Where pretty lies perish.
Posted in Beta, Dating, Guy Rules, Relationships on Jul 31st, 2012
Beta male sexual market strategies are not always doomed to failure. They can work under certain conditions. The two primary scenarios in which the beta male strategy is workable (if not necessarily optimal) are: 1. As a “softening agent” to improve your attainability, or your “long term lover” potential, if your alpha male traits have … Read more
Posted in Dating, Game, Guy Rules, Ugly Truths on Jun 29th, 2012
A reader telegraphed the Chateau a link to a very interesting experiment that an intrepid blogger ran on OKCupid. He created ten fake profiles, five men and five women of increasing physical attractiveness, and measured the response rate he received over a four-month period. The results should be little surprise to regular guests of this … Read more
Posted in Goodbye America, Guy Rules, The Good Life, The Pleasure Principle on Jun 20th, 2012
Readers, Chateau Heartiste has gone mainstream! Check out my first submission to CNN’s blog, where I review a new book by two “relationship sexperts” who advise men seeking love to expand their pool of dating prospects by cultivating multiple concurrent sexual relationships with as many women as time and energy allow. *** Every man needs … Read more
Players and unaffiliated men who labor to pass on the Good Word of Game usually admonish neophytes that borderline uncomfortable numbers of approaches need to be made in order to become proficient at pickup. You’ve got to get out there and talk to more women than you would normally do in the course of a … Read more
Posted in Guy Rules, Love, Relationships, Self-aggrandizement, The Id Monster on Jun 7th, 2012
Beware the blessings of gratification. The relationship. The long-term relationship. The Holy Grail for some. Purgatory for others. Serene limbo for most. The relationship — aka marriage, when in its most loathsome permutation — is supposed to be the culmination of romantic transcendence. It moves lovers beyond lust into the realm of silent covalent bond. … Read more
Posted in Game, Girls, Guy Rules, Inner Beauty, Relationships on Jun 1st, 2012
To praise, or not to praise? “seeking truth” asks: The transition from sleeping often with women of assorted beauty and quality, over the past 8 years, to recently establishing a longer-term serious relationship with what I consider quite a valuable women is an interesting dilemma. Clearly there are long-term issues to excessively praising a woman, … Read more
Posted in Feminist Idiocy, Guy Rules, The Id Monster, Ugly Truths on May 30th, 2012
It’s a regular trope of feminists that male sexists are bitter, beta male losers. “Oh, you hate women because you suck with them”, and vice versa. It’s very comforting to feminists — actually, to all women — to believe that only resentful losers they don’t find attractive would harbor sexist thoughts. It’s very discomforting to … Read more
Posted in Biomechanics is God, Guy Rules, Self-aggrandizement, Status Is King, The Id Monster, The Pleasure Principle on May 4th, 2012
Power has an effect on the brain almost identical to cocaine. More than a hundred years after noted historian Baron John Acton coined the phrase ‘power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely’ scientists claim the saying is biologically true. The feeling of power has been found to have a similar effect on the … Read more
Posted in Funny/Lolblogs, Guy Rules, Ugly Truths on Apr 27th, 2012
A wealth of experience with women will clue a man into the dissonance between a woman’s words and actions, and gradually lead him to discover that the woman’s word is the exact inverse of what she wishes you to presuppose it is: not a verbal descriptive but rather a psychological misdirection to lull the unsuspecting, … Read more
I was at a party and nearby two guys who seemed to have just met that night (introduced through a mutual friend, probably) were talking to each other. One was taller than the other, and dressed more stylishly. Both of them, near as I can judge these things, were about equally good-looking and the same … Read more
