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10-03-2010, 04:00 AM
Roosh's post about the future of game brought to mind a trend in female behavior regarding girls and their self-perceived value shooting through the roof thanks to relentless male attention from social network sites and online dating.
Thought experiment: imagine two girls with an objective beauty rank of 6. Which girl will have a higher opinion of her attractiveness to men?
a. A rural girl without internet access who does not have an online presence and has only received flirtatious attention from a handful of men who live in her town?
b. A thoroughly modernized and plugged-in girl with a Facebook account that she posts photos to every day which gather comments from twenty different men, a Twitter account with a hundred male followers who read her every passing inane thought, and a Match.com online profile that receives emails from hundreds of horny men on a weekly basis?
You can see where this is going. It would be a miracle if girl (b) didn't delude herself that she was a 7, or maybe even an 8, and behave accordingly. Conversely, there is a good chance girl (a) perceives herself having lower value than she does, because of the paucity of male feedback.
It's long been a contention of this blog that a girl's attractiveness level is objectively self-evident; that is, that girls intuitively know what their ranking is without men to offer feedback. They have mirrors after all. But because the female mind is a mushily pliable organ, and because so much of the female prefrontal cortex is immersed in the job of spinning self-delusions (spin hamster spin!), it stands to reason that a modern, technological context - within which instafame and the amplified sexual barter that flow from it are only a click away - could conceivably sever the holy link between mirror and female self-assessment.
There is evidence that this is happening today in the West on a scale unknown in all of history. Thanks to Facebook and all the online dating sites, women are the recipients of more male flattery and solicitude (however insincere or inept) than they know what to do with, and this is as true for the hotties as it is for the middling plain janes. (The ugly girls continue to find no relief in the celebritizing factory of the internet; their parched romantic ostracism remains intractable.) The result of this massive, all-encompassing meddling with the gluttonous female ego will be a dark pink world of entitled, demanding princesses holding unrealistic standards and bullet point checklists a mile long.
A woman come of age in this world is a ravenous beast who has had a tube of sunshine shoved up her butthole and an IV of Megan Fox attitude pumping her full of unicorn rainbow buttercup gas.
What sane man would want to deal with that?
Enter game. How do you handle a woman who thinks she is God's gift to men?
You knock her bloated opinion of herself down a few notches.
And how do you do this?
You qualify her. You make demands of her. You extract compliance from her. You tease her. You neg her. You deny her expectations until her lust is so overpowering you may as well have paralyzed her with your supersecret magmus look.
Thought experiment: imagine two girls with an objective beauty rank of 6. Which girl will have a higher opinion of her attractiveness to men?
a. A rural girl without internet access who does not have an online presence and has only received flirtatious attention from a handful of men who live in her town?
b. A thoroughly modernized and plugged-in girl with a Facebook account that she posts photos to every day which gather comments from twenty different men, a Twitter account with a hundred male followers who read her every passing inane thought, and a Match.com online profile that receives emails from hundreds of horny men on a weekly basis?
You can see where this is going. It would be a miracle if girl (b) didn't delude herself that she was a 7, or maybe even an 8, and behave accordingly. Conversely, there is a good chance girl (a) perceives herself having lower value than she does, because of the paucity of male feedback.
It's long been a contention of this blog that a girl's attractiveness level is objectively self-evident; that is, that girls intuitively know what their ranking is without men to offer feedback. They have mirrors after all. But because the female mind is a mushily pliable organ, and because so much of the female prefrontal cortex is immersed in the job of spinning self-delusions (spin hamster spin!), it stands to reason that a modern, technological context - within which instafame and the amplified sexual barter that flow from it are only a click away - could conceivably sever the holy link between mirror and female self-assessment.
There is evidence that this is happening today in the West on a scale unknown in all of history. Thanks to Facebook and all the online dating sites, women are the recipients of more male flattery and solicitude (however insincere or inept) than they know what to do with, and this is as true for the hotties as it is for the middling plain janes. (The ugly girls continue to find no relief in the celebritizing factory of the internet; their parched romantic ostracism remains intractable.) The result of this massive, all-encompassing meddling with the gluttonous female ego will be a dark pink world of entitled, demanding princesses holding unrealistic standards and bullet point checklists a mile long.
A woman come of age in this world is a ravenous beast who has had a tube of sunshine shoved up her butthole and an IV of Megan Fox attitude pumping her full of unicorn rainbow buttercup gas.
What sane man would want to deal with that?
Enter game. How do you handle a woman who thinks she is God's gift to men?
You knock her bloated opinion of herself down a few notches.
And how do you do this?
You qualify her. You make demands of her. You extract compliance from her. You tease her. You neg her. You deny her expectations until her lust is so overpowering you may as well have paralyzed her with your supersecret magmus look.