* America can’t decide what an adult is... more correctly, a small, but vocal, number of older women hate competing with younger women (can you blame them?), and they are trying to make attractive women “out of bounds.” Good luck, but the effort is happening. The media consists of a lot of older, single, spinster women. They’ll produce this content with the assiduousness of ChatGPT. It’s sad that “Women don't think that women can make adult decisions and be held accountable for those decisions,” but that is our world.
* Good conversations have lots of doorknobs. Lots of guys ask about how conversations work, and this is a partial answer. Advice for how to have better “normal” conversations is helpful, but flirty conversations should have some sexual spikes and greater male leading than normal conversations. If you’ve never consciously thought about how to have better conversations, start now. Everything is a skill that can be deliberately practiced.
There’s probably a lot out there via “how to have better conversations” and “how to develop better social skills.” But the first step is realizing that these are skills that can be improved... thinking that some people are born with it, and some aren’t, is a way of evading responsibility. Do you want to win, or do you want to be comfortable?
* Mormon influencer exposes ‘soft swinging’ secrets on TikTok: ‘Everyone hooked up.’ Sounds fun, in the moment. “Yet, after revealing her — and the others’ — secret, she said she felt ‘free.’” God knows there’s nothing more important than feeling free.
“In an Instagram Story posted Wednesday, she wrote how thankful she was for familial support and ‘everyone else checking in without judgement.’” Being judgmental is almost as terrible a sin as not feeling free. If the culture of “me” and the culture of narcissism has infiltrated even the Mormons, what hope is there for the rest of us?
* One-third of guys say we’d like multiple women. How many could, in the real world, handle two women at once? Many fewer than you think. The threesome pr0n fantasy is hugely different than the “multiple women reality” (Red Quest is a reality-focused media outlet). Talk to couples where they’ve done some FFM threesomes and now the girl wants an MFM... it’s hard to find a guy. Lots of things are harder to do in real life than you might think from videos, which is a good reason to stay off video.
* The Skewed and the Screwed: When Mating Meets Politics. Do you want to think you’re right about national politics that have virtually no impact on your everyday life, or do you want to get laid? DATE-ONOMICS covers related ground, which is why Red Quest covers it (know any books that should be covered here but aren’t?).
* Podcast with tech guy philosophers, where they talk about hypergamy, the number of guys who are pathetic (falling in love with ChatGPT, really?), and the way top guys are collecting a lot more of the pussy. The tech guy philosophers can’t get to the stage of wondering whether letting the future of the species and the future of consciousness depend on flighty women’s emotions is a good idea and net good tradeoff, but they are close. Close, but still wanting to stay in the expanded Overton Window... I don’t blame them. Some ideas are too incendiary. The ideas about being a top guy are out there... most guys prefer video games and junk food... which leaves huge opportunities for those of us who prefer the pussy.
Moment of Zen (MoZ) is an interesting podcast, although most of it isn’t directly game-relevant.
* Nash’s second daygame lay, with a girl who has a boyfriend... who isn’t him. “At least 1/2 of the girls I date are in relationships (married or boyfriends), and I usually don’t know until mid-date. I had forgotten this one had a BF.” I like this, “You only have one technique and one frame and you use it and sometimes it works. Now get other frames and other techniques and compare and pick the most powerful one.”
* Also, Nash goes on six dates with a nineteen year old who hasn’t yet made sexual debut. His persistence is impressive, but I would probably see my own interest wane after three or so dates.
* Richard Reeves speaks to the female desire to be desired by men. He’s watching The White Lotus, a show I also watched and found remarkable for its un-woke depictions of many characters. The young beta male guy hides his dick and comes from woke Stanford, while the girl his age is repulsed by his feminism... justifiably, because feminism is unsexy and repulsive. Stanford should start teaching classes on masculinity... guys writing on the Internet are more helpful than colleges in helping guys get and stay laid. Most women want to get f**ked and will be annoyed with guys who aren’t excited to deliver the goods. People don’t want mopey employees and they really don’t want mopey lovers.
The White Lotus is critical of the woke losers, but in an intelligent way. “The [male] feminist” is more directly critical but both works get to the same place. Girls want to be desired and men who spend too much time imbibing the pussy-drying feminism of college professors and bureaucrats will lose the race for sex.
* If you want to read a bunch of feminist cope. This is what happens when we pit individual desires against collective structures. Institutions are there to guide individuals into long-term positive habits and success. The problem is that young women really love the captivating attention they get from men, so they want freedom. Older women want to monopolize male resources and take care of their children, but younger women can inhibit older women from monopolizing male resources. So the younger ones favor freedom and the older ones favor strictures. Intrasex competition is a bitch. Feminists wanted freedom until they got freedom.
I don't see a good way around this. Sure, older women can try to shame men for what men prefer, but that's not going to work any more.
* “How To Make First Dates Feel Less Like Interviews,” from the U Up? podcast. Their advice isn’t terrible, although the male host’s voice is annoying in that radio DJ way, but they don’t get to the heart of the issue. My first impulse is to say “fewer questions and more statements / cold reads.” Their advice, like most mainstream advice, ends where pickup and seduction artistry begins. Sadly, no one mainstream is allowed to speak to the specific mechanics of pickup and seduction (Dan, the guy calling into the podcast, should hire Redpill Dad). “Don’t be so shy!” But what does that look like?
Seduction is like any other skill... it can be learned. But you have to practice basics a lot before you do anything advanced and creative. No one great at the piano gets there without practicing scales, finger position, etc. To know when to break the rules and when to follow, you must know the rules. Maybe we’re all too uncomfortable with behaviorism.
* Laughter wins. Do you want to win?