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Monday, April 29, 2013
The Fokken Twins: Two Women I Love
The other night I watched a documentary on Netstream about Louise and Martine Fokken. I was afraid a documentary about geriatric sex workers might be depressing, but in fact I found it very uplifting. I defy anyone with half a heart not to fall in love with these old Dutch bawds.
So what's to love about a pair of 69 year old prostitutes?
In a word: Love itself. The love they have for each other, the love they have for their children and for their spoiled-rotten-Chihuahua, and, most inspiring, the love they have for their clients (that is, "the kind gentlemen," not "the punters"). Their love for color, fashion, food, nature, and painting. Their Love for Life Itself.
How do such generous spirits survive, nay flourish, after fifty years in the Red Light District of Amsterdam? I'm in awe...
Saturday, April 27, 2013
Everybody's bloggin'
Everybody's bloggin'. Everybody in the manosphere, that is. There are hundreds of them. There are PUA blogs. There are anti-PUA blogs. There are MGTOW blogs. There are MRA blogs. There are female anti-feminist blogs. There are manosphere blogs about other manosphere blogs. And there are manosphere blogs devoted to giving other manosphere bloggers advice, like The Private Man.
What do they all have in common? Well, as Zosimus the Heathen pointed out in his last comment: everything. Remember the theme song of the old Patty Duke show? "They look alike, they talk alike, they even dress and walk alike." (Thanks a lot, Zosimus, now I'm going to be hearing that in my head all day!)
One of the memes of the manosphere is the "hive mind" of women, but Jezebel and Feministe ain't got nothing on these guys. They stay united by constantly commenting or repeating each other's comments. They band together at the virtual feet of their gurus, few of whom tolerate dissent within the ranks. Roosh is notorious for blocking the IPOs of commenters who fail to demonstrate the appropriate degree of fealty, while Paul Elam prefers to publicly eviscerate potential rivals to his throne. These tiny beleaguered sects cannot withstand much tension or challenge to authority before they splinter and fragment. And thus are born ever more blogs. Yet they're all pretty much singing the same tune, which goes something like this.
A preoccupation of many manosphere bloggers is figuring out how to spin straw into gold support their "masculine lifestyles" with blogging. (Cuz what's more manly than spending your days in your tighty-whities in front of a computer, kvetching endlessly about women?) In fact, Matt Forney is right now promoting on his blog his new self-published e-book about how to make money blogging and self-publishing e-books (even though he hasn't made any money yet and his stats aren't much higher than mine LOL).
Manosphere bloggers unite in their admiration of Roosh's ability to travel the world on the money he makes with his "Bang" guides. I'll admit I am myself rather curious how much income his blogging and self-publishing generate. Obviously, it's extremely variable. I've read blogs with high traffic can generate as much as $1000/month. Suffice to say he's no Stephen King, and, as his videos demonstrate, he lives frugally: in simple sublets overseas, in his father's basement stateside, schlepping his own panini-maker wherever he goes, and proudly refusing to buy drinks for the ladies (it's a matter of principle, doncha know).
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"And trust me it's not dope to be 25 and move back to your parents' basement" http://ow.ly/kuye4 Tell me about it
Manosphere blogging as a career choice is problematic on so many levels. One's potential readership is limited right out of the gate. (Of course, the manosphereans maintain this is just a matter of converting a critical mass of American youth.) As Delicious Tacos points out, he hasn't bothered to commercialize his blog because the potential profit doesn't justify the effort. And don't only manosphere readers buy manosphere e-books? And most of what is in their e-books is on their blogs anyway. Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?
Which reminds me of my mom's comment many years ago, when the shale oil boom collapsed, that the entire economy of Grand Junction, Colorado was being kept afloat by neighbors buying each other's stuff at garage sales.
Manosphere Blogging 101 – 21 Pieces Of Advice
There are many new, self-identified Manosphere bloggers cropping up ( some links below). I’m enthused by this. For all the new guys, I have some advice. I never thought that I’d be in the position to offer Manosphere blogging advice but after being at this for almost two years and with almost a million page views, I’ve learned a thing or two:1. Blogging requires patience and perseverance. Blogging for a couple of months and being disappointed is normal. A few hundred (if you’re fortunate) page views a day is to be expected until readers realize the seriousness of the blog. There are few, if any, home runs with blogging. Writers should only expect singles and doubles as page view counts grow.
2. Writing is work. For those not accustomed to writing often, it’s a serious chore. Not only must a man live his life, he has to be introspective and be willing to write about it. It’s not easy. You have been warned. Writing is work.
3. Manosphere writers, for now, are but humble pamphleteers (link below) and not real movers and shakers when it comes to shifting public opinion. The good news is that pamphleteers have an historic precedent of shifting public opinion. It just takes time and a critical mass of readership.
4. Commenters are the life blood of good blogs. A good blogger acknowledges and supports good comments. It doesn’t have to be often but it’s important that it’s done.
5. Haters gonna hate. Got hate comments? Nuke ‘em and ban ‘em. It’s your blog. It’s your real estate. If haters want to shit on your blog, moderate heavily and use the banhammer relentlessly. Don’t engage trolls… ever.
6. Spammers gonna spam. It’s vital that you check your spam inbox for legitimate comments because sometimes good comments get spammed out. Don’t let the spam folder get too full.
7. In the beginning, post often. These means three posts a week, at a minimum. When your blog gets some traction, you can cut back a bit, but not too much.
8. Brevity is the soul of wit. Posts needn’t be long. Rollo and Ian (links below) are the huge exception as their posts are usually quite long. You can’t be the exception to the rule until you’re well established. Three hundred words or so (well-written and concise) will do.
9. Comment on other blogs with meaningful comments that add to the original point(s). Dropping a brief comment just to generate traffic to your blog won’t do you any favors in the long run. Read the post. If you don’t have anything to offer, don’t comment.
10. Link to other blogs via your blogroll or your comments on your post. The other Manosphere bloggers will appreciate the links and be more willing to the link back to you.
11. Try to meet Manosphere bloggers and readers in real life. The Internet is not real life. Shaking a fellow man’s hand is real life. For example, I’ve got a live event coming up in March, 2013 (link below).
12. Find your niche. This will take time and your commenters will steer you in the right (write?) direction. As the Manosphere stands now, there are almost too many young men writing. For you young guys, consider focusing on a geographical or lifestyle niche on which to focus your concentration. Or, go personal as Danny (link below) has done.
13. Don’t give up. Patience and perseverance, remember?
14. Be willing to be a contributing author to group Manosphere blogs (links below). This will build your credibility and drive traffic to your blog. If you find yourself only able to post irregularly on your own blog, be willing to give that up and only be a contributing author to group blogs.
15. Be patient. Keep at it.
16. Post on forums with a link to your blog in your signature. There are loads of male-oriented forums that are not relationship of socially-focused oriented. Find the “other” category in gun, motorsports, sports, and male-oriented forums where men often go. Build a reputation there. Be taken seriously… then send them to your blog or other Manosphere blogs.
17. You want to monetize your blog? That’s a whole new level requiring far more time and effort. Don’t be half-assed about it. Go big or go home.
18. Respect your blogging elders. Rollo, Roissy, and Roosh are the starting points (links below) but there are many other Manosphere bloggers worth your attention and input. Check out my blogroll for a starting point. I don’t have them all.
19. Read the Red Pill women’s blogs (some links below). These dames are smart and worthy of serious consideration. They are also signs that life isn’t too bleak for the Red Pill man.
20. Don’t post hateful comments on blue pill blogs and forums. Once branded a hater, you lose credibility and that helps to lose credibility for the general Manosphere.
21. Men’s Rights Activists (MRAs) are part of the Manosphere. So is the Men Going Their Own Way (MGTOW) crowd. That statement will get me some hate and I say tough shit.
Good luck, gentlemen. We’re doing something big here. Spread this advice.
Friday, April 26, 2013
Don't Waste Time On Stupid Shit!
Over at the virtual tree house that is Thumotic, yet another online haven for "traditional masculinity," "community for men with a fighting spirit," readers can sign an oath to join the club. However, prospective members are cautioned that signing said oath is not to be undertaken lightly; oath-takers are making a real commitment in front of God and everybody.
Then they are instructed to post their signed oaths on their frig, bathroom mirror, whatever.
I wondered if I had the grit, the inner fortitude, the sense of commitment, to sign such an oath myself. I took a deep breath and forged ahead.
* * *
The Thumotic Oath
I, Cinzia La Strega, hereby swear the following:
I will train my body. I will grow stronger,
faster, and more agile. I will build my physique, and show the world
how much respect I have for myself.
YES! I'll have you know that I have just signed up for "Six Weeks To A Healthier You." I mainly registered to get the discounted gym membership. Well, I mainly registered cuz my BFF Becky nagged me into it, pointing out that we can always fit in a quick happy hour after the sessions. And now I am totally psyched!
I will fuel my body. The majority of my diet will consist of vegetables, fruits, and clean meats.
YES! Except I have no idea what "clean" vs. "dirty" meats are. But I can certainly promise to abstain from all food that I know to be contaminated, i.e., no more lunches at the Chinese buffet after 2 pm. Glad you guys carefully qualified this to read "the majority of my diet" cuz I gotta have a little wiggle room for chocolate. BTW, does red wine count as a "fruit?"
I will control my vices. Alcohol, tobacco, and drugs will be my servants; they will not make a servant out of me.
Of course alcohol and tobacco are my servants. It's just that ever since they unionized, their demands have been escalating.
I will treat what friends and family I admit to my inner circle with honesty, generosity and respect.
YES! And just so you know, my "inner circle" isn't all that exclusive, especially when it comes to sharing the core values of humanity.
I will unapologetically pursue the women and relationships that I desire.
Uh-oh, my girlfriend may have something to say about that!
I will not waste money and resources on stupid shit.
How do you define "stupid" in this context? Is nail art stupid shit? Just kidding, I know very well it is.
I will not waste time and attention on stupid shit.
OK, OK, I'll quit watching "Hoarders." And pretty much everything else on the Discovery Channel. And also that cute gay couple who seem to be on the Livewell Network 24/7.
I will remain calm, unemotional and nonreactive to the world around me.
Hey, now wait a minute, that doesn't sound like any way to Win Friends and Influence People!
I will dedicate my life to the constant improvement of my body, mind and spirit.
I will set an example, and so lead the men around me out of the darkness.
If you insist -- but I'm warning you that's a classic case of "the Blind leading the Blind."
I will help build a world in which traditional masculine virtue is celebrated, not disparaged.
If traditional masculine virtue includes a working knowledge of power tools and a willingness to remove small dead animals from my yard, I do so celebrate it.
If traditional masculine virtue includes a working knowledge of power tools and a willingness to remove small dead animals from my yard, I do so celebrate it.
I, Cinzia La Strega, swear all of this on my honor as a man person on April 26, 2013.
Wow! I haven't signed an "oath" since I was a Girl Scout. Now excuse me while I print it out and tape it to my refrigerator door...
Roosh in Romania
Family resemblance? Probably not. In Count Vlad's day, Turkish visitors to Romania were customarily impaled.
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Roosh is a Whiner
I just read Roosh's latest, "If I Was Born An American Girl." I won't reproduce it here. Jezebel readers were shredding it the other day, much to his delight. He loves to play the naughty boy, get all the girls riled up, then wank about it on Twitter.
But even a riled up girl like me is getting pretty bored with being outraged over Roosh.
Anyway, the theme of this "essay" is how damn easy Roosh's life would have been if he had only been born a woman. It's one of those New Misogynists' heavy, ham-headed attempts to be satirical. (I have come to the sad conclusion that The New Misogynists, with the exception of Delicious Tacos, are tone deaf to humor and nuance.)
Roosh's piece takes the form of a very long and very arbitrary list. (Roosh loves compiling lists, graphs, tables, and pie charts -- so scientifical!) Although not in any apparent order of importance, Roosh methodically numbers the privileges that young American women enjoy compared to their male peers. Allegedly.
Note that most of this privilege is attributed to women's sexual power over men. Obviously, he is only thinking about the tiny fraction of American women whom he considers sexually attractive. The rest of us ugly fatties, who make on average $6000/year less than everyone else, well, we belong in forced labor camps anyway.
So basically, if Roosh had been born a conventionally beautiful young woman, he wouldn't have had to study for his organic chemistry exams; he could have aced the course by simply fucking his instructor. This fantasy is such a standard of "school girl" porno and B movies, where Roosh and his fans get most of their sex education, that naturally Roosh serves it forth as irrefutable "evidence." Hey, a cliche wouldn't be a cliche if it weren't a fact, right? And resentful boners are the best!
As a college student, I never had to choose between either failing a class or exchanging sexual favors with an instructor, but had the dilemma presented itself, in most cases, I believe I would have opted to withdraw. (Mainly because, although I used to be kind of a slut, I've always been a really lazy slut, and as any sex worker can attest, it's called sex "work" for a reason.)
Please don't assume that the fact that my undergraduate transcripts are riddled with "Ws" is because I turned down the option of blowing my profs on a regular basis. Honest, it never came up for negotiation (no pun intended).
OK, full disclosure: Once a film history instructor asked me to give him a massage in his office. Although I had no reason to believe that my grade hinged on fulfilling this rather surprising request, I dropped the class immediately out of sheer embarrassment. And because I had no idea how to give anyone a massage.
Ah, the good ole days, before anyone had ever heard of "sexual harassment!"
God, Roosh is boring. And whiny? Jesu Maria! What a tiresome child he must have been, the kind of kid who would complain for hours because his sister got the red popsicle, while he had to settle for the blue one, and who would keep repeating his grievance in a tedious, unrelenting whine, until his mother longed to toss both child and popsicle onto the shoulder of the road from a moving vehicle (and then back up, a la Dzhokhar Tsarnaev).
The fact that Roosh's mother did not succumb to the temptation represents an amazing feat of maternal self-restraint for which -- unsurprisingly -- Roosh is not in the least bit grateful.
Oh, and as long as we're talking about frozen treats here, let me share this treat of a one minute video "I'm A Nice Guy" by Scott Benson.
But even a riled up girl like me is getting pretty bored with being outraged over Roosh.
Anyway, the theme of this "essay" is how damn easy Roosh's life would have been if he had only been born a woman. It's one of those New Misogynists' heavy, ham-headed attempts to be satirical. (I have come to the sad conclusion that The New Misogynists, with the exception of Delicious Tacos, are tone deaf to humor and nuance.)
Roosh's piece takes the form of a very long and very arbitrary list. (Roosh loves compiling lists, graphs, tables, and pie charts -- so scientifical!) Although not in any apparent order of importance, Roosh methodically numbers the privileges that young American women enjoy compared to their male peers. Allegedly.
Note that most of this privilege is attributed to women's sexual power over men. Obviously, he is only thinking about the tiny fraction of American women whom he considers sexually attractive. The rest of us ugly fatties, who make on average $6000/year less than everyone else, well, we belong in forced labor camps anyway.
So basically, if Roosh had been born a conventionally beautiful young woman, he wouldn't have had to study for his organic chemistry exams; he could have aced the course by simply fucking his instructor. This fantasy is such a standard of "school girl" porno and B movies, where Roosh and his fans get most of their sex education, that naturally Roosh serves it forth as irrefutable "evidence." Hey, a cliche wouldn't be a cliche if it weren't a fact, right? And resentful boners are the best!
As a college student, I never had to choose between either failing a class or exchanging sexual favors with an instructor, but had the dilemma presented itself, in most cases, I believe I would have opted to withdraw. (Mainly because, although I used to be kind of a slut, I've always been a really lazy slut, and as any sex worker can attest, it's called sex "work" for a reason.)
Please don't assume that the fact that my undergraduate transcripts are riddled with "Ws" is because I turned down the option of blowing my profs on a regular basis. Honest, it never came up for negotiation (no pun intended).
OK, full disclosure: Once a film history instructor asked me to give him a massage in his office. Although I had no reason to believe that my grade hinged on fulfilling this rather surprising request, I dropped the class immediately out of sheer embarrassment. And because I had no idea how to give anyone a massage.
Ah, the good ole days, before anyone had ever heard of "sexual harassment!"
God, Roosh is boring. And whiny? Jesu Maria! What a tiresome child he must have been, the kind of kid who would complain for hours because his sister got the red popsicle, while he had to settle for the blue one, and who would keep repeating his grievance in a tedious, unrelenting whine, until his mother longed to toss both child and popsicle onto the shoulder of the road from a moving vehicle (and then back up, a la Dzhokhar Tsarnaev).
The fact that Roosh's mother did not succumb to the temptation represents an amazing feat of maternal self-restraint for which -- unsurprisingly -- Roosh is not in the least bit grateful.
Oh, and as long as we're talking about frozen treats here, let me share this treat of a one minute video "I'm A Nice Guy" by Scott Benson.
Monday, April 22, 2013
MGTOW Mark "Minty" Minter Slides Off His Barstool
Poor Mark Minter! He bumped up on Manbooz last night, where he was roundly razzed, and then apparently had a few more shots before churning out this strange missive to his guru, Roosh. Is it too much cheap tequila? Or has he truly lost his mind? The comments that follow are equally bizarre... Yet there is a strange poetic beauty in all this incoherence. Kinda like reading The Last Words of Dutch Schultz, y'know? Although hardly a ringing endorsement of the expat MGTOW lifestyle...
(Note: Go to manboobz to read David Futrelle's analysis and some really funny commentary.)
Mark Minter • a day ago Ah,
but when you are there, this American life is a million miles away,
and far, far from your thoughts. When you are there and on the
streets, those unfamiliar streets in that strange world and culture,
you live more in 5 minutes than you do here in one day. It starts at
the jetway when you arrive, it builds when you see the foreign
immigrations officers and it smacks you in the face when you step
outside the front door or the airport. All airports are the same,
little pieces of America, no matter where you are in the world. But
that ends at the front door.And when you go alone, when you have very little to anchor you,
when you get into that taxi and ride through the city, when you end up
in some strange room, and you drop your luggage, and then in the
following days as you find your way, find yourself, then all you were,
and all that was, is so so far away. And it can ruin you forever. I have been back 3 years and I do not
seek to engage America in any way. I stay home, on the internet. I
shop in the middle of the night for food. When I must be out in the
day, I move quickly, efficiently. I interact little with this society
that I am no longer a part of. Some of that is age but a lot of is
that I have killed my American self and I feel no affection for it, no
loyalty to it, and I shall discard it forever, soon. The only connection is feel to it is you, you band of renegade rebels to whom I feel a kindred spirit.Listen closely to expats. Perhaps it is a self limiting situation. I
would assume no lover of America, no person that celebrates it as a
place, is an expat. So on one hand, they are a group disposed to
dissent. They may have issues over the laws, the bureaucracy of the
new place they now live, but rarely do they ever ever long for America.
(Note: Go to manboobz to read David Futrelle's analysis and some really funny commentary.)
- Despite the claims of feminists, America is the Matriarchy, the land owned and dominated by women and their mangina menservants, their guards, their infrastructure that so caters to them, their laws.You see it when upon landing in America. In other places, immigration is almost a "lip service", a gang of sorts to get money from you when you arrive and when you leave. The security you must pass, when entering. is almost a joke compared to what you encounter when you arrive in America. And it is far greater when you leave, those airlines and airport security forces have a procedure that is not so much that the idea of the country you are leaving, but rather the dictates of America, and its women.And here you are not a man, but a functionary, a manservant, a slave to women. You see it when you arrive, you feel it, you know it, that stripping of your masculine dignity that begins the moment you leave the plane and enter an American terminal, that herding, that loss of the you that is you. And you see it as you come out on these clean, lit streets, this great giant boring shopping mall, all designed for women, all policed for women, all at the behest of women and those manginas that have bought in, that know no different, that do not understand what they are, what they do, and what they have done. So, yes, you leave because you have the idea that something here is wrong, some other place must be better, NAPALT, Not All Places Are Like This. Perhaps, if you are only gone for a short while, you won't quite be a able to put your finger on what the difference is, just that it is different. But when you spend a good deal of time away, you know there is a difference, and if you must come back, then you yearn not to be here.
It is not the adventure of the place or the exotic. What you miss is the experience of being a man in a way that this society will never allow. It is too late for here. It is more than merely cultural, more than social, it is even biological. This matriarchy has dominated even nature here, controlled every last aspect, even the dirt, even the germs, all of the animals, and certainly, all of the men. If you stay, you will remain in angst, a slave to women. When I close my eyes the image I see is elsewhere. And when I die, the fact I got to live elsewhere for a time, will dwarf what I feel about here. It is the basis of my rants about marriage and this American life as a married man being insipid, stupid, and a waste of the life of man. Because it ties you to here, it chains you, it removes your option, your hope, that you might leave, and seals your fate as a slave.
Roosh: Coming Soon to a Second Tier City Near You
I note that I have a few readers from other countries, most notably Romania and Russia. Perhaps some of you are Roosh fans; perhaps, some of you not so much. Roosh posted the following a couple of years ago, when he was getting a lot of flack from writing about his exploits in various Latin American countries. Roosh's words are in bold; my annotations are italicized.
9 Things I Want To Say To My International Critics
By Roosh
I have nine things I would like to say to all those who are angry about my travel writing:
Stop right there, did you say "travel" writing? You mean I can find these guides in my local Rick Steves store? If by "travel" you mean "how to prowl foreign discoteques, malls, clubs, and locate cheap sublets," maybe.
1. Sex is a normal biological process that occurs whether it’s written about by me in a book or not. I’ve yet to see any evidence that a noticeable “Roosh Boost” occurs in countries I write about.
No one is going to argue with that. I'm mildly curious what a "Roosh Boost" involves (is this somehow related to Roosh's boast that he "explodes" in women's vaginas?) but I can live without knowing...
2.It may be hard to believe, but your women like fucking men who are from different countries. Attacking me won’t change that...
Note the use of "your women." This is a powerful taunt in cultures with patriarchal tribal traditions, in which women are seen not only as the property of their male relatives, but also as the receptacles of family honor. Roosh, one generation away from a rural Iranian village, betrays his own tribal origins here.
Note to my non-American readers: This is NOT how most American men under the age of, say, 120, refer to women!
Procreating with a different race or background is an evolutionary [sic] advantageous behavior that lowers the rate of genetic disease.
While it's well established that the offspring of first cousins who marry -- especially over successive generations -- are more likely to suffer from certain congenital diseases carried by recessive genes, I challenge you to show me any credible scientific evidence that "procreating with a different race... is an evolutionarily advantageous behavior."
3. Consensual sex with girls of legal age is not predation and is not rape, no matter how many times you say it is.
Agreed -- if and when it is indeed consensual and the girl is of legal age. Having sex with extremely intoxicated girls who are incapable of consent IS rape in the U.S. -- no matter how many times you say it isn't. Coercing women by deceiving them or simply wearing them down, or by deliberately targeting very young or naive girls with promises of a "relationship," while not rape, is "predatory" and morally repugnant.
4. You should be more concerned about turning on your women instead of trying to stop foreign men from successfully providing them with [sic] their emotional and physical needs. One path yields more sex, while the other gets you nothing.
Again with the "your women" taunt. Basically, he is telling his critics "I can take your women because I am more of a man than you are, so nyeah, nyeah, nyeah!" As for more successfully fulfilling their emotional and physical needs, that's pretty rich coming from a guy who dismisses the female orgasm as "trivial," doesn't care if his partner comes or not, and admits his own most satisfying sexual encounters have been with women he "hate-fucked."
5. By the time my book about your country has been published, thousands upon thousands of men have already had sex with your women. Nothing you do can stop this from proceeding unless you completely ban tourism.
"Nothing you can do to stop me from having sex with your women." Wanna bet? In fact, countries CAN do a lot to discourage sex tourism without banning legitimate tourism. Roosh has already been declared "persona non grata" in a number of countries. Keeping undesirable elements out is one of the reasons countries demand visas.
6. You can’t pick and choose what effects of globalization impact your country. You must take the good (increase in trade and technology) versus the bad (competition from hairy foreign men).
Is Roosh seriously suggesting that the only way to build a globally competitive economy is to allow sex tourists through their borders? What a dilemma! (At least Roosh admits he's "the bad" vs. "the good" here.)
7. Censorship doesn’t work in the internet age. Go ahead and ask the Brazilian government how easy it is to take sites off the internet. If you look hard, you’ll probably find hundreds of sex-themed articles about your country. My work is just a drop in the bucket.
Probably true. However, has it occurred to Roosh that it is not "sex-themed articles" in general they object to, but his in particular?
8. Criticizing the use of game as “manipulation” shows that you’re stuck in the wrong century. Science now backs up game concepts such as touching, pre-selection, and being alpha as ways to be more attractive to the opposite sex. Your argument is essentially “Be unattractive on purpose because it’s natural and right.” Good luck with that. Instead, American men want the best game to get penis inside vagina. You will not dampen the demand for this crucial knowledge.
Actually, I don't have much against PUA and "game" if it helps a few socially inept fellows muster enough self-confidence to climb out of their mom's basement on a Saturday night. It's pretty silly stuff, but so is most of the relationship advice out there, whether it's for girls or boys.
By "science," Roosh and his ilk mean "evolutionary psychology," which is a highly controversial field riddled with pot-holes of fallacy, inadequate data, and overgeneralization. Its status as a discipline is further compromised by yo-yos like Roosh who embrace half-baked theories as gospel and then apply them willy-nilly to justify the most heinous and socially maladaptive behavior.
Whether Roosh's brand of "game" constitutes "crucial knowledge" is also highly debatable.
9. You should thank me and my compatriots for spending money in your country. Your hotels, restaurants, tour agencies, and nightlife venues get paid. Your people will suffer more if we go elsewhere.
Personally, I find this final point the most distasteful, and if I were a national of Romania, Russia, Colombia, or any other country, I'd be infuriated by the notion that I should be grateful or beholden to some Ugly American who believes he is doing me a favor by throwing a few dollars into the local coffers. Who the hell does he think he is, the Sultan of Brunei?
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