Squalid posted:

Why the heck is an anthropologist using PUA shit as a serious analytic tool

it was more in the context of animal social structures

getfiscal posted:

i need this thread stickied to remind me and thug lessons that we're betas

likewise

getfiscal posted:

i need this thread stickied to remind me and thug lessons that we're betas

i was trolling some friends and friends of friends about this stuff at a party last weekend and a lady was like 'so i suppose you read all this stuff so you can label yourself an Alpha huh?' and i was all like 'nah i'd say i'm more of a high-beta' with a dismissive smirk and turned to go and get a beer and she kept following me around trying to talk to me.

Beta is a state of mind, it's not written up on one's birth certificate like blood type. To some extent it's simply a function of modernity where oft-absent parents (especially fathers), atomized social networks, vanished traditions and the wipe-clean sterility of suburbia all conspire to sever the passing of knowledge and wisdom that help a boy become a man.

Beta-dom is simply mild Autism in much the same way that Alpha-ness is mild sociopathy

babyhueypnewton posted:

i hate when people say 'holidays', it's the essence of liberalism.

wow a sentence with no meaning

At birth, men and women have the same intellectual potential; there is no primary difference in intelligence between the sexes. It is also a fact that potential left to stagnate will atrophy. Women do not use their mental capacity: they deliberately let it disintegrate. After a few years of sporadic training, they revert to a state of irreversible mental torpor. Why do women not make use of their intellectual potential? For the simple reason that they do not need to. It is not essential for their survival. Theoretically it is possible for a beautiful woman to have less intelligence than a chimpanzee and still be considered an acceptable member of society.
By the age of twelve at the latest, most women have decided to become prostitutes. Or, to put it another way they have planned a future for themselves which consists of choosing a man and letting him do all the work. In return for his support, they are prepared to let him make use of their vagina at certain given intervals. The minute a woman has made this decision she ceases to develop her mind. She may, of course, go on to obtain various degrees and diplomas. These increase her market value in the eyes of men,
for men believe that a woman who can recite things by heart must also know and understand them. But any real possibility of communication

There are periodicals and books which deal with politics, philosophy, science, economics, and psychology. There are also those dealing with fashion, cosmetics, interior decoration, society gossip, cookery, crime, and love affairs. Men read almost exclusively the first kind, women exclusively the second. Both groups consider each other's reading matter so repulsive and dreary that they would rather be bored to death than indulge in it. The fact is, men are more interested in whether there is life on Mars or whose arguments are more valid in the Sino-Russian frontier dispute than women are. Women only want to know how to embroider little brown bunny-rabbits, how to crochet a dress, or whether a certain film star is getting a divorce. So the sexes continue along their separate paths, each with his or her own horizon, never establishing real contact with the other. There is only one subject which will arouse the interest of both, and that is the subject of women.

Since the range of subjects likely to interest women is necessarily limited, editors are frequently at a loss for copy. As a result they have to fall back on the so-called male themes and, since men's interests are so wide, there are plenty of them. These go through a complete metamorphosis to suit female readers, the main rule of which is simple: each article must create the impression that it is basically a report about women. For example, an account of the life of a former heavyweight champion must read: Women ruined me.' If a composer is interviewed for an article, he must say at least once that women are his inspiration, that a melody is `like a pretty girl' - only not quite so beautiful. With skill, even the most unlikely subjects can he camouflaged to appeal to women. One can arouse their interest in the defence budget. providing one dresses up the report as an account of the family life of the Secretary of Defence. It goes without saying that sufficient space must be allowed for pictures of his wife and children. Women will read articles on foreign countries if the passage begins: `I married an Israeli' (Japanese, Egyptian, Chilean), provided the wife in question comes from the same background as her female readers.

Even Simone de Beauvoir let this opportunity pass when she wrote her book The Second Sex (1949), which could have been the first book on the subject of women. Instead, she created a handbook of Freud's, Marx's, Kant's, etc., ideas about women. Rather than looking for once at woman, she researched the books men had written and found, of course, signs of woman's disadvantage everywhere. The novelty of her work lay in the fact that for the first time, men's opinion of women carried the signature of a woman. But now the way was clear: Betty Friedan, Kate Millett, Germaine Greer ... each a repetition of the last; they went head over heels in their effort to come up with evidence of male infamy. But they wrote nothing really worth mentioning on the subject: women.

Nothing has changed since, although women today, more than ever before, have every opportunity to make statements about themselves on their own radio or TV programs, in newspaper columns or magazines. But they do nothing except repeat and chew over the old mothballed ideas men have about women, adding new details here and there. Instead of pointing out to their following what a miserable lot they really are, the peak of female dignity is achieved by rejecting advertising for bras or vaginal sprays. The peak of female originality is reached the moment a women's magazine carries a male nude centerfold a la Playboy.

wow, i guess that in the sam way that only nixon could go to china, only a woman can critique feminism

conec posted:

Ironicwarcriminal posted:

getfiscal posted:

i need this thread stickied to remind me and thug lessons that we're betas

i was trolling some friends and friends of friends about this stuff at a party last weekend and a lady was like 'so i suppose you read all this stuff so you can label yourself an Alpha huh?' and i was all like 'nah i'd say i'm more of a high-beta' with a dismissive smirk and turned to go and get a beer and she kept following me around trying to talk to me.

Beta is a state of mind, it's not written up on one's birth certificate like blood type. To some extent it's simply a function of modernity where oft-absent parents (especially fathers), atomized social networks, vanished traditions and the wipe-clean sterility of suburbia all conspire to sever the passing of knowledge and wisdom that help a boy become a man.

Beta-dom is simply mild Autism in much the same way that Alpha-ness is mild sociopathy

dis story makes me want 2 board my windows n door n never go outside again fck .. badde .,. feel repugnance for men n women ..
idc if its autistic or not but get along better wid objects they don`t smirk at me or consume alcohol or follow me around eagerly

Sry..off`topic but yea. . . my 2 cents

objects are p. cool

conec posted:

Ironicwarcriminal posted:

getfiscal posted:

i need this thread stickied to remind me and thug lessons that we're betas

i was trolling some friends and friends of friends about this stuff at a party last weekend and a lady was like 'so i suppose you read all this stuff so you can label yourself an Alpha huh?' and i was all like 'nah i'd say i'm more of a high-beta' with a dismissive smirk and turned to go and get a beer and she kept following me around trying to talk to me.

Beta is a state of mind, it's not written up on one's birth certificate like blood type. To some extent it's simply a function of modernity where oft-absent parents (especially fathers), atomized social networks, vanished traditions and the wipe-clean sterility of suburbia all conspire to sever the passing of knowledge and wisdom that help a boy become a man.

Beta-dom is simply mild Autism in much the same way that Alpha-ness is mild sociopathy



dis story makes me want 2 board my windows n door n never go outside again fck .. badde .,. feel repugnance for men n women ..
idc if its autistic or not but get along better wid objects they don`t smirk at me or consume alcohol or follow me around eagerly

Sry..off`topic but yea. . . my 2 cents

can girls be autistic?

Ironicwarcriminal posted:

can girls be autistic?

of course not. does getting upset when someone tells you to smile sound like something an autistic person would do??