General posts that are not about any topic in particular.
Let’s look at some comments in response to “Limited Agency” that I’ve received this week. It already treats women as little more than children. This is exactly what society believes: Society infantilizes women, and I’m somewhat surprised that women—especially feminists—don’t find it absolutely insulting to be condescended to like that. I have …
One key aspect of solipsism is the formation of the hive mentality. In “Did Solipsism Kill the Manosphere?” one of the key facets of solipsism is the formation of social cliques in order to establish and enforce ideological purity. I wrote: Perhaps even more awkward is that exclusionary social cliques …
In “Did Solipsism Kill the Manosphere,” we noted the five solipsistic ways—anecdotes, social cliques, passing judgment, emotional manipulation, and authoritarianism—that are regularly found in the Manosphere. As part of that examination, we showed how solipsism is used to enforce ideological purity through exclusion. We also examined how the accusation of …
In the early days of the Manosphere, there were two driving concepts: female hypergamy and female solipsism. In the days of Chataeu Heartiste and R. Roger Devlin, these two concepts were said to be the main driving factors behind female behavior. At Dalrock’s blog, hypergamy was mentioned thousands of times …
Over the years I’ve read many comments and articles with the Manosphere that about the agency of men and women. Searching the archives, I found thousands of references to agency at Dalrock and Sigma Frame. Most of the debate centered around the binary question “Do women have agency?” Then I …
For me the number is basically negative. I’ve discouraged people from going to church, or at least from attending any of the churches that I was attending. My last three churches were UMC, Baptist, and a Non-Denominational Church. Here is a sampling of what I experienced: David and Jonathan were …
Since Free Northerner no longer blogs in the Manosphere, I like to repost his material from Twitter. Free Northerner describes the same things I’ve been talking about: the reliance on anecdotes to form one’s worldview and that the biggest threat to men is not divorce or bad marriages, but not …
This week we are discussing what is going on with modern dating, marriage, and divorce. In our last two posts (here and here) we discussed getting married at a young age (between the ages of 18 and 25). We pointed out that there was little practical benefit to delaying marriage …
This week we are discussing what is going on with modern dating, marriage, and divorce. In yesterday’s post “On Marrying Young,” I noted that divorce risk is strongly tiered by intelligence. Not everyone is a statistician, so it may not be clear exactly what I was talking about. Let’s show …
This week we are discussing what is going on with modern dating, marriage, and divorce. It is common in the Manosphere to encourage young men to avoid marriage. This goes back a long time. For example, F. Roger Devlin—who coined the modern iteration of the term ‘hypergamy’—wanted men to marry …