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Adam Schwarze, the GOP candidate for the US Senate in Minnesota, wants you to know that the birth control pill causes women to be attracted to “effeminate girly boys” instead of “alpha cavemen” like they should be. It doesn’t, but he wants you to know that anyway.
We’re taking a dive into the bizarre world of sigma male affirmations and the disturbing but also very silly “sigma male industrial complex” on YouTube. From the origins of the dubious sigma male concept in the manosphere to its current online popularity, I examine an assortment of the often ludicrous sigma male affirmation videos on YouTube, their claims, and the psychology behind them. I argue that while affirmations can work, they really only do when they are reasonable and believable, which sigma male affirmations are decidedly not.
This video deals with:
*The evolution of the self-aggrandizing “sigma male” concept from niche internet subculture to viral trend
*Fisking of popular sigma male affirmation videos, from dull to downright delusional
*The psychology behind affirmations: why realistic ones can work and grandiose ones backfire
*Breakdowns of sigma male metaphors, from “lone wolves” to “great white sharks among minnows”
*The appeal of the sigma male archetype to socially awkward men seeking a cool, aloof identity
Also: creepy ASMR-style affirmations, hypnotic “masculine frequencies”, and claims of “massively high sexual marketplace value”. The video also contains dumb jokes, and you get to see the interior of the We Hunted the Mammoth manor.
Sorry it’s taken me this long to post this video. I’m trying my best to get on a weekly schedule, which should become a bit easier as I get more videos under my belt.
Feel free to post ideas for future videos in the comments! And whatever else you want, as is WHTM tradition.
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I love the Purple Pill Debate subreddit because it is full to overflowing with the absolute worst takes on the whole man/woman thing. But the post I ran across today took bad takes to a new level.
Earlier this week, the Mars corporation set off another culture war skirmish by launching a new, all-female package of M&Ms as a way of showing some sort of candy-related solidarity with the women of the world. “We’re celebrating women who are flipping the status quo, transforming the world around them to make it a more colorful and welcoming place for all,” the company declared.
No, The Psychopathic Edge is not an unflattering nickname for the guitarist in U2. The guy who goes by this moniker is a pickup guru with several self-published books to his name and more than three times the number of Twitter followers than I have.
Bad news for Chads! According to one MGTOW Redditor, Chads should no longer be considered the ultimate males. Nope! It turns out that Chads — and alpha males in general — are obsessed with getting attention from women. Which makes them wimps, simps, and cucks, all rolled into a ball.
One favorite technique in the pickup artist’s toolbox is the “neg,” a sort of playful backhanded complement that’s very near an insult; it’s intended to amuse your date but also to dig a little into her self-esteem even as she laughs it off. “Great nails — are they real?” That’s the basic idea.
Brace yourself. The post I’m writing about today (which can also be found here) is kind of a doozy. Mostly because of its length; it’s 3500 words but seems even longer. I doubt that even one of the regulars on the MGTOW2 subreddit read it all through the end. But I did, so you’re going to have to suffer with me as we make our way through the thick underbrush of very bad prose.
Awful news for the Red Pill community: One of its members slipped up and said some nice things to one of the women he’s seeing — things that might actually make her feel a little better about herself. Now he’s terrified she might think he’s a beta or, even worse, some sort of simp.
The just-announced divorce of Bill and Melinda Gates has the boys of the MGTOW subreddit all riled up.