A New Hope
Towards the end of The Bitter Taste of the Red Pill I wrote this: The truth will set you free, but it doesn’t make truth hurt any less, nor does it make truth any prettier, and it certainly doesn’t...
View ArticleGame Works
Game, for lack of a better word, is good. Game is right. Game works. After listening to myself on this weekend’s interview with Christian McQueen and Dagonet I realized that as I became more...
View ArticleYes Means Fear
Not surprisingly the latest “anti-rape” Yes Means Yes law just passed for California university campuses has been the topic du jour in the manosphere this week. I usually like to allow mainstream news...
View ArticleMental Point of Origin
I’m working another contract gig for the next few months, and recently I had an interesting encounter with a new girl on my team. She’s 34, Japanese (dual citizenship) maybe an HB 6.5-7 and over the...
View ArticleBoundaries
The Mate Guarding topic of last week’s post made for some lively debate. It usually does because it’s this behavior, and the root motivators of it, that gets to the heart of dynamics such as an Alpha...
View ArticleIntimacy
Bad Painter had a great question a few months ago: What exactly is intimacy? What does that look like in a Redpill context? I used to think I knew what intimacy was, in a blue pill way at least. And I...
View ArticleVulnerability
One of the most endemic masculine pitfalls men have faced since the rise of feminine social primacy has been the belief that their ready displays of emotional vulnerability will make men more...
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 ArticleThe Fog of Menopause
Strange things happen to women at the onset of menopause. Most mature men who’ve experienced it firsthand can attest to the obvious symptoms: Hot flashes, loss of libido, vaginal dryness, mood swings...
View ArticleTeach Your Children Well
Yes I know my enemies, they’re the teachers who taught me to fight me. Today’s picture comes to us courtesy of popsugar – h/t heartiste and Zelscorpion. In honor of International Men’s Day, this...
View ArticleHysteria
In light of the Feminine Imperative having itself capsized over the UVa rape fantasy retracted by Rolling Stone this month, I was reminded of this video and post by Heartiste (Roissy) a few years ago:...
View ArticleSocialized Hypergamy
This weekend’s discussion post was inspired by commenter Johnnycomelateley Rape hysteria also has a deeper motive, equalitarianism (high taxes and social distribution) has changed the economic ecology...
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 ArticleThe Red Pill Lens
One of the results of becoming Red Pill aware is a meta “awareness” of the feminine centric social order we live in today. On this side of the Red Pill it’s almost routine for me now to filter what’s...
View ArticleMutiny
There are times I’m typing away on a particular topic and I get scooped by my own comentariat. Quote from BadPainter (emphasis mine): George – “She prefers a dual pluralistic feminine sexuality where...
View ArticleCommodifying Love
Dalrock gave me something to chew on recently: In my first post of 2014 I introduced the topic of the ugly feminist. As I explained at the time, this is an old charge but is typically aimed at the...
View ArticleThe Love Experience
Glenn and a few others had a question about last week’s Love Commodity post.: @Rollo – This seems very inconsistent to me. How can this be true – ” Men and women can and do love each other intensely...
View ArticleThe Remedial Red Pill
As of this post there are now 400 essays on Rational Male. And if there’s one thing that writing for as long as I have in what’s now known as the manosphere has taught me is the difficulty of having...
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...
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