Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Perhaps my primary complaint about women

I was dwelling on the past the other day, and a particular pattern over my lifetime struck me. To be clear, this isn't a relationship pattern. This a pattern that pertains more to how I respond to the initial flirtation and attempts at feeling me out that women try.

Particularly what I don't like is the assumption that I as a particular type of man who they might happen to like am somehow wasting a perfectly good life by not being what they what me to be. I've been subjected to multiple variants of comments (including in the comments section of this blog) to the effect that it's terrible to see such a good alpha male waste his life by being me.

If you know much about me from reading the blog, then you'll know that I'm not a fan of the alpha male label. One, because it's dumb to assign dog pack concepts to human. Two, because most guys I know who seek out the alpha male label do so for really dumb reasons. There are fake alphas doing it for pussy. There are guys who really want to be large and in charge. There are dude with unresolved shower rape issues from their time in on the varsity football team.

I don't see myself as an alpha male, and I object to the idea that I'm obliged to see being an alpha male as a worthy goal. I understand that most guys given the chance to have women call them alpha males would leap at the opportunity. Therein, for me, is half of the problem. What's the big deal about being a big deal if you sit around like a fourteen-year old girl really want to be a big deal? It's kind girlie and not very becoming of an actual man.

It's easy to tell that women are so used to men defining themselves as the pursuers of women that women struggle to process any other dynamic. The idea that a man wouldn't want to be an alpha male is deeply foreign to the average woman.

To be honest, you, as a woman, are well within your rights to want to have an alpha male in your life. I think it's lame, but I also think religion and politics are lame, and somehow society keeps chugging along despite my objections to those too.

Where it starts to piss me off is that I end up being the object of a lot of anger from women for not wanting to participate in the great alpha male game. There has been a clear consensus among the women I've known in my lifetime that there's something deeply wrong with how I play the game. To make the problem worse, they get very pissed that I refuse to play the game. It seems to be a high crime for a man to opt out of this bullshit, and most women are heavily insulted when they try to flirt with a guy and simply has no part of playing the alpha role that she wishes to cast him in.

Understand, I have had my fair share of women lash out physically at me for not playing along. We're not talking about women just being pissy about it. There are sore losers all over the world, so that's not my problem.

What bothers me most is the implication that I, as a man who has all the potential to fit within this obnoxious and highly objectified role of the alpha male, have not right to want to be anything else.

Women expect men who can reel women in to be out doing as much of it as they possibly can. And that in its own right is fine. The problem arises when they simply refuse to leave it at that.

Hey, if some other guy wants to be your dancing monkey alpha male, hooray for him. But don't make it my problem just because you think I would make a superb alpha male. So fucking what if I would? It's not my goddamned job to be whatever you feel I should be.

I get that the supply of men who can fit the objectified dominant role in a relationship is very low. I do not, however, consider it my fucking civic duty to make up for that by pretending to be what you want me to be just so you get a little tingle down in your girl parts.

I'm not required to be anything, and it amazes me how lacking in self-awareness women are when they start dropping shit like that on me. So what if I'd make a great alpha male? It might be a fuckin' tragedy for you, but it's just not something I want in my own life. Fuck that. That whole dynamic is obnoxious, and I have every right to chart my own path outside of the norms that women want me to conform to.

I just don't care enough about the well-being of your pussy to be bothered with being the man you think I should be.

6 comments:

  1. Interesting post. I tune into your blog on and off and identify with it i must say. To me (as an INTJ) you seem like an INTJ (Myers Briggs Personality Type) based on your statements including your disdain for social conventions.

    "This a pattern that pertains more to how I respond to the initial flirtation and attempts at feeling me out that women try."

    "It's easy to tell that women are so used to men defining themselves as the pursuers of women that women struggle to process any other dynamic."

    "I end up being the object of a lot of anger from women for not wanting to participate in the great alpha male game. "

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    1. Myers-Briggs is the astrology page of the psych world. People who take the test regularly produce new results when retaking after several months. It's junk science.

      I do however get what you're saying. I'm not someone who particularly buys into the system in any setting.

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  2. "Myers-Briggs is the astrology page of the psych world."

    I'm glad someone said it. Reducing human beings to 16 personalities is a bit of an oversimplification.

    Unfortunately, it seems to matter to a lot of people. During my brief tenure on OKC, a lot of female profiles insisted on listing their type, and a surprising portion listed types that would disqualify would-be suitors.

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    1. Myers-Briggs is popular for precisely the same reason that astrology predictions are popular: both are vague and largely life-affirming.

      When was the last time you saw an astrology page tell someone, "That lump? Well . . . you need to contact an estate attorney, because shit just got real."

      The worst part with M-B is that it has a low rate of repeatability across multiple tests. Last time I checked, repeatability is the basis of science.

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    2. Seraph, its hardly a new insight that women say one thing and do another - its not limited to temperament tests.

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    3. @gambino: I didn't really take away that idea from what Seraph said. I think it was more of a general lament over the stupidity of it than an expression of surprise.

      I think almost any guy who's this far into the discussion of gender, game, sex, etc is fully aware that getting played in the dumbest manner possible is part of the game.

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