The charming Man Going His Own Way who calls himself Rex Patriarch has written up a short treatise entitled “Women Are Incapable of Love.” (He’s also posted a video by another MGTOWer making the same point, but we’ll just ignore that for now, because I didn’t bother to watch it.)
Anyway, here’s Rex’s argument, such as it is:
Look guys, women are like pets.
Do pets love you?
No, of course not but they do feel the warmth which is the love you may have for them. At a minimum you are their meal ticket. That in of itself is why they stick around.
Same same with women. As long as you are their meal ticket they “love” you but the very moment you can’t provide for them. The very moment they find a better deal, find some higher status.
Watch how fast that “love” goes out the window.
The reason being is it never was there to begin with. It was just something they were telling you to keep the goodies coming. Up until they could find something better. If they can.
The thing is men can love women all they want or none at all but don’t expect them to love you back in the same measure. They simply do not have the ability.
What’s interesting about this argument, insofar as anything about it is interesting, is that he’s not just, you know, wrong about women. He’s also wrong about pets.
Now, anyone who’s bonded with a pet certainly feels that their pet loves them back. (Or at least some pets do; I’m pretty sure the turtle my brother had as a kid didn’t really love anything other than worms.) Still, some skeptics insist that we’re just anthropomorphizing when we look at our pets and see love in their eyes.
But researchers are increasingly seeing harder-to-dismiss signs that animals may have emotions remarkably like our own — and that they can indeed feel love. By scanning the brains of dogs, Emory University neuroeconomics professor Gregory Berns has found that dogs and humans are alike in some key ways:
All in all, dogs and humans show striking similarities in the activity of an important brain region called the caudate nucleus. So, do dogs love us and miss us when we’re gone? The data strongly suggest they do. And, those data can further move humanity away from simplistic, reductionist, behaviorist explanations of animal behavior and animal emotions and also be used to protect dogs and other animals from being abused.
You can read more about his research, and what he sees as its implications, here.
More on animal emotions here and here.
You can also learn a lot about how animals — including the animals called humans — think and feel by just fucking paying attention to them and having a tiny bit of empathy. This is apparently a bit too much for some people to manage.
I am grateful that my pets have never tried to manipulate me sexually, because that would be weird.
You know, the life of many people would be easier if the MRAs got absorbed by the zoophilia movement. Would you be so good to share your insight on AVfM?
Yes. Yes, women do love men for who they are. Men love women for who they are. Your friends have had shitty relationships; or they are the source of the shittiness. Or both parties were. We really don’t know what happens in privacy between two people. But getting into a shitty relationship? That can happen sometimes when dealing with complex human beings.
Nope. Women have nothing to gain by undermining men. Again, we are talking about complex human beings here; some women are jerks and some men are jerks. But women, as a whole have nothing to gain by undermining men.
…I really am creeped out by including sexual manipulation in a discussion on pets. Uh, dude? The hell?
(ALSO I AM SLEEPING ON A MATTRESS IN A SPARE ROOM NOW YAAAAAY!)
idk. I had a dog (one that I was babysitting) hump my leg once. It was far less creepy than some of our trolls.
Yea mattresses!
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LBT, yay!
Congrats LBT! 🙂 Yay for housing!
Also ewwwww, misogyny and creepy troll.
“It is easier to love an animal than a woman, because an animal offers unconditional love, because they have nothing to lose.”
So, you wish women were entirely dependent on you and unable to consider alternative options. I congratulate you for at least being honest about being a shitty guy no discerning woman would want anything to do with.
If you think animals can’t manipulate people, you haven’t seen my mother constantly feeding a begging dog under the table. Dogs learn quickly what behaviors get them treats, and start doing them as often as possible; that includes being annoying if people have an habit of shutting them up with food.
Dogs and cats can get their own meals .Just like women can .However they tend to enjoy the companionship of humans.
Who is looking for a meal ticket ? The Elephant of the dog ?
American women are low class. All covered in tattoos, smoking, wearing pajamas half the time, dye jobs with roots showing for months, and a queen bee complex.
You came into a dead thread to share that little turd-nugget?
Well if having tatts and wearing jammies works to keep sleazebag loser men away, I’m all for it.
I know! And pajamas are comfortable.
Johnny definitely does not give me fever.
Tattoos: check
Smoker: check
Wearing pajamas half the time: check
Dye jobs with roots showing for months: uncheck, but I have short hair and that’s just as evil.
Queen bee complex: You do know that “queen bee syndrome” refers to the phenomenon in which some women in positions of authority treat female subordinates worse than male subordinates, right? How exactly is this a problem that men face? Anyway, uncheck.
Score: 3/5. Not bad.
Wait, I accidentally said that I have tattoos. X_X That is incorrect.
I am an American woman and I have no tattoos and don’t smoke and have no dye in my hair and do not wear pajamas outside the house (and I am outside the house more than half the time). But feel free to stay away from me anyway.
Uh-huh. Johnny, you’re every bit as inferior as you fear you are.
Yay, checklist game time!
Tattoos: check
Smoker: never
Wearing pajamas half the time: nope, cos it’s too flaming hot a lot of the time to wear anything in bed (does this make me some slutty mcslutster?)
Dye jobs with roots showing for months: no, only days. My hair wouldn’t have just roots showing that long, it grows a centimetre a month.
Queen bee complex: could be tricky since 1) I don’t think I’m an insect and 2) I’m not anybody’s boss and didn’t like it way back in the day when I was.
Also I’m not ‘murrican, so I suppose I don’t really exist anyway.
You’re doing low class wrong. You’re supposed to wear PJs in the daytime and sleep in the nude.
Trolls like Johnny are the worst because they make me want to start smoking again.
Sleeping in the nude’s low class?
You mean Mr K’s slumming?
Tattoos – Nope
Smoker – Nope
Pyjamas – I don’t even wear them to bed, so nope
Hair Dye – Yep, and I need to get my roots touched up soon too!
Queen bee – In high school? Yep, guilty. That was more than 20 years ago, though.
Y’know, nothing says “high class” quite like naming yourself after a character in a sitcom from the ’80’s.
And that sitcom not being The Cosby Show
And nothing says “I am totally oppressed, no really, it’s true” like saying “OMG there are people walking around being poorly groomed at me”.