Good news, everyone! Another Red Piller has made another terrible short film!
“Naughty Nomad,” a Red Pill travel writer who claims to be known as “The Indiana Jones of Pussy,” has produced a not-quite nine-minute film called I Can Do Better. As he explains it on his website, the little drama “explores themes like hypergamy, female entitlement and spinsterhood.” So if you’re into all that you are in luck!
I don’t want to spoil anything, but rest assured that in the film an old woman apparently sort of regrets rejecting some dudes back when she was younger.
The film isn’t as technically, er, challenged as Davis Aurini’s masterpiece Lust in the Time of Heartache, nor does it include any play-fighting ninjas in fedoras and ill-fitting suits. But it makes up for these deficiencies with some awesomely inept acting — and a script that seems to have come straight from the Red Pill subreddit.
In the film, set in the present day, a young woman named Sonia with an assortment of hair styles rejects a succession of suitors, declaring each time that she could “do better.” (Evidently she is supposed to be aging, as everyone knows that young women with shoulder-length black hair eventually mature into women with long blonde hair.)
In the final scene, also seemingly set in the present day, Sonia has suddenly been transformed into an old woman. But she’s up to her old tricks, rejecting a similarly old suitor because she still thinks she can “do better.” At least that’s what she tells her son and his family, who are waiting in her apartment to drink coffee and eat cookies with her.
But then they suddenly vanish. See, they were imaginary, because no woman who rejects dudes that other people think they should be grateful to date can ever hope to have children.
Apparently this is supposed to be a sad ending, at least for her, even though she gets to eat all of the cookies herself.
There is also a Russian version of the film, in case you were wondering, “hey, is there a Russian version of this film?” Though I’m not sure why you would be wondering that, frankly.
H/T — TheBluePill subreddit
So funny 🙂
One thing I don’t get is why these people are so obsessed with telling other people how to live their lives. Worse, why some people obsess about whole groups of people like WOMEN! as if they constituted monoliths instead of a heterogenous entities made up of individuals who span a spectrum of whatever quality, interest, focus, etc.
Why don’t they just focus on getting their own life together?!! If their life is together, why don’t they just enjoy it?!!
There are times I focus on other people’s behavior, but it is at the individual level to people who have a direct effect on me, like some controlling idiot at work or a stupid neighbor creating a problem on my street. Then, I consider the individual and how to handle it.
I don’t obsess about “those people” (whatever category “those people” are – like coworkers or neighbors, lol).
I know it’s been said elsewhere on this site, but I feel it needs to be said again: these dudes should focus on getting their situation in order, asking themselves why they have the problems they do, doing some self-evaluation about why their lives are working. Stop telling WOMEN! how they are supposed to act as if you know what you’re talking about.
/rantoff
@weirwoodtreehugger:
Well, these dudes only ever talk to young assholes who think older women are icky, or older assholes who want to prey on the inexperienced. No wonder they think women “hit the wall” while thinking men get more and more awesome with age.
@sparky
Literally the entire exercise is founded on the “biological ticking clock” that women have been exposed to since they were children. In fact, the “you can do better” (when not a self-esteem booster after getting out of an abusive relationship) and the “you-go-girlism” this guy opposes is pretty much a reaction to that narrative.
Society: “If you don’t settle for a man soon, you’ll be old and sad and alone forever.”
Women: “Screw that, I’m not going to settle for a miserable relationship to avoid some other misery. Who says being unmarried will be miserable, anyway?”
This guy: “Ah, but there’s a flaw with your reasoning. If you don’t settle for a man soon, you’ll be old and sad and alone forever.”
The only difference is that this guy is repeating the societal message in the vague hope that he’ll get laid more if women are afraid of ending up alone. Which is extremely odd considering he’s a sex tourist that thrives on one-night-stands and short-term relationships with no intentions to settle down.
Similar here. My mom says she’d remarry… IF he was rich, gave her all his money, didn’t try to interfere with her family, and went home before dinner every day. haha
My dad did marry someone a lot younger, but at a major price– other family members say she’s a pill addict with a lot of other confounding physical, emotional and familial issues. She needs him to support her addictions and keep a roof over her head. He needs her so he has someone to control, as pretty much everyone else he’s close to has hit the escape hatch, after being squeezed too hard, one too many times. She doesn’t work or do much household maintenance, either, apparently, so things are always falling down around their ears despite the fact that he makes what should be a decent middle-class income, even for a family– IF they were halfway competent and responsible.
But they’re not, so… chaos, squalor, et cetera.
I think my mom was pretty jealous at first, though she protested to the contrary– Wife #2 used to be The Other Woman, so it was understandable– but as time marches on, the spectacle has gotten too transparently pitiful for envy. Yeah, he’s gotten a much younger woman who blows all kinds of hot air about how wonderful he is in public… but he’s paying for it.
I’d rather watch Aurini’s magnum opus than this again. That film, despite stroke-inducing writing and editing, was occasionally hilarious and had that weird vibe of an idiot who can’t quite comprehend he’s not the smartest guy in the room (see also Guy Richie’s Revolver).
I Can Do Better (and as far as I can tell she easily could, with the guys on display here) is mostly just boring. It has that Birdemic feel of the actors not actually comprehending why their characters are saying their lines, but the editing is either so fucking slack I started getting American Sniper flashbacks (so I assume it’ll be up for Oscars next year), or seemingly random during the conversation scenes.
@ceebarks
The kids I know that are always at Mum and Dad’s place seem to think it’s a hotel, babysitting service or a bank. When my kids leave, I won’t be dreaming of them coming back to talk to me about a man – I’ll be thinking ALONE! FINALLY ALONE! and never wearing clothes past the front door again.
And if I got divorced (unlikely after 20 years) my poor husband would probably be heartbroken and more lonely than I would be. I mean, that’s how the manosphere gets recruits – all those men deeply unhappy about the women they don’t have, or the women they had that left. If it affected women the same way, surely we’d have our own forums where we talked about how men are the most responsible teenagers in the house, and urge them to marry the first woman that comes along. But it doesn’t exist, because it’s men who need women to be vulnerable to (because other men might make fun of them).
Wouldn’t the “Indiana Jones of Pussy” basically be like a rapist? I love to nostalgia watch me some Indy but Dude was all about wrecking historic sites to steal artifacts and bring them back to his museum in another country.
Just speaking personally here, there’s nobody I regret turning down, though there’s at least one I regret NOT turning down.
And, yeah, I’m getting old. With a lovely man (and cats).
ha!
Yeah, I’ve seen the Mom/Dad as 24/7 drop-in daycare/hotel/ATM thing, too. So unhealthy. I guess it can be hard to get that dance of interdependence right. Personally, probably like most people, I’m hoping for something between booting them out at 18 and never seeing or hearing from them again, and being the unpaid nanny/landlady/loan officer til the day I die.
My own family leans pretty hard toward the “independence uber alles” mindset, for a lot of reasons. But I know some that lean more toward something that sometimes strikes me as a lot more… entwined. Usually in a positive way, but sometimes in a way that makes me wince a little when observing it. People with a lot of energy and good hearts can get themselves into some complicated family situations that aren’t necessarily sustainable, but others come to rely on them, so it feels bad to divest themselves of their extra duties and risk hurting the relationship, even though they’ve gone above and beyond the call of duty for years, etc…
At some level, you’d hope that the folks relying on these givers would kind of monitor the situation and sense that it’s becoming strained w/o having to be told explicitly that they’re overstepping. But it isn’t reasonable to expect people to be mind-readers, either.
So yeah, it’s complicated, but I guess that’s what boundaries are about. 😀
I want to know why he thinks old people are alone unless they have family?
A friend’s mom is over 90 and after visiting with her children and grand-kids one time she was all, “Well, you can leave at any time, but I have polka at 5pm tonight. So, see ya!” I hear she dances up a storm. 🙂
Translation: Fears women due to the known death traps in their vaginas. Dares to go there because of the tiny golden statues hidden inside.
I wonder if these guys have ever been in a relationship with someone who did not meet their standards in some major ways. Maybe they just weren’t very attracted to her. Maybe she had values that were vastly different from theirs. Maybe she wasn’t doing the things that he wanted from a relationship. I’ve dated a guy like that before. It lasted for a while, actually. He wasn’t a bad guy. He just was not right for me, and marrying him would have been a mistake. Marriage and relationships aren’t a goal that you have to meet, no matter whom you choose. It’s the person whom you should want, not the label or the institution.
Of course, I realize that these guys have likely been in dissatisfying relationships with women because they just wanted to date someone, and they are probably happy now that they didn’t marry those women. They’re just incapable of emphasizing with women who’ve gone through the same thing.
Just for the record, I’m one of those middle-aged fossils, and I can tell you how the film ends:
1. Rosebud is the name of my cat.
2. I can see irritating people.
Much better to be single than shackled to a douche bag. Much better to be childless than expose my children to an awful, awful father. Your threats are pretty pathetic.
@ceebarks
I’d lost both of my parents by 23, but before they died, I saw them weekly. My Dad told me he looked forward to me moving out (as the baby) because then he could “hang my dick from a light fitting if I wanted”. Most parents do want to be alone at some time – we’re not just Mummies and Daddies – we had a life before and without our kids.
These red pillers seem to think the only thing we women have to do to occupy us is children, and most of us have careers and hobbies. It’s not as if as single women we had nothing to do prior to children. And frankly, I would hate to limit my scope only to babies. Cats are much better – they can be cuddled, but also don’t impale themselves on the nearest pair of scissors on the coffee table.
And apparently, you develop the magical ability to post in the midst of a comment.
Exactly! Much better to be unmarried forever than married to someone whom you despise or even just being stuck sharing your life someone whom you do not love.
Where I was heading, while WP was busy going POST POST POSTITY POST! on my above comments, was that it’s pretty arrogant of this guy to think women’s lives are going to exactly follow his script, and that he can predict how it’s all going to turn out. This isn’t the butterfly effect – just because you reject a few guys in college, it doesn’t follow that you’re going to find yourself in an empty apartment, knitting afghans in front of Golden Girl reruns at 57. Similarly, agreeing to let a hateful assfedora stick his dick in you at 22 isn’t going to turn your life into unicorns and rainbows. More likely, the exact opposite.
I am so shocked that men who apparently build their entire lives around sex and dating think that a woman who does not eventually settle down must be living an empty life. So very shocked.
Seriously though, there should be an acronym for this sort of thing. YACOP? Yet Another Case Of Projection?
@ceebarks
Me too. The dirty little secret of parenthood is that, no matter how much you might want and adore and love your kids, no matter how much you love every sticky, silly, jammy, huggy moment with them, there’s a part of you that misses your single life very much and can’t wait to get that independence back again. That’s heresy to the guys who fantasize about having a woman orbit around them, and only them, forever.
So that first guy with the guitar on his back is apparently the filmmaker himself.
And when Sonia’s friend comes up to Sonia and talks about how awesome he is and how many girls are into him, I wonder if there is going to be a companion film exploring *his* hypergamy and entitlement and spinsterhood or whatever. Because after all, he could have any of them but maybe they are too short or too old or not bad enough at acting??
How many cookies is *he* going get when he’s old?
Honestly, this isn’t even convincing? Like, seriously? “Oh no the poor old lady never settled down and now lives in a nice flat eating cookies and she’s got a nice casual male friendly neighbour”…like…seriously, that’s not the nightmare these redpillers think it is.
Wouldn’t being the “Indiana Jones of Pussy” basically make him Marcus Brody’s procurer?
Is Sallah his wingman? Are women constantly leaving him for Belloq? Or would he be shocked to be cock blocked by Belloq? When he snapped his Staff of Ra, did it hurt? Herpes! Why did it have to be herpes?
(Can’t bring myself to watch the video, so making my own entertainment).
This tired old horsepucky wasn’t new back in 1863 when Stephen Foster was writing songs about it: http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/stephen-foster/014880.HTM
1. A lady tossed her curls
At all who came to woo;
She laughed to scorn the vows,
From hearts though false or true,
While merily she sang;
And cared all day for naught,
There are plenty of fish in the sea
As good as ever were caught.
2. Upon their lightning wings
The merry years did glide,
A careless life she led,
And was not yet a bride;
Still as of old she sang
Though few to win her sought.
There are plenty of fish in the sea
As good as ever were caught.
3. At length the lady grew
Exceedingly alarmed,
For beaux had grown quite shy
Her face no longer charmed.
And now she sadly sings
The lesson time has taught,
There are plenty of fish in the sea
As good as ever were caught.
@Sir B.R. III
“Herpes, why did it have to be Herpes!”
I laughed, because herpetology is legit the study of amphibians and reptiles, so that’s kind of puntastic! In addition to kind of relevant.
Thanks, good sir. Genius!