So one public-spirited gentleman who calls himself retturd has a question for the alpha dudes of the Ask The Red Pill subreddit: Is volunteering seen as blue pill? Retturd assures the assembled color-of-pill experts that “I love volunteering and helping people in general.” He just worries that being so helpful might be seen as terribly beta.
The regulars assure him that volunteering is perfectly fine for alphas. As long as they’re careful about just who they are helping. Helping old dudes and learning from their old-school alpha ways? Perfect. Helping poor people? Not so much:
Also, helping kittens is right out, unless you’re Elon Musk. Or at the very least a sharp-dressed swole dude.
DO YOU EVEN LIFT KITTENS, BRO?
He can be a huge asshole, but Bill Burr has a great bit about toxic masculinity (though he never calls it that by name):
“Guys die because every time they’re about to do something that might help them or be good for them there’s a chorus of their friends in the back of their mind going, ‘What are you, a fag? Oh look, he’s got an umbrella just cause it’s raining! Put your collar up!”
It’s hilariously spot on.
Also, lol at how real fucking Alphas have to constantly worry what people think of them. Incessant self censorship and living a lie while constantly worrying what other people think is so fucking rugged!
I feel kind of bad for the dude in the OP. It’s sad to want to be kind and altruistic, but also feel like it besmirches your manly character to indulge those urges. Like kellyrtillson said above, I hope he finds his way out of r/TheRedPill in a timely manner so that he can move on to better things and better friends.
I’m with you, fruitloopsie! He loves kittens! If you’re nice, maybe he’ll let you pet one!
These TeRPers are missing a trick here. Kittens are where it’s at. Though that’s probably all for the better, because this way they’re not inflicting their foul selves on poor, defenseless animals.
Seriously, it must take these guys twenty minutes and a post on Reddit just to decide what to have for lunch. “DAE think turkey sandwiches are beta food?”
Turkeys are totes beta mangina food, unless it’s a wild turkey you personally trapped and killed and smoked.
Do not feed turkey to your bettas.
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TeRPer’s wish they could be that alpha. Look at those fins! Bettas invented peacocking.
It’s amazing that they don’t consider Musks (Tesla right?) SMV to be high as a result of his generosity rather then in spite of it.
Why do I need to learn a bunch of new acronyms to talk about these toolboxes? I stumbled across married man sex life today and was utterly confused. It seems they are all experts on picture frames.
“I don’t help poor people because I don’t see them changing.”
How would you see them change if you didn’t help them?!!
Or are you someone like Ken Ham who misunderstands evolution to the point he proposes crocoduck? You expect them to receive charity and immediately become a different person.
“Why thank you for preparing me a ham sandwich.” person’s clothes change and he immediately just has a job.
Good lord, it’s like this picture I saw on tumblr the other day:
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“The poor”.
Who is that exactly? This guy seems to think its only people in soup kitchens scamming free food because they’re too lazy or high to change their lives. There are more and more people everywhere living week to week for all kinds of reasons that have nothing to do with anything but bad luck or bad health. As a visiting nurse, I saw older folks who had to choose between meds and food all the time. We had one gentleman who lived in a junked RV on the edge of the dump, bless him.
I worked as a nurse for 35 years and for years before I got my degree but finally had to give in to disabilities of depression and fibromyalgia after many years of resisting. I wish I could work but I have lost my mojo. My disability is more than some folks get because of my work but it is gone a week before the next deposit comes. I never, ever expected to be in this situation just like so many people but it is my reality.
This attitude that you don’t help anyone unless it benefits you just chaps me. Would I be different from the people in the soup kitchen or no, just another loser who can’t increase this troglodyte’s value? I have worked for and volunteered for nonprofits most of my career, most recently 10 years in hospice. I know what it means to give because you can, because you want to and because another person benefits from your help. I miss it more than I can say, but I also know I’m richer than that asshole will ever be.
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
@Paradoxical
Wat.
W-what do those people do, then? Do they sit around, staring at the walls on rainy days they can’t sport?
“I want to help people, but only if people will still consider me superior to other men” is probably the most desperate, least attractive sentiment I can imagine.
I have written a short list of acceptable female hobbies. Please adjust your lives immediately to meet this new standard, which is as follows:
– Working out in dude-approved ways (nothing too girly, and nothing that takes up too much catering to your man time)
– Hiking while wearing makeup (look at you, being cool and breezy and not “high maintenance” like those other girls! Except you definitely want to look pretty while you’re doing that, otherwise gross)
– Being silent
– Losing video games to men
@ Paradoxical Intention | June 9, 2015 at 7:12 pm
I am laughing at that pic so hard, I’m crying. Number 1, using computers. Hahahaha, I’m in IT and just got Network + certified, I’m such a boner shrinker! Just ask my fiance 😉
If he doesn’t want to help poor people “because I don’t see many of them changing”, then how does he justify helping old people? They’re even less likely to change!
Other than that, I see that the definition of “White Knight” has expanded again. I remember that it used to mean something like, “Trying to help people in an ineffective way”, and then it changed to “Helping people who in my opinion don’t deserve to be helped”. Now it’s apparently just a synonym for “Helping others”.
What kind of feminist misandrist malarkey is this? I was raised to be a proper woman, which means that my only video-game hobby is watching and cheering while the menfolks play. Oh, and I occasionally run to the kitchen for snacks.
I’m reminded of the Captain Awkward post about “I love my volunteers (just not the racist ones)”. I’m not all that disappointed that guys like them don’t want to volunteer for my rescue. As much as we need volunteers for the kittens (and puppies!) we don’t need the hassle of dealing with assholes. We’re good, thanks. You go be alpha. Over there.
I have no idea why I put a dash between “video” and “game.” I’m already way too fond of commas. I hope that I don’t start overusing dashes next.
Unacceptable female hobbies (according to TRPers):
– Helping others
– Being fat
– Being “poor”
– Having your own job/income
– Making personal choices that men don’t approve of
– Doing things for yourself unless you’re a man (then it’s Alpha as fuck)
– Wearing articles of clothing that men don’t pre-approve of
– Saying no to sex when men ask for it
– Saying yes to sex when men ask for it
– Disagreeing with the Red Pill doctrine
– Wearing makeup (faker!)
– Not wearing makeup (Ugly!)
– Existing without men’s expressed permission
– Breathing without men’s expressed permission
And many more! Collect all N^34533234455 excuses to be a raging misogynist today!
Oooh, I got so many misandry points a few weekends ago. I was playing video games on my fiance’s Playstation3 while he watched and cheered me on, and every now and then he’d get up to go do something and ask me “Can I get you anything while I’m up? Need another beer?”
MISANDRY!!!!!!!1!!!!111111111
I think I just leveled up my skills in Social Justice Assassin. I’ll alert the high council.
Viscaria, you forgot about needlepoint.
@PI @pandapool – Maybe…baking…?
Is baking ok?
Cooking probably isn’t (because ERRYONE knows that all of the best chefs are men).
…at a loss for much else.
So many of the stereotypically überfeminine activities are too easily shoved into vanity (nails, make-up), frumpy (knitting, sewing), or TAKIN ALL TEH MENZ MUNNAH (shopping) slots to be acceptable to MRAs.
Women can’t be traditionally feminine because then they’re vain leeches .
Women can’t break away from traditional femininity because then they’re unspeakably mannish.
We’re left to sit in rooms, staring at the walls, living off of air and light mist.
You know what’s totally alpha? Diving headfirst into an empty pool.
Miss Andry is right, that is the most alpha thing ever.
Miss Andry
You know what’s even more Alpha? Setting yourself on fire then dive headfirst into an empty pool.
What if I use my sewing, cross-stitch and jewellery-making skills to make Portal t-shirts, Star Wars samplers and Pokemon necklaces (which I actually do)? Double misandry points or do they cancel eachother out?