Feminism and Game are similar programs in the sense they each offer their adherents the idea of becoming something they are not. Women: to become men. Men: to become alpha men.
Both make the same democratic assumption: that anyone can be anything they want to be.*
Both, to be successful, must make similar denials of fact.
For women to become men the idea of a man must first be whittled down. Through laws and social pressure men are made to be more feminine, making equality more attainable for women.
Likewise, average men must reduce the scope of the alpha male to make it attainable. Alpha is simply redefined as quality and quantity of sexual partners. In place of a conquering Alexander, there is now a snappily dressed man plying drinks and jokes to women in bars in exchange for sex.
The antagonism between the two programs is curious given that they essentially provide one another with what they are each looking for. The women: to be with a man who excites her like a natural alpha, but with none of the actual danger. The men: a larger pool of sexual partners who aspire to be as promiscuous as the most promiscuous men, thereby allowing him to pad his notch count and proclaim alpha status.
Indeed, in the natural alpha the two groups share a common antagonist. Both women and non-alpha men have throughout history been subject to his mistreatment and subjugation. It thereby comes as no surprise that both Game and Feminism flourish among the college educated middle class, a socio-economic class devoid of the natural alphas who are either oligarchs or outlaws.**
The natural alpha is a continuing reminder that not only are men and women not equals, but men cannot make themselves equal to other men either. Though the natural alpha is a fact of the species, the middle classes have little contact with him. It is not that the middle classes have banished or repressed him, it is that he has no interest or capacity to live among them. Cubicle jobs and working for others does not become him. Verily, as the middle class erodes economically the natural alpha will return to restore order in things, for he is drawn to danger and opportunity. Women will again assume their place as women, feminine and submissive, and selective in their sexual partners. And the game player, that Napoleon without an army, will be revealed as what he always was. In other words, just a short man.
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* There is something of the "blank slate" argument in it too, and arguably, in America, the anti-aristocratic aspects of the Horatio Alger myth.
** Today's Game-playing alpha lives in danger of encountering a natural alpha who calls his bluff and perhaps pulls his card.
¨"The natural alpha is a continuing reminder that not only are men and women not equals, but men cannot make themselves equal to other men either. "
ReplyDeleteBlew the growing hair back. Lots of wind blowing these days in fact. The baseball caps of these lads are getting blown off by the winds of Santa Cruz coming from these words. First wind, then no food, then no water, then there is a hollow look in the eyes of the game men, suddently. The women stop asking " Why dont you smile?" No, soon only empty looks and the desolation of decades of shit music, shit television, shit language, all hours, all minutes, all moments, fucking shit simulacre, sacharine shit, a big fucking hotel just blew down and now they are dying in the fucking wind. What an abscess. Men the humans began to smell too much there are still the mountains, still the desert of the pampas. I prefer the biting flies to the noise of western women.