Noted pussyconomist Roosh Valizadeh offers these sobering thoughts on the rising costs — and decreasing quality — of vagina:
The quality of women—both their appearance and their attitude—is sliding to the bottom while the work we have to expend to meet these more inferior females is increasing. This phenomenon of pussy inflation is starting to force men out of the market, for what “average” man can find the time, ability, and motivation to seduce a merely cute woman who may only want to fuck him a couple times before becoming distracted by the next shiny object that gets placed in her path? If this inflations proceeds, the only men who will get laid consistently are ones who approach it like a job, blocking out a minimum of two hours a day to the task.
If anything Roosh is underestimating the dangers here. During Germany’s hyperpussyflation in the early 1920s, men had to devote as many as 3700 hours a day in order to score with merely cute women. Indeed, it is rumored that some of these men were forced to wipe their own asses in order to make themselves more appealing to women.
The reality we face right now is this: the quality of men around the world is increasing to compete with a decreasing quality of women. This is great if you’re a woman, because without lifting a finger you can get better than a couple years before. If you’re a man and didn’t step up your game recently, however, you will get lower results. If you don’t stay on top of the latest game scientific data or dating app, you will be out-competed. Or you’ll just get nothing. Inflation often helps those who have debt, but if you have no debt, if you lived life prudently and with virtue, inflation destroys your purchasing power. As much as men improve themselves, women are appreciating in relative value as they make all the wrong decisions with their lives. This is the world we live in.
To be honest, Roosh, I don’t think you and I live in the same world.
Guys who say things like this always ignore girls who are at their level of attractiveness while complaining that no girls will date them.
When he tries to hit on them women start being fascinated bytheir smart phones or he is hitting on women who are busy with their own social lives and interests and when they ignore him he thinks they’re rude.
LOL!
His plan is to get famous and wildly successful with a stable full of groupies.
That’s his plan.
His. Whole. Plan.
Good luck with that, dude.
Oh, is that the rule now – that we’re only allowed to date people on the same level of attractiveness? Thanks for letting me know.
So how do I find out my attractiveness level? Is there a central Attractiveness Rating Bureau that will provide the information? And how do I know who is on the same level? Has everyone been issued with ID cards detailing their level or something?
Damn, why am I always the last person to find out about these things? /snark
Yes, manospherians tend to take the most appalling aspects of everyday sexism and put them on steroids and rationalize pop evo psych theories around them. I get where you come from in that there’s an echo of mainstream culture in their delusions (I guess that gives them the impression that they’re ‘natural’ and not 100% fabricated).
It is reasonable to expect that both partners in a relationship are appealing to each other, and that they put similar amounts of effort in building the relationship in the form of commitment and care. But part of the problem is the language, like the implicit pretense that objectifying attributes like “value” and “quality” are objective and universal.
So instead of thinking in terms of “quality”, you can try to see your end of the relationship dues as as “being a good person”, “having interesting stuff to talk about”, “being honest”, “do nice things for each other”, etc., and expect the same from the other side.
But mostly, take care of your self esteem. Spend time with your friends, and doing things you enjoy, and not thinking about “quality” or “transactional relationships”.
That’s his attitude towards pretty much everything, isn’t it? “You won’t do what I want? Then you’re a worthless, terrible piece of shit!”
I hear the guitars are more compliant in Croatia.
There’s also a guitar thread in his forum, in which posters discuss the best ways to get laid using guitars and share pieces of advice, such as
“[Don’t play] things that are complicated and pretty. You have to play simple songs and get them to sing, then go for the one with low self esteem.”
and
“Learn it without using a pick. Chicks like watching the busy hands thing.”
For these idiots, it’s all about the tools and the forms and the surface appearance. The guitar’s just a prop. It never once occurs to them that the music itself might be seductive, that women can recognize and appreciate expert musicianship, might even (*gasp!*) be musicians themselves.
Personally, I don’t care how “busy” somebody’s hands are. You can’t fake skill and passion.
Oh, and trying to outdo each other with guaranteed “panty peeler” songs (e.g., “Hallelujah”) Because all women have the exact same taste in music, obviously.
LOL
Anyway I read the comment more like “according to you, all that matters is conventional physical appearance, so if you’ve looked yourself in the mirror you should feel grateful to be able to get a date with a ‘merely cute’ woman”
The headaches I’d get overhearing this kind of conversation! “Fingerpicking. It’s called fingerpicking.”
Well, there’s something to the snarked-at-theory.
There’s obviously no objective standard for attractiveness, and people’s tastes differ. Still, there are certain beauty norms in society, and people can be more or less close to them. There are also ideas about what makes a person “socially competent” and so on, and people can be better or worse in this area. Plus people can simply be more or less popular- have more or less friends, more or less people regularly flirting with them and so on.
And it does seem fairly common for misogynists to make comparisons between on the one hand themselves and their male buddies, on the other hand only those women who are both young, close to the societal norm for beauty, socially competent and popular. Based on this comparison they then proclaim that no woman ever have any trouble finding one-night-stands if she’s so inclined, whereas this is really difficult for men. Because no woman in that particular group happens to be sexually attracted to them or their male buddies, they claim that all women are super-picky when it comes to choosing sexual partners, and, if they identify as geeks, that no woman wants to sleep with a geek. And so on.
There’s absolutely nothing wrong with flirting with someone you’re interested in, regardless of whether you “score” differently in the above-mentioned areas, but misogynists will draw pretty strange conclusions if they simply ignore the existence of all women who score low.
Although I think this whole line of reasoning applies more to stereotypical Nice Guys ™ than to guys like Roosh, who does seem to recognize (and complain about) the existence of old and “ugly” women…
Re: guitars
I never actually learned to tune a guitar (or any other instrument) by ear… I currently use in my Spanish guitar an electronic tuner I bought for my bass.
I’m neither very good at playing nor singing, but I do enjoy it a lot and after a few years of independent practice, I can do a campfire version of a few cool songs (most of them from national rock bands).
I actually just went to check the chords for Halleluja, it seems fairly easy to play, but it takes a decent singing to not make it a train wreck…
I could stick to Kumbaya for now, I guess.
Also, I’m having fun imagining PUAs attempting to show off their guitar-game in front of people who actually like music… I bet their anti-self-awareness forcefield also shields them from ever thinking they are out of tune.
Also, tune and rythm are misandry!!
Which reminds me… I was playing and singing in my garden a few days ago, and my Compañero there was like “hey, could it be that guitar is out of tune?” and I was like “not really, but I might be out of tune….”
So gross.
That brings us back around to soap. I know a lady who makes soap with goat milk. She has goats. She makes the smelly kind and the not smelly kind. They’re nice. The soap and the goats. They’re both nice.
The goats only come in the smelly kind.
So, I’m a dude who doesn’t know much about women…
But even I know that everybody has different tastes in music.
I thought Venereal Disease and his craven lickspittles were bad; this guy is actually making me wish the Punisher were real. Not only is he out of touch with reality, utterly evil, incredibly bigoted, disgustingly filthy, and just plain nasty, he’s profoundly stupid as well.
Why the hell do people listen to shitheads like this? Everybody knows that if a woman doesn’t like you, it’s your fault! Everybody knows that you won’t be attractive to others without wiping your own fucking ass!
Seriously, this guy is sociology as Neelix (from Star Trek: Voyager, and one of the primary reasons that show sucked) is to cooking.
I know that some people are taking issue with Erika Millers comment about ‘same level of attractiveness’, but I think she has a point.
When I was young this was really obvious. I think that people in their teens and early 20s often are VERY looks orientated. Because I was overweight I was made to feel that I was a 4 at best (I am not saying that I was literally told this, but I expect many of you will know what I mean). When I lost weight my ‘value’ increased – I got A LOT more attention from men. I didn’t want it, I was a lesbian, but it was pretty fucking obvious that there is a real pecking order based on superficial appearance.
On soap making: I started making my own soap a few months ago because I wanted to find a way to use the oil from my deep fat fryer. I filter it, and a batch probably makes me about 5 – 8 litres of liquid soap that I use in my laundry, and general household cleaning. Potassium hydroxide should be used for liquid soap, and it is more time consuming than solid soap, but I save loads of money as it is re-used oil (which doesn’t smell of food once it is soap!).
Still, I’d be willing to bet there’s some hipster / heart-attack cafe aficionado market overlap for fried-food-scented soap.
I’d bring up the subject at your local too-cool-for-the-masses store. You know the kind – the one that sells vintage clothing, toasters that put the Madonna on your bread and journals with “women in prison” dime-store novel covers.
I prefer fruit scents–tangerine stuff you get from the Body Shop. And this tea tree oil body wash that smells nice. Scented soaps are one of my favorite small pleasures.
One might concede that in general, assortative mating, in the nonjudgmental sense of “like attracts like”, tends to be true – but attractiveness is in the eye of the beholder. It’s not up to bystanders to assign permanent ratings to other people. There’s a whole shifting kaleidoscope of things that go into attractiveness besides just the physical.
It gets really problematic when people start assigning superficial rankings and economic values to pairings – “Oh, he has ‘high value’, what’s he doing with that ‘low value’ partner?” That’s where you end up with the PUA mindset that ugly people are worthless, and sex only matters when it’s between 9s or 10s.
I do think it’s fair to say that men who go exclusively for conventionally attractive women, when they’re unwilling to put in even a minimum amount of effort to make themselves appealing in some way, really shouldn’t be surprised when it doesn’t work very often. Roosh’s core hypocrisy is that he thinks his own rigid rules don’t apply to himself.
Women also love that thing where you clutch the guitar neck in different ways and make noises out of your facehole at the same time.
Scented soaps are only a small leap away from scented candles, Ground, which according to the manosphere is MISANDRY! (No really, take a look at the welcome package).
On the music front, I’m a cello player and have been for 18 years. While a cello isn’t a guitar it is constantly mistaken for one whenever I go outside with it in its case, lol. But my main point is I can tell if someone is trying to bullshit their musical ability, I’m not tone deaf and not impressed by someone who is clearly only doing the bare minimum in an attempt to score. There is such a thing as No True Musician and that is what fits the bill.
Also, as has been said before, Dooshie’s guitar video is a perfect analogy of his attitude towards women. He approaches a guitar imagining that the sound will be a magical and amazing and perfect in every way, and when it’s not (because he sucks at playing) he blames the guitar and considers it worthless because there’s no way the problem is with his playing. Nope, the guitar is to blame! Tuning? Why should Roosh have to lift a finger to improve his music? Damn guitar is too uppity and entitled!
But…I like scented candles, too! Especially the lovely crisp scents and fruit flavors you can get at Yankee Candle…
Ah, brings back fond childhood memories.
On the music front, I don’t play anything, but my little brother’s a really good violist. He could go pro in a few years (and fortunately there are a LOT of jobs in viola, as opposed to the not very many in violin).
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I literally lol’ed.
Doosh: “Hey you! You’re a worthless loser. Why won’t you pay attention to me?”
Target of Doosh’s advances:
*continues being fabulous*
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@GroundPetrel I like scented candles too, but according to a commenter on The Spearhead the scented candle industry is a key cause behind male unemployment, single motherhood, increased divorces, and the general breakdown of the American family.
Good luck for your little brother and his music passion. Also, I really like your comments so far. 🙂
But that makes no sense! Scented candles cost more, in general, than unscented candles, and the scents need to be made, and there have to be jobs somewhere along that line…
How can the scented candle industry possibly be responsible for any perceived or real social ills? Or was the guy on “The Spearhead” (which already sounds like a hell-hole) who made that comment just a shithead?
Thanks! I’m flattered! 🙂
I think he’s going for pity sex. Someone should tell him that pity is not an aphrodisiac.
UGH! That’s who he reminds me of. I was trying to think of who it could be and blanking on the name. Don’t like HIM, either!
And you use picks for that, too. At least three of them, all comfortably attached at the fingertip.
But what would I know? I’m just this old lady who once had a very talented guitarist for a boyfriend.