Thanks for signing up to be a free subscriber! This a paid-subscriber-only bonus article. Paid subscribers get several bonus articles per month, usually at least 5. If you want to, please consider upgrading your subscription. You can also support the newsletter by just heart reacting this post to increase its visibility :).Hi! Did you already fill in my new survey on waiting in relationships? I’d love your input, if you have 5 minutes. You can fill it in here. Thank you! More and more women realize, with the help of good therapists and coercive control experts, that abusers are not ‘incapable of self-control’ or driven by ‘demons’ or ‘anger issues’. Instead, they are choosing to abuse because they can and because this gives them immediate advantages that they think will make them happy, as Dr Emma Katz shows. If you will, the abusive mindset of these men is their way of ‘gaming’ relationships so they can ‘win’ at them. Some of the abusive tactics they use come to them instinctively, some of them are explicitly taught by the manosphere, but it’s all designed to enable them to get more from women with less. Less effort, less reciprocity, less good behavior. That’s what the dread game is about, or the convoluted mental gymnastics such as the one-sided monogamy and other bullshit concepts. But what a lot of them don’t realize is that choosing this set of values won’t benefit their life in the long term. Adopting the so-called red-pilled beliefs will only give them perhaps small manipulative advantages in the short term, but it will make them unhappy too, not just everyone around them. When me and other feminists tell them that the kind of relationships the manosphere grooms them for are abusive, misogynist men aren’t interested in listening, because they don’t want to be with feminist women anyway and they think they know better from their unethical brethren that are teaching them how to ‘game’ the system and obtain naive, obedient, manipulated women to take advantage of. But the strategies they learn from the Tates and Tomassis of the world can’t work for long without making them unhappy too. Here is how the sad life of misogynistic men usually unfolds, and why manosphere beliefs just set them up to be in relationships with women who resent them and don’t want to have sex with them, and to build families that grow more and more unhappy and resentful as time passes. ... Continue reading this post for free in the Substack app |