Well yeah I\u2019ve got a heterosexual male perspective, so obvs. I\u2019m dealing with the shit it throws up from that angle
Like of the common \u201cwhy aren\u2019t I, a dork, getting the poontang I\u2019m entitled to\u201d, a lot of the \u201cmanosphere\u201d, \u201cred pill\u201d, \u201cladder theory\u201d responses were like \u201cflighty women only go for high status\u201d
And as reductive and insulting as that was it at least suggested a solution, like \u201cbecome high status\u201d \u2013 work to earn a lofty position, by leveraging your true awesomeness, and hold it, and women will authentically find it appealing; it was the slow life trajectory alternative to flash in a pan pretty boys
And it was believable because high status men - celebrities, the rich - did seem to reliably have appealing mates, more than you\u2019d expect without
But if you looked at the manosphere/redpill/etc. praxis, a lot of it - \u201cgame\u201d, \u201ckino\u201d, - was fundamentally about developing the habitus of deciding what was happening by yourself and then using charisma and social power to put over an understanding of it as proper after the fact, working often enough if you tried it on every girl you meet, letting them bear externalities
(and I kind of experienced this direct that month I took Lexapro and walked around totally disinhibited grabbing ass in bars and getting slapped a few times but also laid a lot more than I\u2019d expect)
And from the sound of the MeToo stuff this is a lot of how the \u201ccelebrity\u201d bonus actually worked for high status nebbishy men, with a lot of \u201csocial power\u201d and a regular rotation of pretty young women as the denominator
And for a while I\u2019d been like \u201cwell I\u2019m not a young stud OR a pushy manipulator, but I can work towards my dream of abundant sex with perky supplicants by being deservedly respected\u201d and seeing how much of (3) was really (2) in disguise is a disillusioning letdown, man
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