Red Pill ideology isn’t just hateful and misogynistic; it’s also a remarkably bleak way to look at the world, even for the men who supposedly benefit the most from taking “the red pill” — that is, the allegedly smooth players who boast about bedding so many women on “game” blogs.
Take, for example, what you might call the “spoiled milk” theory of marriage that’s sometimes trotted out on these blogs.
Since women reach their prime young, the theory goes, then rapidly lose their looks and their value after “hitting the wall” at the age or 25 or 30, it only makes sense to marry a woman when she’s young — so you get to have sex with her before she gets all old and hideous.
If you marry her later, this means that someone else has had her at her best — and you haven’t!
As the blogger at LaidNYC argues in a post titled “Don’t Marry Any Woman Older Than 25,”
If you meet your wife when she’s older than around 23 or 24:
You are eating someone else’s cold leftovers, then doing their dishes.
You are showing up to a party after everyone has left and cleaning up after them.
You are getting into a taxi and paying the fare of the person who got out before you.
You are taking the nearly expired milk to the grocery store counter and offering to pay double for it.
He goes on in this fashion for some time.
You are paying for someone’s credit card bill full of reckless spending and partying that you never got to enjoy. …
You are trying to unclog somebody else’s clogged toilet.
Ok, now that last one didn’t even make sense.
Anyway, after running out of metaphors, LaidNYC gets to his point:
A girl who refuses to get married young is offering a raw deal. She is vastly overvaluing her product, and undervaluing your time and money.
Marriage only makes sense for a man when a girl’s prime years of beauty and fertility are upfront payment for a lifetime of loving masculine support.
LaidNYC goes on to suggest that women who are too picky when they’re young will end up regretting it later:
Is it any wonder, then, that as females are delaying marriage longer, they are finding less willing men?
Youthful arrogance is the yellow brick road to spinsterhood.
But I want to go back to that previous bit:
Marriage only makes sense for a man when a girl’s prime years of beauty and fertility are upfront payment for a lifetime of loving masculine support.
Can you imagine a more depressing way to look at marriage? If you’re so twisted by your misogyny that you can’t see value in your wife after she hits the age of 30 or so, and stick with her only out of a sense of obligation because she fucked you when she was 25, well, dude, you deserve to be miserable. And I can only hope your wife leaves you for someone who can appreciate her in the here and now.
Misogynistic assholes are at least as good at making themselves miserable as they are at making things shitty for other people.
Kevin
You’re overreacting. Here have some kitties they’ll calm you down.
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I love when this thread gets necro’d because the roly-poly cat with the milk jug always makes me smile. I haven’t seen you in months, you lil’ cutie you.
What the fuck is “mysandry?” Spell your own made-up words right.
I’m a man and nobody’s been hateful to me. In fact, the people here are far nicer than the people in many entirely male spaces are.
One, property is a plural noun, and it is incorrect to put “a” in front of it.
Two, nope. If you buy a ticket for a rock concert, that doesn’t mean that you now own the musician. If you paid for a cab or bus fare, you don’t now own the vehicle or the driver. If you paid a hospital bill, you don’t now own the doctor. Because, you see, money is typically exchanged for either goods OR services. People pay for services all the time. Services are not property.
Three, women don’t have a price tag and are neither property or a service. They’re people.
“We need to unite to just survive, otherwise we will have no future to look forward to. Why are you so hateful towards men”. ME
“I’m a man and nobody’s been hateful to me. In fact, the people here are far nicer than the people in many entirely male spaces are”. YOU
EJ, first I want to take this opportunity to publicly show my respect for You, because many already lost my respect for them by show their true colors. By using every opportunity to try to offend me, they showed how rude they are and failed to address my arguments with valid counter arguments. Some brought up my grammar and spelling, others argued believing that their feeling are valid arguments. One person put up a weird picture of some sort, but with all that they showed that they are hollow. They have nothing to back up their arguments. On the other hand, your massage was not offensive. That is good thing, because out of all, you will get my attention and I will place as much time as I possibly have to better explain my position.
Economists have a saying, “there is no free lunch”. That means that everything has a price, and when I say everything, that includes their treatment of you. Do you know whats the price? Its for you to be on their side and support them during the elections. Nobody will treat you nice, unless they had something more to gain from that relationship. Only people that really care for you are you family members, and even they are not 100% reliable, because shit can happen and sometimes it does. I advise you to have faith in your family because they are your most reliable source for assistance. You must be very careful with the false sense of security you get from nice people, because its very unreliable channel of assistance if you were to hit rock bottom. Be aware who your true friends are, otherwise it will cost you both time and money. As for male spaces not being nice, they were never meant to be. Male spaces are breeding ground for young men to learn to endure adversity. If young men were never challenged, they will never grow. No pain, no gain. Only through hardship and struggle we can realize how much power do we really have. Everything has limits and anything dangerous must only be done on advice of qualified experts of that specific field.
EJ, you have been treated with such nice treatment because you do not challenge them, and you are supportive of them politically. If you criticized the liberal ideology with any one of them, they will tear you apart. I have been slandered and accused of everything under the sun, because I have my own beliefs which does not match with theirs.
What more can I expect of incompetent generation who has been nagging ever since their conception? Unlike their previous generation they have been born into the computer era, electric car, smartphone, modern medical advancements but they still remain ungrateful.
Whats worse is that they will do anything to reduce productivity of the American business and will not stop until they destroy their own country. These people are crazy. Our economy should not be based on passing lattes back and forth (loll). We need exports and tourism, so we can have manufacturing jobs and to have those previous two we need competitive tax environment to attract corporations so our country could compete on International level. We are getting our behinds handed to us by second and third world countries at the moment thanks to the tax environment created by democrats. We are neck deep in debt, as a matter of fact we are so deep in debt, that we had to fold our space program back in 2011. Feminists rarely offer solutions, mostly make demands as if everybody else are below them in terms of social class.
Now here is the scary part. Feminists that are leading American politics have the same future as the European Union has. Can u see similarities in the way EU people began rejecting Catholicism and the way American feminists are rejecting Christianity? Can you see the similarities in immigration patterns? Do you know whats coming to both countries in few generations? Islam. Thats right, feminist are opening the road to Islam by rejecting Christianity. Feminists think Christianity is repressive? Wait till they get the taste of Islam. Unlike feminists I don’t ask you to believe me, I only ask that you independently check the religious and demographic statistics of EU and the US. Better yet, check Canada Australia UK and New Zealand while you are at it.
My friend, they have no idea, what kind of conservatism will Islam require of their grand grandchildren. They have no clue… Im not Nostradamus, but unlike feminists I have enough foresight to see the consequences of liberal ideologies spreading in America.
Islam as a religion is not bad, but Islam is also political doctrine which many people don’t know and as political doctrine it is extremely dangerous to USA. Here is why, in Islam the laws have already been selected by God, so democracy will cease to exists and Islam’s God’s laws will take effect. Quran could be the Constitution of your grand grand children.
Now ask yourself.
Do I want that?
Any comments by anyone other than EJ, will be ignored.
These are my friends. I like and respect them. Many of them are smarter than I am. I am uninterested in engaging with anyone who’s ignoring them.
If you apologise for that and climb the fuck down, then I’m willing to engage with you in turn.
I think this translates to: I think you have a penis thus are a [cis]man worthy of my time.
They go on and assume EJ is from the US and Christian. Because of course.
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<EJ Assumptions Checklist:
Has a penis: Yes
Was born with it: Yes
White: Yes
American: No
Christian: No
Dislikes Dragon Age imagemacros: No
So… fifty percent?
*sigh* I can’t even bold tag today.
The fingers-in-ears, “la-la-la, I can’t hear you” dance. Haven’t seen that one in a while. Well, it saves everyone the effort of debunking the rest of your hilariously uninformed and misjudged screed.
[Insulting further gestures to the troll.]
EJ,
1st, I was never up anywhere so I can not come down. 2nd, one thing that nobody knows about me, is that I never apologize for writing or speaking the truth. Good luck to all of you. This is my last message, and I will no longer respond to any other messages.
In fact, Jackie, our guest seems puzzled by the use of Dragon Age image macros to communicate. Would you be so good as to give him a an elegant selection of them to help him familiarise himself with their use?
Kevin:
1)Interesting, your initial post had no actual argument (please point to one) and was simply a bunch of offensive accusations with nothing to back it up. In addition you pointed out that the place you thought was an ideal place for marriage was a place that offered women very few rights. Again offering no reason why this is a good thing.
2) You actually didn’t make any “arguments” just accusations about women turning men into slaves. Please point to an actual “argument.”
3) When you are implying that you’re superior and believe women should have fewer rights (your desire to only marry in Afghanistan), you undermine your proclaimed superiority with poor grammar and spelling.
4) What was your post but accusations and “feelings”?
5) That picture wasn’t weird. it was a character from a very entertaining game. Sadly it was the character I liked the least, but eh, what can you do?
6) (See 1, 2, and 4)
7) Praising people for being inoffensive after calling an entire group of people property is kind of hypocritical, because is that but an attempt to be offensive. You also ignored Catalpa’s post about the difference between “price tags” for property and services.
*giggles like an eleven-year-old girl*
For the sake of lurkers’ reading pleasure, I’m actually going to stop being an asshole and dissect Kevin’s post above. This may take a while and may end up being twice the length of the bible. Be warned.
So feminists should back off becuse otherwise we’ll lose Christianity and thus be invaded by Islamic immigrants. And that would be bad.
But, you want to get married in Iran or Saudi Arabia.
…You know, I think your manly Apollonian logic is just too much for my delicate lady brain. Allow me to place this pancake on your head. It’s a traditional sign of respect where I come from.
Looking forward to your reply, EJ. May the Blockquote Mammoth be merciful.
It never fails. The minute a regular commenter identifies himself as a man, a troll will decide to only engage with him respectfully. Every time we have a troll this happens. It’s cute that Kevin thinks we’re all so devastated that he won’t talk to us.
Thank you, Strawman Hypothetical Of Kevin Who Has Better Manners And So Doesn’t Demand That Women Not Talk To Him (henceforth SHOKWHBMASDDTWNTTH). May I, in turn, say how nice your hair looks today. I’m not going to critique your spelling or language use here; people who aren’t entirely confident with writing skills can still have their ideas taken seriously, after all. I’m going to take issue with your ideas.
Economists have another saying: “Free trade enriches all parties.” A group in which people cooperate normally results in each person getting more benefit from the cooperation than it costs them. A good example of this may be the arrangement between myself and my former flatmate: I cooked, he did the ironing, and we hired a cleaner. I like cooking but loathe ironing; he disliked cooking but didn’t mind ironing; and both of us hated vaccuuming but could afford to pay for a cleaner. She, in turn, gets an income from this and is better off too. This is the foundation on which the capitalist system is built.
Yes, there is no such thing as a free lunch. In the case of this website, it costs me slightly more energy to think before I type, and to avoid mansplaining, and to occasionally stay the hell out of matters that I want to jump into but know nothing about. However, by taking this extra energy and time to be considerate, it makes the community a nicer place, which results in other people being nice back to me; and the amount I benefit from that niceness is larger than it costs me.
There’s no such thing as a free lunch, but there is such a thing as a really good deal.
Incidentally, I tend to vote for lefty parties anyway, because I’m a lefty. If anything, most of my female friends are less lefty than I am.
Dear SHOKWHBMASDDTWNTTH, let me give you a hug. You sound like you’ve gone through some shit and now have difficulty trusting people. My entire sympathies.
That said, I feel that the notion of a “true friend” is a misleading one. In my experience many people are very willing to be friends to a certain level of intimacy, but reject anything more intimate than that; many other people have a minimum level of intimacy required. Some of us are happy with friends that we see once a month. Others would prefer a small group of close friends.
However, the notion that all friends have to be utterly loyal and extremely willing to help you with whatever’s happening otherwise they’re not worth having at all, is one which strikes me as unhealthy. If nothing else it places an enormous potential responsibility on each of those people. A person can balk at that level of responsibility but still be someone who’s really fun to hang out with or someone who can teach you things and make you think.
If you have difficulty trusting people, then engaging at a deliberately lower intimacy level might be really refreshing. Have coffee-shop friends or board-games friends. Don’t expect anything more from them than that, and you don’t have to invite them in any closer either. The worry of betrayal becomes less when you realise that you have less to fear from it too. It’s a difficult process but, I think, a healthier one.
I’m not certain that I agree.
“No pain no gain” is a term that comes from the bodybuilding world, where it probably is true. More generally, the attitude that one must work hard to improve oneself is definitely a positive one. However, it’s not true in a wider context: many things, like the internet or the Green Revolution, made the world a massively better place without any immense hardships going alongside it.
More importantly, it’s not true the other way around. Not all pain is gain. Some pain is just pain. In particular, if I start being an asshole to people around me, it generally doesn’t make them stronger in any measurable way: it just makes them unhappy and spreads misery around, making them be assholes in turn and poisoning a social space until it makes the lives of those involved in it worse.
A lot of male spaces are, sadly, like this. My experience is that the problem is that we as men are socialised to see being an asshole as the natural right of those with high social status, and so our spaces will be filled with constant negative energy as people seek to exploit this privilege or to test whether they have it. These also tend to be the least productive spaces: the professional teams I’ve worked in where we all got on and had fun and respected one another were vastly more productive than the teams that were full of macho posturing and negative energy.
They’ve been nice to me because I’ve been nice to them. Yes. This is true. I’ve said so above, and I’m glad you agree.
As for criticising the liberal ideology: Not every behaviour is suitable for every space. If I’m at a pool and I splash someone, they’ll laugh and splash me back. If I’m at a big work meeting and we’re all in silk ties and wool suits, then splashing water on people will not get many laughs. Similarly, when you enter a space and it’s not a place where intense political discussion of a particular type is welcome, go elsewhere.
If you want to talk right-wing politics, Chris Ladd’s blog is an excellent place to do it. They’re smart people there too. If you want to talk left-wing politics, Ta-Nehisi Coates’s blog might be a good fit. On the other hand, if you’re looking to have a fight with someone of a wildly different ideology to your own, ask yourself: Does this person want to have a fight with me? If not, don’t do it.
I’m guessing that last point is why you’ve found yourself having such a hostile reception in so many places. Dear SHOKWHBMASDDTWNTTH, remember that social spaces (including online ones) are like swiss army knife parts: decide what you’re looking for, and then go there.
Dammit, blockquote mammoth! Have you no shame? Have you, at long last, no shame?
@EJ(The Other One)
The thread about “male spaces” was kinda interesting in the way it progressed.
Him: “We need to unite to just survive, otherwise we will have no future to look forward to. Why are you so hateful towards men.”
You: “I’m a man and nobody’s been hateful to me. In fact, the people here are far nicer than the people in many entirely male spaces are.”
Him: As for male spaces not being nice, they were never meant to be. Male spaces are breeding ground for young men to learn to endure adversity.
He starts out admonishing you for being mean to guys… Then suddenly proclaims guys are supposed to be mean to each other to teach them about hardships. So men are supposed to unite and not be hateful, but must be mean to teach to endure adversity?
@Tessa:
I have a certain amount of sympathy towards him for that. He doesn’t know what he wants, he just wants *not this* so hard that he’s willing to argue in favour of anything as long as it isn’t *this*. It’s a very primal expression of anguish, and one which one often experiences just before an epiphany. I’ve felt the same way in the past when beginning to break away from a harmful mindset that I’ve held: the first step is becoming aware of the pain that you’ve been denying.
Hopefully he’ll realise that what he’s reacting so strongly to isn’t women so much as internalised toxic masculinity. If he reaches that point then he can seek out sources to help him with the healing process.
I read him as saying that women are supposed to be nice, men are supposed to be assholes. He just likes toxic masculinity.