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Category Archives: Dating
Why Do Wives Nag?
From the Chateau: …wives nag because their husbands have turned beta. Less succinctly, their husbands have become weak, enfeebled, grasping, defensive, sycophantic, solicitous “yes dear” yes-men. Strong men — alphas, you bet — almost never elicit the nagging response from … Continue reading
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Analyzing Penelope Trunk
From the Chateau: Penelope Trunk. For some reason, she gives fellow aspie and open borders ivory tower bubbleboys chubbies, who can’t stop linking to her blog, (comments by “Dave” and “Anotherphil” are illuminating). But Chateau Heartiste called this broad out … Continue reading
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Flipping The Script
From the Chateau: Flipping the script works. It works because women can’t resist a man who won’t tidily play by the established, and oh so boring, rules. A coy man — a man who is as circumspect and judgmental and … Continue reading
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High Sexual Market Value Chicks Dig Mass Murderers
From the Chateau: Any beta males reading this post ought to grab a Kleenex, because there is no God and your romantic ideals are laughable. James Holmes, the creepy-looking mass murderer who killed 12 and injured 70 in an Aurora, … Continue reading
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Help Women Imagine You’re The Killer They Want You To Be
From the Chateau: Chicks dig jerks. Chicks deeply dig stone cold killer jerks. Chicks secretly want you to be the killer of their sexual fantasies. Reader Dirty Old Man provides context, I got a shit test from a 20 something … Continue reading
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What Kind Of Women Cheat?
Study: Women who wear the pants in the relationship are more likely to cheat: The imbalance of power in the primary relationship has been associated with infidelity. Edwards and Booth (1976) found that wives who reported that they “get their … Continue reading
When A GF Talks About Her Exes
From Chateau Heartiste: This is bad news. This woman is disrespecting him, no two ways about it. Girlfriends who love you will rarely, if ever, talk about exes or, worse, text exes. Nor will they use exes as clubs to … Continue reading
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Power In Relationships
From Chateau Heartiste: When privy to the secretive, gated world of women, you learn that the idea of relationship leverage — aka “having hand” — is as well-known and accepted among women as it is among pickup artists and naturals. … Continue reading
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Fifty Shades Of Grey
From Chateau Heartiste: Pulp romance and sex novels like Fifty Shades of Grey are the female equivalent of male visual pornography; let there be no doubt, these books are female porn, as salacious and titillating for women as close-up jackhammering … Continue reading
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When Beta Males Go On A Shooting Spree
From Chateau Heartiste: If you can’t get laid at a nursing school with probably the most favorable female-male ratio on the planet, you have serious issues to work out. Half of game is just being where the women are, and … Continue reading
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