Yes it is a zero sum game. If there are 100 men ranked one to 100 to rise up the ranks as an individual you don't make a new number. If you rise in rank someone falls. Like in any sport. And it is individual. Like a lion or other species, a male has his pick, which means others don't. To get a pick you displace another. That is life.retiredfrank wrote:Much has changed in the USA over the past 40 uears with respect to sexual market balance of power. If you can't see that, you're as willingly blind as MrMan with his inability to tell whether a man is good-looking or not (curious that screen name he has, as if wanting emphasize his masculinity, lest there be any doubts, I notice he's written another long post reassuring himself that he's normal LOL...).
Women have never wanted to marry down socially/financially, but this was less of a problem in the past, since men dominated the top jobs. Now that women have moved into top jobs more and more, the unwillingness of women to marry down means women with good jobs have a difficult time finding acceptable partners, while men with good jobs, like Kradmelder, have an abundance of choices. Opposite situation for non-elite men/women: here the women have the abundance of choices and the men have the weak negotiating position.
Kradmelder and Yick lecture about self-improvement. This is fine for the individual, since human laziness ensures that most men are NOT maximizing their potential, so it's usually possible to move up at someone else's expense. But there's usually some limit to how high a man can go. Furthermore, it's a mathematical certainty that for every man who moves up in rank, someone else moves down. 80% of the men are always in the bottom 80%, and hypergamy ensures that bottom 80% is not a good place to be for men seeking women. Moving abroad to boost competitiveness is also a zero sum game, the western man just crowds out the local man. So yes, there is an element of hand waving in those lectures about self improvement. Self improvement is the best each of us can do as individuals, but it doesn't answer the question of whether and why things changed over the last 40+ years.
As already noted, I definitely believe the "whether things have changed" question deserves a yes answer. Besides women moving up in the workforce, that I previously noted, here are some other reasons why things are more difficult nowadays; women no longer need men as providers due to welfare; women shutting down sexually (this is happening everywhere due to smartphones and social networks but almost certainly worst in the USA, which has always been the most sex-negative country in the world, at least among middle class whites, Europeans have always noticed that Americans are incredibly uptight about sex, just look at MrMan freaking for an example of make uptightness); lots of quality male immigration from Eastern Europe/India/China so that having a highly paid STEM job is nothing special in places like San Francusco or Washington DC (places where I lived which are notorious for huge surplus of men in the same elite job category as Kradmelder but who can't find mates).
I think it's important to face reality. Life is tougher for average white men than in the glory days of the 1950's through 1970's when whites dominated the world and men dominated women. But having faced reality, you have to accept that we're not going back to the way things were. All we can do is play the hand we were dealt. Try to claw your way up the ladder into the top 10% where life is still good (Kradmelder's world). Secretly cheer when other men slip and fall, because that makes your climb easier (zero sum game). Moving to another country still gives a big boost in many cases: the underlying theme of HA.
Eric also has a point. He has the warrior spirit as he says you are challenged to tame them or just quit and be celibate. Because eric feels that he will sooner or later come right. To quit has never been a man's way. Just a weak sister's. Those that quit and dont even try and sit back and whine they have no women and blame the system will never get women because they refuse to man up. You decide to partake in life's struggle or you quit and bemoan your status. This is life.
Jews didn't create this. They take advantage of it to be sure by competing. Don't know about all of you but I am not a quitter. I make a life and no kaffir BEE or AA or jews will keep me down. I get sex with out kissing a woman's arse. They make me coffee. Not the other way around. I wear the pants. If they want to play the feminist game and refuse, I move on. I have no time for whiny weak sisters either. if you want sex, like a lion, you need to go tame a pride of females, so you had better be male, not effeminate.it won't fall in your lap whining about female behaviour.
Eric is also right that modern society tries to feminise you, but it is your choice to accept that or to quit and dropout. None are winner man solutions.
There are plenty of single women. Some are desirable. There are also plenty waiting to leave their weak sister men if they see a man of the pure metal is available. But those that jump from man to man are also best avoided.
