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
Grumpy: I don’t think there is – it was the INEVITABILITY of it that this man had judged, based on the biographical detail I had given him. Also White Knight was obviously being used as a pejorative. But yes (like SJW) really there is no shame in a man seeking to make a woman feel safer, I would hope that my kids DO do that if it becomes necessary.
Every MRA ever: “How dare a woman get married – turning that alpha into a beta! How dare a woman not get married – spinster! How dare a woman fall pregnant – why aren’t you on the pill! How dare a woman have an abortion – murderer! How dare a woman have children – forcing the poor man to raise it or pay child support! How dare a woman not have children – what are you even for if not motherhood! How dare a woman date an older man – gold digger! How dare a woman date a younger man – he deserves a woman who hasn’t hit the wall! How dare a woman have sex – s**t s**t s**t! How dare a woman not have sex – frigid prude!” etc…
I do seriously wish I could pin an MRA down and really ask them what a woman’s role in the world is, seriously, give me a straight, reasonably achievable reply where any two requirements are not mutually exclusive.
Men’s “Child Support is Misandry!” Rights Advocates dispensing parenting advice. How cute.
WWTH
I read this bit, and I got excited because I thought you were talking about women getting married to women. 😐
As for the topic at hand: I actually was the person who dated whoever was nice to her (in high school). I learned my lesson rather quickly.
I was really desperate for positive attention from boys my own age, having been picked on for being chubby most of my life (I have since learned to embrace my squish. I don’t always love my squish, but it’s part of me. :3), so whenever someone gave me the slightest bit of positive attention, I would fall head-over-heels for them.
It never went well. At all. Each relationship fell apart at the slightest breeze, because we just weren’t compatible and we were essentially forcing it.
(Except for the last relationship I was in. It lasted five years, and it was lovely, but it was mostly LDR, and eventually we just didn’t have time for each other. I couldn’t handle it, and we agreed it was best to just cut it off, though we also agreed that if we were ever in a better position, we weren’t against the idea of starting over. I think this relationship was more successful because we’d been friends for a while first, and gotten to know each other first.)
So, I don’t understand why these men seem to think that rushing into a relationship is such a good idea. They think the simplest nice deed will unlock something in a woman. Take it from me, RPers, that shit doesn’t work. Being nice to a person won’t do shit if they’re not attracted to you or you’re not compatible. If things go south, move on. Don’t dwell on it forever. Sure, look back and think about what went wrong and try to gain some introspective (and no, ‘It’s obviously HER fault!’ isn’t always the answer).
I’m single now, and while I do find myself wishing for a partner on occasion, I’m willing to wait until the right person comes along. Because I want someone who wants me, and someone who I want just as much, if not more, back.
And I’ll be DAMNED if it’s one of these self-righteous, hypocritical, self-serving bags of road apples. Because I can do better.
Being happy without a man in her life is probably the most vicious form of misandry a woman can commit.
Besides being a long, drawn-out 8 plus minute video of something that can be simply summarised as a typical manosphere “hypergamous woman grows into old cat lady”… it really seems to be some sick ‘karma’ fantasy toward a person who simply is simply living their own life and making their own choices and revelling in how those choices turn out in the end.
A lot of manosphere types accuse feminism of trying to convince men of desiring women they deem undesirable while this video is doing exactly the same thing in reverse.
I’ve said this before, but I really think part of this is that redpillers think men (in general) are so much better in all ways than women that a woman turning a man down is horrible, because she is so much less valuable than he is. Turning down a man is uppity.
Kirbywarp, that’s exactly how I saw it too. I knew what they were going for, but it didn’t come across at all. Sonya seemed depressed even from the start, and definitely afraid of any sort of intimacy. I suspect this was a complete accident, and solely due to her lack of acting ability. (Well, also due to the tortured dialogue)
The stereotypical rejections reminded me of Seinfeld (“She smelled like soup!” etc). Except not funny.
I didn’t even catch on that her family at the end was imaginary, because she seemed about as happy to see them as she was ever happy to see anybody, which fit with her overall flat personality. When they disappeared she seemed pretty much the same, emotionally. Like… start her at the top and let’s watch her fall, at least. Have a character arc. Start somewhere, end somewhere else. Nope, she seemed totally fine being on her own (happy or not, it seemed to be exactly what she wanted – so what’s the point???)
There was nothing at stake for her at all through the ‘film’, and she never went anywhere emotionally, and she did not die alone with cats eating her face – a huge disappointment, esp. since that was the only reason I hung on til the end. Pacing was deadeningly slow, the overall tone as flat, and the characters were barely people who had no point of view. It’s not even fun to MST, for chrissakes. Total flatline. No there there.
Stopping myself before I end up doing a rewrite and/or an actual critique. It was so boring it actually made me angry. Poor storytelling, dude.
/end director rant
Random: does anyone else see “RPer” and think “role player, no wait, context it must be red pill shit”?
ALSO ALSO ALSO, all the other women in the film were DISAGREEING WITH HER. So how this reinforces the idea that women in general are hypergamous or entitled, when literally ONE WOMAN in the film was (supposedly) behaving this way is beyond me.
@Argenti – yup!
The commenters that said that men need marriage more than women are spot on. Both men and women benefit from the emotional support of a good spouse, but only men benefit from the institution of the committed relationship itself. Women usually contribute more to the day to day household chores than men, freeing up men to do more paid work, women usually contribute more childcare than men, freeing up men to take on more paid work, men usually get a social status boost from being a “family man”, women get demoted down to the status of being the “Mrs.”. In return, women (supposedly) get access to the men’s pay, but of course men get access to their wive’s pay as well.
As to the video, I agree that women who say they want to get married but are “so picky” that they find something wrong with every man are usually commitment-phobic. Sure, ending up alone when you dream of a family is sad, but shaming has helped no-one in the history of ever overcome anxiety.
Like the Manosphere’s intent is to help women. 9_9
Grandparents who feel “put out” by watching their grandkids for free really annoy me. I can understand the need for boundaries and a give and take, but barring abuse, helping your children should be forever. Especially since most new parents need free childcare to successfully set their families up. Childcare often costs more than the mortgage, I can’t wait to see how unaffordable it will be in 20 years.
Re hiccup cures: Mine is to drink water from the wrong side of the glass. You have to bend forward, and your chin will be inside the opening of the glass. It’s never failed me yet.
@Argenti – As someone who RPs with friends, yeah. I was confused for a second too.
Also, a little OT: I found out Monty Oum died today, and now I’m really sad. Poor guy was too good for this world, and way too young to go. He’ll be missed.
I’m afraid I couldn’t get past ‘Sonia’s’ friend in the first scene at the beach acting like an excited, little schoolgirl sucking and licking on a lollipop. WTF? These assholes aren’t very subtle are they? It looked like the whole thing was gonna take a turn for the worst and become a shitty amateur porno or something. Don’t think I missed much after that lol.
So that was… something.
My mom divorced my dad about 12 years ago. She remarried 5 years ago. Between that time she had no shortage of dates with men. Young men, Older men, successful men. One man who was extremely wealthy dated her for several months. He didn’t want a long term commitment just wanted to go on dates with her and they had a great time. One other man proposed and she initially said yes, but broke it off because she realized that the strong feelings she had wasn’t going to compensate for how utterly incompatible they were.
Honestly, seeing friends in their 20s dating looks a lot more difficult than her dating experience in her 40s. I never dated because I married my first boyfriend, which luckily enough turned out just fine :).
My mom and I are really close so talking about her dates was something that was natural for us.
I don’t think it ever occurs to these redpillers that maybe they have some ludicrously picky ideas themselves. They all seem to want a woman who is supermodel-looking, extremely subservient and submissive, pornstar-in-the-sack, willing to pop out babies on command, yet has no influence on their upbringing (lest she turn them against Dad). Additionally, she should have no independent ideas or thoughts of her own, no interest in or interaction with any other men (because hypergamy!), no strong ties to her own family, no personal ambition or goals outside of babies, staying hot and sexually pleasing her man, etc, etc…
And yet they strenuously believe women are the picky ones. Riiiiiiiiight.
Well… the acting isn’t any worse than Birdemic.
“Grandparents who feel “put out” by watching their grandkids for free really annoy me.”
Eh, on one hand, Italian. On the other my most recent ex’s grandmother dumped her firstborn on her parents. So there’s probably a happy medium there? Like, my grandparents were fine watching us but it was a scheduled sort of thing, not “here’s your grandkid(s), I’m going out, bye!” — even my grandparents would’ve WTFed at that.
Oh, I know, I just thought it was a really ineffective way to try to make her look older (though the “old person” makeup at the end (for both her and her admirer) was so crappy I’m not sure they could have come up with anything better. The first time I watched this I didn’t even realize at first that it was the same woman; I just wondered why they all had slavic accents.
And it didn’t help that the world of the future looked identical to the world of today. Unless, maybe, the vanishing family was teleported ouf of her apartment? Or maybe they were holograms? Maybe the future will look exactly like today except that we’ll be able to visit our relatives holographically.
And the cinematography and sound were better. I mean, the sound wasn’t great, but it was still better.
It would have been great if everyone in the movie had been attacked by really bad exploding cgi birds about halfway through.
To be fair, though, that’s true of a lot of films.
@Johanna Roberts
I laughed, you win ten internets. All of them are full of cat .gifs.
Apart from the dating foreigners part, I’ve read that the hostile sexism of Japanese society generally is as good an explanation as any for the general reluctance of young Japanese women to marry and/or have children.
I feel like grandparents should help out… but it should be on their terms. Dumping the kids on them because childcare is expensive seems pretty exploitative to me.
Why do people expect childcare to be cheap? :/
This gets to me every time some nice progressive-minded person posts some facebook info-graphic going “OMG, I can’t believe daycare is more expensive than college tuition these days!” No shit! Of course it is! When was it not?! Even the most sheltered college freshman can wipe her own bum, nuke her own ramen, and generally even remember to look both ways before crossing the street. You can have 100 of them to each instructor. If one of them chokes on a random shiny object or glugs down a vat of solvent, it’s not the school’s fault. If one of them wanders out of a lecture hall on a fine Tuesday for no apparent reason and is never seen or heard from again, it’s also not the school’s fault.
Why do people think herding a bunch of anarchic under-5s should be dirt-cheap and the extended fam should fall all over themselves to do it in their spare time?! aaaahhhhh
*cue musical nervous breakdown*
(I’ve been hanginaroooound wipin’ buuuuums on the corner. I’ve been hanging around these small kids for WAY WAY WAY WAY TOO LONG)