The Gift
After reposting my seminal essay on Vagintine’s day last week an interesting topic arose. One of my assertions in the V-Day post was that a man ought never to buy his wife or girlfriend lingerie as a...
View ArticleBeta Fucks
I had an interesting experience last Friday. I had finished a good workout and was on my way home when Bebé Tomassi texted me asking if I would pick up a sandwich for her from Subway and bring it to...
View ArticlePreventative Medicine – Part II
Navigating the SMV continues to be one of my most prolific posts. I can remember originally writing that post and plotting the graph as a one-off response to a comment (by Deti I think) made...
View ArticleThe ‘Real’ Nice
I once posed this question to the SoSuave forum: Let us say, in a strange alternate world, women would LOVE you if you were a Nice Guy. In this world, you could do all the things you wanted to do. You...
View ArticleOwed Sex
In the aftermath of the Eliot Rodger’s tragedy there was one resounding go-to mantra from mainstream media, blue pill plugins and the femintariat alike… “Men are not owed sex for anything.” Last week...
View ArticleControlling Interests
I realize I dropped this quote last week, but it provides us with a unique illustration of the prevailing feminine psychology that’s been evolving since the sexual revolution. “When looking for a life...
View ArticleGame and Circumstance
“Don’t be mad E. It’s not our fault you were born without the sport fucking gene, come on.” At the start of July, 2011 (a month before I began this blog in earnest) I took a backpacking trip through...
View ArticleOpen Hypergamy
As I wrote in Controlling Interests, the secrecy previously necessary for hypergamy and women’s pluralistic sexual strategy is rapidly being replaced with not just a new, overt, social openness about...
View ArticleThe Myth of the ‘Good’ Guy
For as often as I’ve made my best attempts to define what I believe constitutes feminine Hypergamy on this blog, it seems that critics of the red pill, and even newer, well-meaning red pill...
View ArticleMoments of Clarity
Even for the most abject Beta man there comes significant points in his life when he makes a Red Pill connection – a point at which, despite his feminine-primary socialization and for all his own...
View ArticleMalice and Forethought
After the engaging conversation in this week’s comment thread, there’s something I’ve been contemplating and I think it might make for a good weekend discussion. With regard to this new comfort women...
View ArticleBeta Tells
TRP poster, needathrowawayplease from the Red Pill subreddit has a timely question / observation: Knowing your SO’s menstrual cycle can be extremely powerful. [Indeed] During the fertile stage of...
View ArticleRational Male – Q&A
SoSuave and Rational Male reader compleks had a few questions about what he read in The Rational Male book. Since I’ve been doing these weekend questions lately I thought these might make for some...
View ArticleEstrus
Last week saw the publication of the latest paper by Dr. Steven W. Gangestad and Dr. Martie Hasselton titled Human Estrus: Implications for Relationship Science. Anyone who’s read the Rational Male...
View ArticleDomain Dependence
I received the following email from a reader this week: Hi Rollo, I ran across the below thread on the TRP discussion on Reddit. I’m not normally a big follower of reddit but this one was good and is...
View Article“She turned on me”
In the last comment thread Rational Male regular, Glenn, had an interesting exchange that went like this: My marriage exactly. And she really did turn on me by the time my daughter was 2, also having...
View ArticleLoyalty & Hypergamy
I actually had another post warming up for this week, but I received the following correspondence from a reader whom I’ve promised to keep anonymous. I don’t do ‘guest posts’ on Rational Male, however...
View ArticleMemento Mori
sjfrellc hit me with this question from Monday’s post: Rollo, what are your real “feelings” about this blue pill guy. Are you surprised that you couldn’t peer counsel him to come around to your...
View ArticleThe Invisibles
Forge the Sky: The heart of all this is: in a woman’s mind, humans have three genders. Women, alphas, and betas. The problem is, it’s difficult to distinguish between the latter two as there are no...
View ArticleMaking Up for Missing Out
Back in February I had an interesting exchange with commenter TuffLove. The conversation focused on his recent singleness due to his wife of 20-some years feeling the call of the Alpha and decided...
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