{"id":82224,"date":"2015-12-13T19:37:44","date_gmt":"2015-12-14T03:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=82224"},"modified":"2015-12-13T19:37:44","modified_gmt":"2015-12-14T03:37:44","slug":"roosh-10-things-i-learned-from-touring-the-american-midwest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=82224","title":{"rendered":"Roosh: 10 Things I Learned From Touring The American Midwest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.rooshv.com\/10-things-i-learned-from-touring-the-american-midwest\">Roosh writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>I did not see more than two gay couples in four days, and the gays I saw were not overtly flaming. It\u2019s almost as if I was in a homosexual free zone.<\/p>\n<p>People are incredibly nice<\/p>\n<p>While I receive more eye contact in a place like Poland, I received many more smiles here. In Oklahoma City, in the dead of night without anyone else around, a woman walking her dogs said \u201cHello\u201d to me, a gesture that I don\u2019t experience anywhere else. The evil part of me couldn\u2019t help but think that people this nice could be easily taken advantage of. Maybe we can convince them to do all sort of crazy things in the name of \u201cequality\u201d or their own \u201csafety.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Very high social trust with deep social networks<\/p>\n<p>Now I know why I\u2019m not a big hit among men in the Midwest: my cold approach game would get you quickly marked in your town and ostracized. The best strategy here is to have a lot of friends and date the women in your social circle. Without a social circle in the Midwest, you\u2019re a bit screwed when it comes to landing the best women, who get snapped up soon in college or even high school. If a girl in the Midwest is single past the age of 25, she likely has serious issues that make her an unsuitable mate. She\u2019ll relocate to DC or NYC to try for a Sex And The City lifestyle of experiencing a few rounds of alpha male cock before she has to go back home a broken woman, lamenting about her fun days in the big city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roosh writes: I did not see more than two gay couples in four days, and the gays I saw were not overtly flaming. It\u2019s almost as if I was in a homosexual free zone. 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