On the This is Trouble blog, the Red Pill Lothario and former Return of Kings contributor known only as Kyle has issued a dire warning to contemporary men: women will “drag you towards mediocrity” if you let them.
The worst offenders? Pancake-eating women.
I mean, let’s just say you’re a super cool dude who’s maybe three months into a relationship with some hot pre-wall broad. Obviously, Kyle notes, she’s totally into you due to “various measures: your health, your wealth, and your overall drive motivation, etc.”
That’s cool. But then she starts doing crap that interferes with your ability to have, like, the best health, wealth and drive motivation. Like, the stuff that made her into you in the first place!
Instead of “encourag[ing] you to wake up at 6am on a Saturday to hit the gym” and work your side-hustle selling juice or writing ebooks on how to get hot babes, or whatever, she JUST WANTS TO SLEEP IN.
[G]irls flat-out self sabotage the very thing they’re attracted to by trying to keep you in bed with them all day, sleeping in and just being a lazy slob in general.
Come back to bed, honey, these torpid Sirens cry.
They will literally hold you back in moving forward because women have no sense of needing to move forward, EVER.
And that’s where the pancakes come in.
Even the ones that are in shitty positions in life (no career, no skills, no goals) have this self entitlement complex that a man is going to save them – SOMEDAY. It’s why they sit around in the mornings and eat pancakes rather than get up and be productive.
The pancakes! The horror!
Now, if this thing about pancakes seems like a weirdly specific complaint about contemporary women, well, that’s because it’s really a complaint about one particular woman, that woman being Kyle’s current girlfriend, an admitted pancake eater who, on one recent occasion actually delayed his Saturday morning trip to the gym by an hour.
You see, Kyle has got important shit to do. Not like you women.
Most girls simply go home from their 9-5 hellhole and turn on the TV, killing their brain cells and souls by watching shit involving the Kardashians. The smart girls go to the gym, and spend time preparing their own meals to better themselves in that sense. However, I’ve yet to meet a girl who does the gym, meal prep, and everything else I do on a day-to-day basis to keep moving forward on the self improvement and freedom path.
Preach it, brother!
That usually involves the 9-5 gig, a minimum of 2-3 hours a work on side work (10+ a day on weekends), an hour workout, and I still make time for friends, dates, etc. The trick is that I know how to get by on little sleep, I minimize my commute and I don’t waste any time.
Most women just cannot handle what I do on a day-to-day basis.
Hell, just hearing about all this makes me tired. No, not tired. What’s that other word that’s sort of like tired? Bored.
So anyway, Kyle was just going along living his impeccable life. And then came The Morning of the Pancakes.
Kyle recounts this terrible ordeal in graphic detail.
He and his girlfriend of one month are lying in bed on a Saturday afternoon.
I had wanted to go the gym at roughly 8am, and she said she wanted to join me. So of course we didn’t get there until about 9am.
I believe this is a violation of the Geneva Conventions. It should be, anyway.
At the gym, as I worked through a brutal superset workout…what did she do?
Walked on the treadmill.
Damn treadmill-walking lazy-ass woman!
Oh, and she did two whole sets of planks with me at the end.
Correction: Damn treadmill-walking, two-plank-set-doing lazy-ass woman!
Brace yourself, dear reader, because it gets worse.
After we got back from the gym, she really wanted to go and get pancakes.
NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!1!!
And steak and eggs sounded like a good post-workout meal to me. I relented and went, and in Los Angeles, $30 is about the minimum you can spend on any meal for two.
Somehow I’m guessing that Kyle here is not much of a tipper.
Finally, another hour and a half and $32.67 later, we were full and headed home.
Yeah, he’s definitely not a good tipper. I mean, given that he’s holding onto his resentment that the meal for two cost $2.67 more than the arbitrary amount he expected the meal to cost.
But she didn’t have work until 2pm – so of course she dicked around my apartment (of course, didn’t make herself useful and clean up my apartment or anything) until 1:15pm…and ended up being late to work anyway.
By the time she was gone and I settled into a working groove, it was 2pm and half the day was gone.
A moment of silence, please, for the half of Kyle’s Saturday so cruelly murdered by his girlfriend.
Rest in Peace, Half of Kyle’s Saturday. Rest in Peace.
Good thing I’m a french toast man.
Maybe Kyle wouldn’t be so bitter about pancakes and his girlfriend not cleaning up after him even though it’s his apartment and they don’t live together if he got a little more sleep.
Most women I know are either in the following categories: Working and finishing school for a degree, two jobs, or one job and being a mom. These women have hardly any spare time. I think the only people watching the Kardashians are the Kardashians and maybe a few teenagers.
He wastes no time, he says, but he finds the time to complain at great legnth about his girlfriend online. How long do you reckon that relationship will last?
For guys who complain about not getting sex, this sounds like a major win to me.
She sounds pretty cool. Maybe Kyle just doesn’t deserve a partner that chill.
I see pancakes are misandry now.
It’s not just women, though. Remember Jack Johnson’s siren song “Banana Pancakes”?
Mmmm. Delicious, delicious pancakes…
But seriously, if you got stuff to do, excuse yourself and go do it. Going along with the other person and then turning right around and bitching about it is annoyingly passive-agressive.
Also, your apartment, clean it your own damn self*. If she doesn’t live with you, she’s got her own place to clean. And I bet this guy’s super important lifestyle wouldn’t include lifting a finger at her place!
*of course, people should clean up after themselves when appropriate, wherever they are, but more than that is strictly optional!
He made time for his girlfriend, just like he makes time for his friends. The only difference is, he seems to resent his girlfriend for it. Leaving the obvious double standard aside, perhaps it’s because he wants his “making time for social interactions” to be on his terms. He’s obviously judging his girlfriend’s workout … not that I believe all this gym-going actually happened.
Also, I wonder what he does with his side work on weekends. Horrible AVFM memes, probably.
Dude needs to take a nap, he’s grumpy.
Also, I think I’ll make some pancakes later. Misandry pancakes.
This guy’s life sounds so sad. I mean, he literally gets by on less sleep just to add in work outs and crap like that. That is a man who has an utterly joyless life.
Ugh, how dare people have leisure time.
I feel deprived now; over here were only allowed pancakes on pancake day. Trying to get my head round the idea of eating them for breakfast!
I notice that his “self improvement” path doesn’t include anything involving books, culture, education, or helping others.
Freedom to compulsively keep to his regimented life in order to stay on the freedom path! To freedom!
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I agree. It sounds like his girlfriend wanted to spend time with him (oh, the horror!). Rather than acting like an adult and telling her he had things to do, he went along with it and now resents her for disrupting his usual schedule.
I like waffles. As long as I’m not into pancakes, the devil’s breakfast food, I should be ok. I’d worry about the waffles preference possibly making me an acceptable woman in the eyes of these redpillians, but I’m over 30, so I could freely enjoy a meal of both waffles *and* pancakes without them hassling me for it. Plus I’d have twice the leftovers to eat later!
I’m shedding non-existent tears for Kyle, poor dude being late a whole HOUR for the gym, who should be thankful to have a girlfriend at all with his attitude. I do feel bad for his girlfriend, hopefully she will see that her boyfriend is a redpillian douchelord and dump his ass at the curb on trash day.
I am terribly confused by the idea of bettering one’s life by getting inadequate sleep and having zero free time.
Sleep is foundational to pretty much any part of your life – physical, mental, emotional, social, aesthetic, what have you. I can’t think of any problems relating to any of those things that can’t benefit from getting sufficient sleep.
And it’s always best to have the time and opportunity to do new things or you’re limiting yourself (or being limited by circumstances). Deliberately choosing not to have those opportunities seems sad.
So it seems like he’s just admitted to hamstringing his entire well-being as though it’s a badge of pride and also the only possible path to success.
I can easily believe he dates women who watch the Kardashians. People tend to seek partners who share their own values, and this dude’s shallow as a frying pan.
Frying pan…pancakes…mmm, time for lunch.
@SFHC: Was that from The Ring? I think that might have been The Ring.
His “freedom path” sounds like locking himself in the same routine day after day after day after day.
Which doesn’t sound like “freedom” to me. I mean, I can understand why some people like that kind of thing (structure, stability, ect.), but I’d get deathly bored of it real quick. I need structure in my life too, but I also like a little leeway for, y’know, sleeping in and pancakes.
Life shouldn’t only be about the “structure” or working out or working on your “hustle” until you drop dead from stress (Thanks, Capitalism, for ingraining that bullshit in our society), it should also have time for the little things. Like pancakes. Because, for lack of a better term, YOLO. Kyle’s going to look back on his life years from now and just wonder why he didn’t have pancakes when he had the chance, and will wonder what could have been…
I also wonder if he’s told his girlfriend (who may or may not live in Canada, *winkwink*) any of this, or if he’s just blustering online and expecting her just to “get it” and start doing what he wants because he glared at her in a certain way this morning for showing up late to the gym and not lifting with him.
Funny how “self-improvement” and being a self-centered pedantic dick sound like exactly the same thing.
My thoughts.
I’ve got some really bad news for this asshole.
So who is the one really sabotaging his health? None other than the ‘noz himself.
I didn’t even think about her living in mystical Canada, where most of these guys’ girlfriends reside.
Seriously tho, I don’t get why people who resent women would want to hang out with them. And what’s wrong with the treadmill? Does he not do cardio?