. I am also, a son, a friend, a lover, a teacher, a student and so many other things. What / who I am is an enigma and with each day (and each bootcamp weirdly enough) I learn more and more about what and who that is.
Most roles have to end, if you define yourself as a pickup artist will you really be doing pickup at 60, 70, 80? If you are a teacher won’t you eventually retire, if you are a parent wont your kids grow up and eventually leave home? How will your roles shift then? You will have to create a new identity and this can be so scary for some. People really fear change.
Mindfuck #3 (not that we are counting or anything lol); every character in your story presents false evidence of who you are. When you insist in seeing others in only the role you feel they play in your story (parent, employer, student, sibling,) you lose out on the opportunity of seeing who they truly are. This is one of the reasons I get so many good reviews. I don’t just see a student, I see a human being who I can find good things about and who I can learn from and bond with. It is not a mistake that more than once people have written about me they feel that they have made a lifelong friend. That’s because they have. That’s because I don’t see just see limit myself t seeing them in the student role and nothing else.
Every story has characters that play roles. Assuming the role of the hero means to drop the roles that limit us and that we identity with and the beliefs they hold to be true (especially limiting beliefs if nothing else but better to drop the entire role). I saw someone with a quote on another messageboard I am on that said this: Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny. This is a classic example of the true self is always coming through and why roles that we identify with that our negative are toxic to our very existence.
What defines a role? A role is a hodpodge of beliefs and expectations (this could also be called a mentality). When these expectations are not met by others we have a strong emotional reaction (usually a negative one). When we scrap our roles we can just do and just be (the power of now ). We no longer take things personally because we transcend our ego’s incessant need for both validation and attention (easier said than done I know).
Why should we shed our stories? It seems like it is a lot of work (it is!!) The best reason to let go of your stories is because in your stories you can never truly heal. You are too attached. Your terrible siblings will continue to be terrible, you will continue to be bad with girls, you will continue down the path of negativity because that is what the story is built around. It is a self fulfilling prophecy.
However what you can do is create an epic tale of a hero’s journey because if you are going to write a story it might as well be grandiose (go big or go home). Let them be empowering tales. My old story was one of mistrust, hate, of having my childhood ruined, of thinking I was black while I was white to going back to black to white. A story of getting beaten up, of parents throwing me away, of people who I loved and trusted destroying me. I use to think God had it in for me man. My new story is one of triumphing adversity of hitting rock bottom to rise from my ashes like a phoenix (which is why I identity with the symbolism so much). A story of how some kid 5 7 165 at grey hair has become a MM / Lovesystems Instructor (and a pretty good one based on my reviews, sorry ego moment lol). My story is one of hope, of love, of seeing the best in my students and the best that life has to offer. I was never a victim, I see that now. These new stories are way better than the old ones. The ones where I was so damaged that I thought I could never trust people again.
I want to say again that NONE OF THE STORIES ARE TRUE. They are just tales you have created to explain reality from an egocentric point of view. They live on (as do the demons) because you continue to live in the past (in the present, living in the past in the present, sounds weird but very true). You continue to be the guy who was hurt by his parents, who was cheated on by his ex, is an underappreciated employee, etc. Even the new empowering stories are not really true. They will help you navigate the path of life but they are not the path itself. (The map is not the territory NLP heads make some noise!!!)
It’s only when we create these new empowering stories that we can truly begin to heal. We can drop the story of how our mom was selfish and how things could have turned out differently if only if. If only if is a virus IMO (along with cocky funny but alas I digress). Maybe a new positive story is one of how our mother taught us the value of being independent (does anyone see the reframing going on here?) We can think about our stepfather who was cruel and judgmental and script a new story of how when we are judgmental and cruel we will hurt people. How in a twisted way this person taught us to value tolerance.
You know if more people put together these stories we probably could just dump most psychotherapy. I suggest you try Anthony Robin’s 10 positivity challenge. Sinn told me about this. For 10 days you have to reframe every negative thought that comes into your mind within 2 minutes. If at any point you can’t do it (say 9.75 days in) you start at day 1 again. Mad hard but an amazing experience, I just reframe reframes now if that makes any sense. If you look at my field report from Atlanta where I had the first shit test that was just me being me. I didn’t think “how am I going to past this test”. I don’t have to try to pass tests. I just exist and pass them. Kind of zen I guess.
Now we are about go even deeper. Let’s talk about the 3 archetypal characters in our stories. Before we can begin healing, (and really that is why I wrote this article, to help others heal, I constantly have students who will benefit from this), we need to be aware of these stories that we are telling ourselves. Most people don’t even know that these stories exist (you do because you are reading this but to the average person they are destination clueless). You might, even though you are reading this, not be aware of just how tightly your ego will cling to the stories. You might get defensive and think you have a right to hold on to your “truths”. You might think thoughts like that you truly have been abandoned, or victimized, betrayed, hurt, destroyed, etc. If you can do what it takes to let go of these limiting roles you can change your life man. You can reinvent yourself and create a story that is empowering, one of hope, overcoming of negativity one that will not only change you but how people react to you.
There are 3 main archetypes that show up again and again as reoccuring roles in victimizing / disempowering stories. These 3 characters form what is called the triangle of disempowerment. These characters are the victim, the perpetrator (bully) and the rescuer. A classic example would be a child who needs to be taken into child services, that is the victim. The bully is the parents and the rescuer is the child service worker.
As I said earlier people work in patterns. When we play the role of victim in the triangle we create bonds with both other characters but we are creating bonds over trauma. In classic literature on victimization these are commonly referred to as trauma bonds . We are due to act out these roles over and over again because in a sense it is easier to do this then change. It is the same reason that you talk to people in dysfunctional marriages or relationships and ask why they don’t just leave and they sigh and look at you with this look of the walking dead and go they just can’t. Bullshit, they just won’t. The best odds of healing are when people step out of these roles but that is way easier said than done. We are more comfortable defining ourselves by what has happened in the past.
When we retell (reframe) our stories we can begin to uncover the powerful and empowering messages that these stories have for us. It is then that we begin to forgive and begin our journey of healing. Unfortunately as we change people will not necessarily change with us and may drift out of our lives. This has come up time and time again on the forum, whether it is afc friends who don’t like the idea of you doing approaches and not drinking as much. Or friends who use to belittle that don’t like the idea that you are no longer engaging in self deprecating humor to the girl who has been treating you poorly and now does not like that you are no longer accepting her second class behavior. If you look to others to foster this and encourage you to explore your new self you might find yourself disappointed. This is why you have to align yourself with likeminded people (like people found in lairs although some of those people need to heal also). I have met 2 people from this board via the wing forum and I can say that both are still my friends and one of them is a best friend now. That being said I have heard mixed results about lairs and the wing forum (I can’t comment on lairs because I am not associated with one).
We may have issues with a school teacher who is a nympho or likes BDSM or dj / promoter who is also a volunteer at a hostile or any other polarity of roles. However once we begin to pass less judgment and see people for beyond their roles we can truly love and experience who these people are. When you walk the way of the hero you get past your and other people’s roles.
One last thing I want to speak on is rewriting our story in regards to our parents. Only when we can make peace and no longer hold them responsible for our lives can we break the vicious cycle of behaviors we inherited from them (ever wonder why girls hate being told they are just like their mother lol). We let go out of stories such as I am bad with girls because my mother damaged me, or I am a failure because my father was too hard on me. We can make peace and no longer be a victim of what was done to us. We can be thankful and be grateful for all our gifts, experiences and opportunities no matter how painful it was to receive them.
I want to dedicate this article to 3 people. My father who didn’t live long enough to watch his boy become a man. Who didn’t know how to be parent and participated in destroying my childhood. To my mother who will never live down what she did to me no matter how much I tell her I have forgiven her. She will take our history to the grave and never forgive herself and that really makes me sad to the point of tears while I write this. Finally to my best friend someone who betrayed and hurt me so much that I never thought I would be able to trust someone again. He is back in my life and In a lot of ways he helped me become the person I am today and I will never be able to repay that debt no matter how hard I try.
I forgive them all for everything because it was not their fault. At the time they were victims also and just playing their part in my / their stories
You cannot blame this community for existing, nor can you blame those community members for their opinions of women as a whole.
This entire PUA thing is a response to how entitled women have been when it comes to relationships and other social interaction with men. If you want to blame anyone, why don't you blame them for keeping up ridiculous double standards for years? Or do you think more than 1 in 10 women is currently willing to switch gender roles and accept the "typically male" responsibilities when it comes to relationships, such as asking the other person out? You'd be wrong.
Because I'm guessing those girls weren't interested in being filmed for an online quasi-tutorial on how to quickly escalate physically with women. They most likely thought that they were making a real connection and--this is just my opinion--that they probably became furious when they saw themselves in that video.
If they actually had no problem with being filmed that way and discovering that their entire interaction was completely fake for everyone but them then maybe I am missing something here.
In fact, you are almost pedastalling them to some extent. Girls hate that some guys seem to think that they have some higher duty to protect them from 'unscrupulous' people, to the point where you're defending them from being filmed in a fun pickup video. Trust me, chicks hate it when guys defend them over stuff they don't need defending from.
There is a popular theory that white knighters — those men who jump at the chance to defend the virtue of women at every opportunity, no matter if the defense is warranted — are beta males who hope their stirring gallantry will get them into women’s panties. Offering a shoulder to cry on or an indignant word after an asshole hurts the girl of their dreams, these men turn themselves into emotional tampons with the goal of sneaking into the pussy when she is at her most vulnerable.
They usually fail, but they keep at it because once in a blue moon, it works. Yes, most men with some choice in women would balk at spending so much time and effort trying to tap a reticent snatch, and at the cost of so much dignity, but the white knighter emo dude has the patience of a saint. Or a eunuch.
But, honestly, how many guys like this do you see in real life? They exist, sure, but not in the numbers assumed. Especially after college, when adult men simply don’t have the time to waste on platonically orbiting a oneitis who can juggle ten blue balls at once.
Instead, I’d like to offer some different explanations for the white knight phenomenon.
The Oblivious Super Alpha Male
Surprisingly few alpha males — those men who are good with women — are white knighters. Experience with women disabuses such men of any romantic notions of the fairer sex. You will hardly ever hear an alpha male praising the sublime virtues of women because he knows they have none (as a gender). But a few alpha males do embrace the white knight schtick. These are the snobby guys who have had no trouble getting women since they can remember, and are so high status that they have never seen the seedy, gritty, grimy part of women’s natures. Women are extra careful around very high status men to present only their sanitized best, so the super alpha never gets to know the annoying shit that women put typical men through. As a result, he is genuinely perplexed when he hears other men complain about women’s behavior, and feels a compulsion to rush to the women’s defense.
The Father of a Daughter
He knows better, but because he has a female charge under his supervision and caretaking, he hypocritically enforces social sanctions against lifting the veil on women’s true sexual natures. This is as much for his benefit as his daughter’s. If beta males stopped white knighting for his daughter, she would be nakedly exposed to the merciless vagaries of the dating market, and suitors would not bend over backwards to please his daughter with gifts of myrrh and golden pedestals. It is in a a father’s interest for young men to glorify his precious little princess, and provide for her and her dalliances with the DJ.
The Married Schlub/”I’m in a relationship” Guy
You know that lifeless herb who has been married for so long that he doesn’t remember what it was like to be single and on the prowl for pussy? Or how about that oddly proud guy who can’t wait to blurt out at the flimsiest excuse that he’s in a relationship? A lot of white knighters are drawn from this group of men, because being in a marriage or long term relationship clouds a man’s perceptiveness of women. Like heated molecules in a chamber, LTRs tend to settle from a high entropy state into a comfortable equilibrium of Netflix queues, sushi and missionary style. Men in these testes-shriveling circumstances lose their powers of observation and begin to assume all women are just like their contented, faithful (and aging) partners. It’s a classic case of psychological projection, whereby men ensconced in secure relationships project their limited experience with their wives or girlfriends onto all of womankind. These men are often the most infuriating white knighters, because when you listen to them blab on and on about “treating women with respect” and all the good women that are out there, you know that as soon as they get cheated on or dumped by their cow girlfriends they’ll be blaming themselves right to the grave.
The Male Feminist
Similar to the gallant bait-and-switch beta males, male feminists are their ideological cousins who try to ingratiate themselves to the slutty fat feminists in their company in hopes of tapping some water balloon-shaped vulvae. These guys wear shirts that say “this is what a feminist looks like” and cross their legs when they sit. They are huge hypocrites, because despite having been on the receiving end of a lot of female neglect, manipulation and shit testing, they still cling to their unctuous little ideology. Ideologues are auto-brainwashed. They will never see the light. Best just to enjoy a cruel laugh at their expense.
The Self-Denier
Imagine a plush beta male who has experienced nothing but woe with women. He has been LJBFed, ignored, pitied, humored, used, dumped and drained of all his resources except his balls. He’s not repulsive to women, but he just doesn’t much turn them on, and he can’t figure out why. He grows bitter with the years and the fat chicks and wrinkly cougars he manages to bang as a consolation prize. The truth about women stares him in the face — in fact, smacks him upside the head every day — and yet he clings to platitudes and juvenile romantic idealism with all his power, afraid that should he let go, his whole dating life will be revealed for the sham it is. In self-deception, there is sanity. Oftentimes, the most emphatically dogmatic white knighters are these hopeless losers in love, teetering on the precipice of revelation, a hairsbreadth away from total ego meltdown.
The Deeply Embedded Gene Machine
Underlying it all is the genetic machinery that propels groups and nations of men in different sociosexual directions. Fittingly, white knighting appears to be predominately an ethnically European white man disease. Those schooled in the science of evolutionary psychology would say that harsh winters evolved a modern European man predisposed to monogamy and, hence, to jealously guarding the virtue of his mate. White knighting and pedestalizing thus serve the dual functions of artificially boosting the perceived value of a potential lifelong mate, and of warning male interlopers away.
There are too many forces in motion that keep white knighting alive and relevant, so unless outposts like this humble blog go global with the truth about women, there is almost no chance that more than an enlightened minority of men will wake up to reality.
- Roissy.
I wouldn't consider myself a game practitioner or a member of an online community or anything, but I love reading Roissy's blog and it has unequivocally improved the quality of my life and perception of social interactions. He can be macabre and dark sometimes, but his reflections on human nature are insightful. In a way, I feel like he absolves the horrible ways men and women can treat each-other; so much of it is biological pre-determinism that doesn't have an easy solution. Chateau helps one remember that humans are animals just like anything else.
He's also not trying to fucking sell anything. The fact is that attractiveness is mostly an innate quality; more so for women than men. Men's attractiveness is far more malleable, but in the end you're either born with the high T and social predispositions women find appealing or you're not. You can do something about it, but there are still limits. If you're female, you're either born with a slender figure and feminine appearance or you're not. You can do something about it, but there are even more stringent limits. Attraction and beauty aren't social constructs; they're hard wired and animalistic, and for the most part outside an individual's control, though there's still limited efficacy through game/plastic surgery/generalized self improvement.
Unattractiveness in most males and females is not the result of some moral failure (unless its from morbid obesity and willful neglect), and for the most part shouldn't be something to be deeply ashamed of. There's some social disruptions of the sexual marketplace which can cause distortions in individual interactions, of course, but I think the general theme I get from Roissy (despite the fact that it was not his intent), is that most people really don't have a whole ton of control over this. Even he admits that learning game will probably only result in a man getting women 2 points (on a scale of 1-10) higher than he used to. Whether you're a man or a woman trying to navigate the sexual or marriage marketplace, do the best you can but don't overestimate the efficacy you have over your appeal toward the opposite sex.
A lot of guys will look at this and think: "What a dick, he's not giving her space". But if you think about it - if a chick came up to you and did this, would you be pissed off at her? Of course not. A large part of the PUA community is about overcoming misconceptions about the opposite gender. You can see in the video that she is actually loving it.
I would be really pissed off at a girl getting that close to me, but then again I don't much believe in sex.
There's a large number of guys who WON'T get women (more than a night with them etc) involved in the community, but there are other aspects.
The self-improvement and self-confidence aspect of it is huge. I know I invested in it not to be able to "pick up" girls, but to help overcome shyness around new people, to give myself general confidence and motivation boosts. Are there other ways of doing that? Sure, but not as fun as the one that encourages you to actually go out, meet new people, be an interesting person etc in the way the PUA community does.
I'm actually extremely comfortable in social situations now whereas I never used to be. I don't go out to pick up girls (well... occasionally it's what I decide to do with my night out, but that's fine ), I go out to enjoy myself. I also travel a lot, so I'm able to go out in a place I don't know or know anybody in, and still have a great time.
Some people take the confidence and being a better person aspects of the PUA community, which is what it really is at the core. It just happens to be full of desperate people who want to get GURLZ as well. The seperation between the types of people is fairly noticeable though.
The final thing is the psychology behind a lot of it is unintuitive, and yet works. I love pyschology, and I found quite a lot of new resources through the PUA community for really interesting reads (Of varying degrees of credibility)
On June 03 2011 15:40 Xiphos wrote: Lol to those who thinks that "being nice" is the way to go with women.
Trust me, during high school, I was doing the "nice thing" to this one person like giving her tips on hmwk, helping with stuff and etc. Spend about 6 month trying to even asking her out but she always end up changing up the subject. I guess you could say that I was being "friendZoned" or what ever they say these days.
But then one day I decided to be more adventurous. Instead of just asking her to do something and hoping for a positive answer, I went out and said "We are doing (insert actions here)." and "we will be doing (insert actions here)". Suddenly the way she acted around me became totally different. I felt that I was in control of everything and I am standing above her in all aspect and she started sucking up to me. But then I told myself that she isn't that good looking and moved on with another women.
So you went from blatantly just doing things for her in an effort to get her to like you to actually doing something that might be interesting and she started liking you? No way. Plus, extrapolating from the way high school girls act to the way girls you would want a long-term relationship with as an adult act seems kind of pointless.
I don't see what that has to do with being nice not being a large part of getting people to like you, though.
On June 03 2011 17:12 HoldenR wrote: You cannot blame this community for existing, nor can you blame those community members for their opinions of women as a whole.
This entire PUA thing is a response to how entitled women have been when it comes to relationships and other social interaction with men. If you want to blame anyone, why don't you blame them for keeping up ridiculous double standards for years? Or do you think more than 1 in 10 women is currently willing to switch gender roles and accept the "typically male" responsibilities when it comes to relationships, such as asking the other person out? You'd be wrong.
What problems have you personally experience with respect to double standards?
I'm willing to bet it's mostly in your head, you're inducing them to get you to try to leave them alone, or you're going after women who are likely to act that way.
A lot of guys will look at this and think: "What a dick, he's not giving her space". But if you think about it - if a chick came up to you and did this, would you be pissed off at her? Of course not. A large part of the PUA community is about overcoming misconceptions about the opposite gender. You can see in the video that she is actually loving it.
I would be really pissed off at a girl getting that close to me, but then again I don't much believe in sex.
A lot of guys will look at this and think: "What a dick, he's not giving her space". But if you think about it - if a chick came up to you and did this, would you be pissed off at her? Of course not. A large part of the PUA community is about overcoming misconceptions about the opposite gender. You can see in the video that she is actually loving it.
I would be really pissed off at a girl getting that close to me, but then again I don't much believe in sex.
how is it an hard for a handome guy to pickup a girl ? (no homo but check his other pictures hes definately tall and good looking that makes the task alot easier)