But hard as it is to accept this reality, you must, because if you don’t you will do nothing short of destroy your life. Because whereas in the past a man’s sex drive is what drove him to become the best man he could be—providing for his family, protecting them, and ultimately building civilization—today it is your biggest weakness. Because while women no longer need you today, they’re not stupid enough to turn down any free help you’re willing to give them. And many know if they dangle the prospect of sex in front of you, you will provide them money, attention, and resources, essentially making you their part-time slave. But the kind of men that hold views like this hardly ever earn enough to ‘provide’ a decent life for anyone, let alone kids too. They expect their (imaginary) wife to work AND submit/defer to them in everything. And please don’t take the childish emotional route the majority of people do. Actually understand things as they are and discuss that. Offering information of no substance because your feelings are hurt is a waste of your time and everyone else's. So limit the time, money, and energy you invest in a girl until she proves she's actually into you and not using you.” Your hardwired biological programming is screaming at you to get girls, get laid, and inevitably start a family.

I was oscillating between 3 or 4 stars quite a bit during this book but content wise + the importance of it, coupled with that fact that this kind of information is not being dispersed in books much, I can sense it’s likely getting a 4. Yes, hateful body-shaming has no place, but Women think telling girls that being unhealthy is to be admired does? That’s EXACTLY what pandering gets you. A misrepresentation of reality. A lie to make you feel good in the moment while long term you only truly suffer. It’s just like how irresponsible people treat credit cards, “Don’t pay now, just pay later!” Get the validation you seek now and sweep the rest under the rug so you can suffer later. I do think the author's call to action, even if the means by which he got there took some turns, is valid: men who are desperately chasing women who are not interested in them should invest less time, money, and energy in doing so. Arguably any human is better served not throwing away their vitality in this way.If you ever paid attention to how girls talk amongst themselves you can definitely see how his tone in this book would upset them (as it’s not what they are used to). As far as the human race goes, we both need each other equally for procreation. Outside of that, there isn’t a single component of life & survival that men NEED women for. Not a single one.

Chapter 1: Briefly outlines the perspective many women in large cities who go out weekly and are active on social media have towards Men and dating. In short she has countless options, more than you can ever relate to or fathom. And because of that her personality, attention span, view + treatment of you, ability to connect meaningfully all suffer. While her expectations and ego rise. The narrative is “Only Women get bodied shamed”. That’s like saying only Women get bullied in school. And only Women should receive support for it. But hard as it is to accept this reality, you must, because if you don’t you will do nothing short of destroy your life. Because whereas in the past a man’s sex drive is what drove him to become the best man he could be - providing for his family, protecting them, and ultimately building civilization - today it is your biggest weakness. The books main point, that men need to focus on themselves and become the best they can be before settling/pursuing/being pursued by a woman, is a good and valid point and is well thought out. Instead of spending so much time and energy to chase women who don’t like you, invest in yourself and there will be women who want you. Well this is an obvious fact that can be articulated with a better language.Marie Curie? Do these men even have any idea of the service female scientists have done for us? Life wouldn’t be the same without them.

In this book, he speaks very candidly as if it’s a conversation amongst men. He’s direct and too the point. No sugar coating to protect anyone's feelings. It's filled with "statistics" interpreted with bent rhetoric explaining to men how this proves the world is unfair to them, how great it is for women, how stupidly women behave, how fundamentally useless women are "in the world of men". Its actual knowledge of history and contemporary culture is razor-thin. Chapter 6: The lies society tells women was the first bit of info I haven’t already contemplated before so that was interesting.That message is 99% (at the very least) targeted towards Women. Is it more about body-shaming or is it more about Women not wanting to be held accountable? Because if it’s truly about body-shaming and acceptance than Men must not experience the slightest bit of it (body-shaming) because they are NEVER told it’s “beautiful, strong, masculine or handsome”. And they never have been. It’s far more common for a group of girls to pander to one another, avoid confrontation/disagreements and in general to beat around the bush rather than speaking directly and to the point.