Mark B(a)achman dropped by yesterday to fill us in on what happened to his blog and what he’s doing next:
Hey guys,
The stuff I posted was from my old blog. Nothing new there (except the photos). I brought Suki into it to prove a point after I told her she couldn’t handle to know what men really think – and she swore otherwise.
Snowflaking by a beautiful woman in real time. You should thank me. No one else has the balls to do it – then again, I’m VERY sensitive to and acknowledge the fact that many writers probably have much more to lose than I do.
God damn I love being right.
The old blog was deleted when my boss’ daughter saw it. So girl drama yes, but not the kind you’re thinking of.
I’m not much of a blogger, so that stuff will be sifted through, have the beta rage deleted, and be reposted all at once in the next year or so. I’ll take my laptop to a nice beach in Cancun soon, and put my thoughts on paper.
Come on now, y’all know there’s no such thing as a Better Beta. You’re either a man or you’re a pussy. There’s no in between worth celebrating.
See you soon, but if I do it right, you won’t know its me!
Oh, forgot to mention that I did learn one fun thing through my little experiment:
It is impossible to kill a rationalization hamster. You can starve it, poison it, logic with it, reason with it, provide third party evidence and empirical data, and even feed it’s own words back to it, but it only grows stronger.
I think this may actually be the secret to the origin of the universe. The only other thing I can think of that would be as resilient and have the ability to create something out of nothing like that damn hamster would be God almighty himself.
“Snowflaking”? I am SO stealing that.
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better beta you are a selfish little man. you like a girl teasing the guy with flashes of butt crack with no intention of delivering the goods. i condemn you.
Ferdinand Bardamu you are as wrong about ThinkingHousewife. Abortion destroys a woman’s womb and gay marriage is an aberration. The problem is when conservatives simply attack these two symptons instead of attacking the ideology and worldview beneath them. And attacking other symptons as well (divorce, casual sex, single motherhood, singler fatherhood, etc).
Meaning hyperindividualism, misplaced egalitarianism, multiculturalism, mass illegal immigration, political correctness, white guilt, moral relativism and so forth.
Some conservatives until now have been babbling about a few of the symptons of the cold (which are true in themselves) while forgetting to demonstrate how these things came forward. A person needs to understand the origins, it’s symptons, how to treat it and how to prevent it in the future.
I read both grerp and ThinkingHousewife and sometimes follow your blog. I think (as an outsider from the US) believe that you make good points.
I understand that ‘game’ is what you need to score with the type of women around you. I understand what you are going through.
Here is something from the ThinkingHousewife — http://www.thinkinghousewife.com/wp/2010/08/disillusioned-and-unmarried/
”This proposition is difficult at best. I don’t think it’s too radical of me to say that people tend to cluster by lifestyle and ideology over large geographic regions. If a man who is living in a blue state on the East Coast is looking for a mate like Alan describes here, it may be literally (or almost literally) impossible for him to do so. I’ve lived in several different regions of the US, blue state and red state, and things are very different between them.
The blogger Roissy paints a sexpocalypse-now view of the D.C. area, and my experience of that area is pretty similar in regards to people’s behavior. Unlike Asher and Roissy I don’t participate in the hedonistic culture. It’s not because I’m a saint, instead, for some reason it feels rather unnatural to me. But when you are swamped by that culture, when it is everywhere you go, you can understand why men like Asher give up — even if you don’t agree with it.”
”What a sad state of affairs young men (and women) are in today! Anyway, since I sympathize with Asher, who was after all quite innocent to the ghastly culture he was born into, I want to give him some practical advise. I have seen in my direct environment young men wrestle with this problem. They said to me that they could find women for casual sex but not for a committed relationship.
Now I am 55 years old, and when I first heard this I could not believe this. In my youth things were just the other way around. But after looking into this I am convinced that there is truth to this. The babyboomers have produced a sexually completely warped culture, wherein the good and decent young men and women suffer and the bad and wicked prosper. Here is my suggestion: I have seen at least FOUR young men in my direct environment solve this problem succesfully by looking for a wife outside the West. In Africa, Asia and Latin America. All found a suitable, tradionally thinking young woman. All have married, all seem to live a stable traditional marriage. They seem very happy and I am happy for them. When you cannot find a suitable woman in the US perhaps this a way to go. It is not the best solution, but it is certainly better than going down on the road of decadence which will end in despair and losing the most beautiful part of your being.
Perhaps this might help. Anyway I deeply sympathize with good, young men suffering this way, and I hate the villains in Hollywood and the media who make money on their misery.”
ThinkingHousewife has criticized Sarah Palin as a right-liberal even — http://www.thinkinghousewife.com/wp/2010/04/the-conservative-feminist-sisterhood/
And here is MarkyMarks thoughts http://markymarksthoughts.blogspot.com/2009/11/thinking-housewife-nails-it.html
Here is from CassyFiano
”The PUA types like to label men as alphas (guys who just use women for sex and dump them when they feel like it) and betas (guys who actually commit to women and support them. This is completely bass-ackwards. Most alpha-males as descibed by PUA are usually immature punks, and any real manly-man would work his ass off to support the woman he loves. The author claims chivalry does nothing to impress the woman, just her parents. ”
After the West collapses society will be builded up from the ground. And yes abortion will always be legal. But it will be safe and rare instead of the 50 to 70 million out of control that is has been. And no traditional marriage cannot accept anything but a man and a woman. I say let’s create a new union for homosexuals instead.
One of the major reasons why I don’t accept ‘game’ for the development of society is because of it’s biological reductionism and inhuman nature at times. I think it’s best for ‘game’ to be used only now due to the decadence of society.
Biocon versus Socialcon — http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/013980.html
You seem to be messing up traditional (in the old sense) versus traditional (in the right/truth sense) as well. Even the SocialPathologist whom accepts game doesn’t understand this — http://socialpathology.blogspot.com/2010/03/traditionalism-and-conservatism-old-vs.html
Here is Lawrence Auster on Islam talking about right liberals — http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/017079.html
You messed up right liberals and conservatives. Right liberals believe in the universal notion of individual rights and equality. Which is infected with social liberalism.
When you attack Sarah Palin you are not attacking a conservative. Conservatism (in the truth/right sense) has been so marginalized that they have been infected with right liberals (social liberalism) and neoconservatism in some cases.
And maybe that’s why you see right liberals popping up in genuily conservative websites.
It was bizarre. Mark explicitly stated his thought processes. And his female blogging partner consistently misinterpreted them.
Third time lucky for a very entertaining writer – i hope.
BEST rationalization hamster analogy EVER. period.
Man: I’m not interested in you.
Woman: What are you trying to tell me? You’re afraid of commitment.
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