Here’s the bravely anonymous alpha blogger behind “Danger & Play ~ An online magazine for alpha males” explaining “Why You Should Cheat on Your Girlfriend.” I’ve bolded my favorite bit:
Haters will tell you to, “Man up! Break up with your girlfriend if you’re not happy.” They are missing the point. You want to have your cake, and to eat it too. Steady, reliable pussy and the occasional strange is the best of all worlds.
Cheating is a lot of fun, and it’s something I highly recommend. It’s way more exhilarating than bungee jumping, and few things feel as good as banging your girlfriend on the same day you banged some strange.
Cheating keeps your game tight. The best way to regulate your girlfriend is knowing you can bang chicks as hot or hotter than your girl. Well, when you cheat, this isn’t hypothetical. It’s reality.
Somehow I’m guessing there’s a lot more “hypothetical” than “reality” going on in this guy’s posts.
You don’t want an exclusive relationship? Fine. There’s no law saying you have to be in one. You can date casually and non-exclusively. You can have an open or polyamorous relationship. There are a lot of people out there in relationships, yet happily fucking other people outside of them. They’re just above board with it.
But that’s not what’s going on with our PUA friend here. With his talk about “regulat[ing]” girlfriends, he seems more interested in fucking over his girlfriend (assuming such a creature really exists) than he is in fucking strangers (sorry, “stranges”).
That’s not “Game.” That’s just being a dick.
But, hey, Nietzsche! He’s BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL! Or, as he puts it in a comment, “Shame and guilt are beta.”
You know, if you have to go around telling everyone what an Nietzschean ubermensch you are, you’re probably aren’t much of a Nietzschean ubermensch.
Regarding demonizing sociopaths: If that’s how my post read, I didn’t intend it. I know not all sociopaths are malicious, and I didn’t mean to imply otherwise, just to state that Brandon’s posts here seem utterly lacking in empathy, as well as several other characteristics typical of sociopaths.
I learned that predator rapists who use alcohol instead of force aren’t “the real problem.” Women who drink alcohol in the company of other people are. Who knew!
Simon is wise in the ways of the world, and in Buddhism.
Luckily for him if he spouts off this kind of nonsense in front of an actual Buddhist their devotion to compassion might give them enough self-restraint not to yell at him.
But no, everybody else has to accommodate to people who suffer from self-inflicted heedlessness
So you believe we should not “accommodate” them. What should we do? :3
@Brandon: I don’t expect you to care what I think of you (though it would be nice if you’d learn to spell my name before you engage me). I’m just hoping that if enough people post to tell you how fucked up you are, you might eventually realize that if everyone’s response to your posts is “What the fuck” then it might be you who has the problem here.
Ami, I kept meaning to say this but getting distracted by Brandon’s, well, Brandon-ness:
I looked up “awesome” in the dictionary and your picture was next to it.
I’d add Ami’s picture to the Wikipedia page for “awesome,” but I am tech illiterate.
Lauralot: Brandon isn’t the problem. He’s a brilliant dude, who works in the financial sector, knows all about the law (which is why he knows that one can totes replicate all the legal benefits of marriage with a few contracts), understands world finance (Gold baby!), and is so studly that no woman in the world can attack him without doing more damage to herself than to him (and that only if he restrains himself).
It’s all about Brandon, and what problems there are in the world stem from people not realisig that.
OMG, those Dos Equis ads are about Brandon!
Brandon knows what happened to Jimmy Hoffa.
And here I thought they were just a retread of those annoying Chuck Norris jokes. Unless those were secretly about Brandon too.
When talking to the police, other than as witness to a specific incident’ at the time of the incident, the best advice I can give (speaking as a trained interrogator), have a lawyer.
I am willing to speak to them, on any matter, if I have a lawyer. If I don’t have a lawyer, I won’t.
If they insist, I tell them I am willing to answer any question as soon as my lawyer is present. If they try to continue, I leave; giving them the number of my lawyer, should they wish to continue communication.
Brandon has a beard, behind which is yet another beard. The second beard is false, and conceals a video camera that can tape anyone having sex anywhere in the world.
Holding that camera is a fist.
If you can see Brandon, he can see you. If you can’t see Brandon, he is filming you having sex.
@Moewicus: Is the first beard named Ashley? 😀
If you are filming Brandon having sex, we still don’t know how he feels about that, since he refuses to answer the question.
That beard! How it giggles.
The giggling is the worst. And when it asks to be spanked, it sends a chill down my spine. That beard haunts me, gives me nightmares every night.
Also, Brandon: If it were about “sexual protection”, you would have no problem seeking your partners’ consent to be filmed. Since you are hell-bent on doing it without their knowledge or consent — and since we’ve pointed out umpteen ways in which this wouldn’t even be effective as a defense against an FRA — clearly, you would be doing it for kicks, to derive enjoyment from humiliating and sexually abusing women who have done you no wrong.
That thing about you being a “productive” member of society — bullshit. Being a productive member means you contribute something, which is against your principles. Most of your life, you’ve lived on your parents’ dime. That “job” you had at your father’s law office — that was charity. To the extent that you have any education, the lion’s share of it was financed by the taxpayers. Since you only earn enough to pay for your basic needs, you rely on others to finance the infrastructure that you use every day and to pass and enforce laws that protect you from people life yourself. The least you can do to repay everything this society has done for you is not commit crimes or gratuitously harm other people.
@kirbywarp imgur.com worked really well, you don’t even have to register to upload images. I know it’s just one sad little blog, but changing comments really bugs me. He wants all the perceived benefit of having people publicly agree with him, but if they don’t, he gets to force them to do so. I’m rather fond of the social contract, give and take and respect and all that, and there’s definitely a social contract that you don’t change what people say to make them look bad.
I am now convinced that Brandon is a randroid. And the more of his posts I read, the more I am reminded of this brilliant essay by Gin and Tacos.
For a moment I read that last comment as “Brandon is an android” and thought, well, I can see why you’d think that, but isn’t he a bit illogical for an android?
Amused: From various posts, I agree. He is certainly a Randian Fellow Traveller.
I was responding to DSC; I don’t remember you saying anything on the subject?
See, the thing is that it’s possible to not be an asshole to others even if you don’t have any empathy whatsoever. You can reason your way to being just.
GUYS GUYS GUYS I figured out who/what Brandon is!
He’s a group of creative writing students tasked with collectively coming up with the most plausibly odious character ever. Soon they will come clean and tell us we’ve been pwned.
(BTW, the creative writing class is led by Brett Easton Ellis, who will probably make Brandon a supporting character in his next book, “The Nauseating Upper-Class Narcissist and All Of His Friends Who Are Exactly Like Him Only More Annoying”.)
Only if you include the wellbeing/interests/harm to others as a central part of the equation. If you, you are just acting in a way that superficially appears to have some shared features to genuine ethical and justice considerations.
I think there are good policy reasons not to punish sociopaths until they commit harm, but I do not like them and I think caution is warranted. I feel similar ways about pedophiles who have not yet molested.