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Perspicacious and numerate commenter “St” writes in response to this post about Shakespeare having his male characters utter fewer words than their romantic female counterparts, CH, I hope you realize that 101/155 = 65.1% Which is disturbingly close (1.6%) to the 2/3 male-to-female text communication ratio you advise. If that’s not another exogenous vindication of […]

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Via The League of Extraordinary Sadists comes another study concluding that diversity is incompatible with a sense of community. Community psychologists are interested in creating contexts that promote both respect for diversity and sense of community. However, recent theoretical and empirical work has uncovered a community-diversity dialectic wherein the contextual conditions that foster respect for […]

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Romeo Had Game

A dataslut at FiveThirtyEight tallied the lines each pair of characters spoke to each other and found that Romeo was following Poon Commandment V . Juliet speaks 155 lines to him, and he speaks only 101 to her. His reticence toward Juliet is particularly inexcusable when you consider that Romeo spends more time talking than […]

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Robert Cialdini is an expert in psychological manipulation, i.e., goal-oriented communication. (Something we all do, more or less successfully, whether we are aware of our own machinations or not.) He wrote the seminal book Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion . What you may not know is that Cialdini was, in many respects, a founding father […]

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For those who don’t know, the Twitter feed @tinderfessions is a cornholecopia of pervy and depraved confessions of Tinder users, the Weimar era-approved app that allows people to quickly geolocate future husbands and wives for intimacy trial runs. 😆 If even half the stuff on Tinderfessions is true, the republic is hurtling towards its doom […]

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Women expertly wield the “loser” shiv against men they don’t like (or don’t find attractive) because they know — or at least their unconscious knows — that the insult sticks. A man’s SMV (sexual market value) is, in large part, a measure of his social status. Loser men simply don’t compete very well in the […]

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There is much hand-wringing by the hypocrati over the below-replacement fertility rates of overeducated, urban leftoid, credentialist suck-up, status whoring SWPLs. However will civilization carry on if our progressive snarkmeisters disappear down the sinkhole of Darwinian finality? Well, I’m here to tell you that Western civilization will carry on quite well, and certainly better than […]

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Continuing with our latest CH series exploring the historical records for choice bits of wisdom that would be the equivalent of PUA game and Heartistian theories of the sexual market today, reader Arbiter forwards this excerpt from a 1902 issue of Cosmopolitan Magazine (before it became a women’s rag. Rag. Heh.): The author explains the […]

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Game In Renaissance Europe

The Book of the Courtier , published in 1528 by Castiglione, dispenses courtship advice that will sound very familiar to modern practitioners of the crimson arts. [T]he book, whose subject is the proper behavior of men and women at the courts of Renaissance princes, was written by Baldassare Castiglione, an aristocrat, soldier and diplomat who […]

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Sexual Amorphism

The woman is on the left, the man on the right. Something strange is happening to men and women of the West. This can’t end well.

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