Authentic “amused mastery” is the healthiest path from the red pill anger phase IMO
If you were unfortunate enough to have allowed yourself to devolve into a defeated, emasculated, sexless plowhorse as a result of blue pill conditioning, waking up can be absolutely excruciating
But BLAME and VICTIMHOOD are not part of the red pill experience, no matter what any manosphere red pill mgtow MRA blah blah guru says
That’s your WEAKNESS again. Frustrating how many “red pill aware” guys miss this
Real RP is total ownership of everything that has and will happen FOR you
Total dedication to your own unique mission
Being your own mental point of origin, always. NO exceptions
It’s about seeing how you can’t serve anyone without serving yourself first
So what about women?
They are NOT the cause of any of your pain. They are not the cause of any “problem” you encountered. They are not an “opposing” force, any more than money is
Both are you make them
Both are ever-evolving feminine energies that require MORE of you
Step up
So you got lied to. So what?
So Disney fish hooked you. So what?
So no man showed you anything. So what?
So gynocentric “couples therapy” dumped fuel on your dumpster fire. So what?
Everything has officially done to shit. So what?
Congratulations, you have nothing to lose
IMO, Once you’ve rebuilt yourself enough, “amused mastery” with women becomes your default mental model, naturally
You know her nature. You know what drives her. You know she’s a little “feelings machine”. You know that in a lot of ways she’s like a kid.
But she’s also literally beauty
As a world without a woman is cold, angular, efficient, orderly, sensible, empty-ish, boring-ish, gray.
She’s cute, a little ridiculous, often insane, funny, adorable
Taking her too seriously is lacking nuance
When she gives it her absolute all, to throw you off your game, at best it will register a small dent in your frame. It’s amusing. Because you have mastered yourself.
“Amused mastery” is when she stares at you across the table, and instead of saying “What? What’s wrong honey”? You just wink, smirk, and go back to what you were doing.
Amused mastery is being conscious and aware and observant about how she’s feeling, and listening to THAT, not so much the words flowing out of her mouth.
Amused mastery is doing something small for her because you know she lives in her feelings and you take joy in being able to make her feel things.
When it comes to women, amused mastery is the path away from blame and victimhood and bitterness and cycle repetition
It’s both a practice and a result
As a result, it’s evidence of truly being your own mental point of origin, the safest state for both women and kids
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For a man, “couples therapy" is NOT an effective strategy to heal or fix a relationship.
Short thread here for men who have to go, or might have to go at some point in the future
The couples therrapy format (verbal communication) lends itself entirely to the female imperative of putting her emotional experience before everything else
Deep down, you ALREADY know this
This is another example of our gynocentric culture convincing you that something you know in your bones is “toxic” or something you need to “evolve beyond”.
No. You’re not a woman. You’re a man. You’re different, and that’s a wonderful thing.
IMO Preventing divorce and broken families starts with how we talk to pre-adolescent and adolescent boys. All other efforts are band-aids.
"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men" - Frederick Douglas
Boys in the 12-17 years old range should be encouraged by other men to internalize and OWN the following concepts:
Boys and girls are NOT the same
Boys and girls communicate for different purposes
Boys are stronger than girls (This is both a gift and a responsibility)
Biologically speaking, a woman is more valuable than a man
When pairing, her role is to gatekeep sex. Your role is to gatekeep commitment, safety, and security. Pairing is a dance of small trades, testing and creating trust.
For the record, on this account I speak to men. In words that work for men. These words aren't for women.
David Deida says the same shit as Rollo. But Deida says it like a man-bun yogi and women LOVE it. Rollo says it like a 80s LA rock nerd and women vomit.
Ideas are the same
I say it in the voice that works for me.
I didn't get it when she said "I don't feel safe because you don't listen to me".
I got it when a man told me "she wants 'safety' as much as you want sex", and listening means just holding it, no solving, no fixing, just validate".
I didn't get it when she said "you're not seeing me"
I got it when a man said "she's like a child, all she's ever saying is 'I don't like how I FEEL. Sit with me until it changes. But don't try to fix it'. Do that and she'll feel heard and seen".
Chris Rock is right: “Unconditional love is for women and dogs. A man is only loved on the condition that he provide something”
Except for one thing: God
Listen... I have no dog in this fight, but conceptually speaking, this is the only “out” for a man who truly “needs” that...
Unconditional love
As we all know, one of the nightmares playing out in modern families is men seeking another mommy from their wife, since they didn’t get the unconditional love from their own, or no dad to show them another way but being a “boy”. Boys NEED mama...
But as soon as your wife senses you NEED her, she pulls away. So in this sense, God is an “out”. That is, if you can get there. It’s an umbrella over YOU the man (who takes care of us, huh?) that CAN provide that feeling of unconditional love
@Tonster961 Some ideas: Read The Mental Point of Origin post by @RationalMale, The Unchained Man, No More Mr Nice Guy, When I Say No I Feel Guilty. Lift weights, get jacked, talk less. Keep a validation journal...
@Tonster961@RationalMale ... write down every time you seek external approval. Treat it like quitting smoking, it's just a habit that needs to be broken)
And continue to practice "orchestrating" a woman's emotions. They're so easily to work with when you see them as little "feeling machines"...
@Tonster961@RationalMale ... eventually they start to get a lot "smaller" in your mind, cute, funny, adorable. What emerges is an approach often called "amused mastery", where you're legitimately entertained by them, but never shaken by them, and DEFINITELY not submissive to them
Sometimes I worry that feminism will destroy the nuclear family. But then I remember Darwin..
When the feminist removed all the governors evolution create to ensure careful mate selection (via the pill, morning after pill, abortion, less shaming about notch count...
value of virginity, no fault divorce, gynocentric custody laws, etc.) the net result is that women ended up just providing cheap sex to men. That's what we gained as a society.
So... us men don't have to work as hard. We don't have to be as rich, organized, connected...
we don't have to talk to her father, we don't really have to commit if we don't want to. All we're on the hook for is the child support, worst case
So on the face of it, all these things effectively KILLED the family. If "the nuclear family" was a stock it'd be in the shitter..