Once again, ❤science❤ has entered, stage right, as a supporting cast member of Chateau Heartiste’s magnum opus. Once again, you won’t be led astray if you embrace CH observations as your own. You could say there’s a Heartiste Rule in effect at this happy hurting ground: 80% of keen-eyed CH lessons drawn from field experience … Read more
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A survey of 670 North American white collar workers revealed who is the unhappiest (and happiest) of them all. According to the survey, the happiest workers are: Male 39 years old Married Have a household income between $150,000 and $200,000 Hold a senior management position Have one young child at home Have a wife who works part-time while … Read more
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New information has come to light which provides further support for the theory that Elliot Rodger was the practical equivalent of a male feminist who was pathologically introverted, romantically isolated, and who simply didn’t understand that men and women are psychologically different and require different courtship approaches. A family friend of the Rodger’s understood intuitively … Read more
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Women project their charisma-induced arousal onto men. Men project their visually-induced arousal onto women. And where the streams of these two projections meet, confusion and frustration with the seemingly strange behavior of the opposite sex emerge. Commenter AErickson perceptively observes, I have a little under 9% body fat, a good amount of lean muscle fiber, … Read more
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I’ve noticed a faddishness among so-called “red pill” men lately to assert with the cynical glee of a conspiracy theorist stumbling across doubleplussecret knowledge that only men with 8-10% body fat and Hollywood good looks are capable of pulling girls cold, and that any man who falls short of those physical dimensions ought to console … Read more
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Regular readers who are familiar with the long-running CH series cheekily titled “Chicks dig jerks” will fall deeply in love (or hate) with this study, which just touched down like an F5 tingle in the Provencal lap of the Chateau Lordship. Criminal offending as part of an alternative reproductive strategy: Investigating evolutionary hypotheses using Swedish … Read more
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Posted in Psy Ops, The Id Monster, Ugly Truths on Jun 17th, 2014
Personal impressions into the matter aside for the moment, social science examining the issue of sex differences in manipulation skill and proclivity to manipulate are scarce. But a recent study definitely fingers women as the more manipulative sex in at least one major life domain. Parental mate choice manipulation tactics: Exploring prevalence, sex and personality … Read more
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Commenter jack rips a page from Heartistian dark magic texts and presents his own mischievous thought experiment. I posed this question to my blue pill friends. Let’s say you’re going to die tomorrow. (Your wife/gf) doesn’t exist. You can have sex with one girl tonight as a grand finale to your life, but she will … Read more
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The goal of feminism is to remove all constraints on female sexuality while maximally restricting male sexuality. CH wrote the above not long ago to describe the purpose, in practice if not specifically elucidated in theory, of feminism. But what is the emotional impetus that motivates feminists? For that, we must dig deeper. Come out … Read more
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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 of … Read more
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