Shamelessly stolen from Keoni’s piece.
Mike Cernovich had a fantastic post up a few days ago that is a must read for men and women. While he writes for men, I find that much of what he writes, when read between the lines (and directly) really applies to women as well. Mr. Cernovich writes about The Look:
I learned how to tell if a man was dead by looking in his eyes. When living in Thailand and Vietnam, you learn how to spot the look.
The look is what an old man gives when a short-haired harpy leads him down the streets of Vietnam. The man glances around to see smiling, feminine women everywhere. He may even see an older man with one of those smiling women.
“What’s taking you so long,” he hears from her shrill voice.
Slowly a realization hits. A man has wasted his life serving an ungrateful nag. He could have had so much more. His soul leaves him.
To which Hawaiian Libertarian adds:
The Look is easily recognizable to those of us who managed to avoid developing it. It is the look of defeat, despair, submission and resignation to a life of suffering in subservience and complete subjection to another’s will. We can see it everywhere in this Brave New World Order of inverted gender roles, decimated families and general societal dysfunction.
But Keoni takes it further. Mike’s post is about men and this look but Keoni’s post is important for men and women. As he explains:
While Mike’s post is focused on The Look in the men he witnessed following their masters down the streets in South East Asia, I’m virtually certain their is a certain corresponding Look in the eyes of their women masters leading them. It’s a look worse than the living death witnessed in their emasculated men’s face…it is the look of the bitter, contemptuous and perpetually unhappy shrew.
When women assume a leadership position over men, it hardens them. But the polarity of natural intersex attraction is based off of opposites complementing each other. Soft woman and hard man are the natural order. Hard woman and soft man is most unnatural…and the unnatural state is what causes the development of “The Look” in both sexes.
For rest assured, accompanying every man with The Look of living death, is a woman with The Look of “resting bitch-face.”
For men, while still extremely difficult, there is no better time to understand how and why to avoid living this hell. I highly recommend reading the following posts as regards this:
They Can’t Hear You – Keoni Galt
Live to avoid “The Look” – Vox Day
For women, Mike mentions in his article:
90% of men are miserable. 99% of women are miserable.
Don’t be in that 99%. Don’t be that “bitter, contemptuous, and perpetually unhappy shrew.” Now, some might be thinking, I’m not that bad. I might do this some, but it’s not terrible. Even if if your behavior isn’t that bad, it’s still bad. Stop it. There is no reason to be these things. Understand that it is not up to your husband to make you happy. That is all on you. You will never, ever reach that 1% depending on someone else for your happiness. Learn to find it for yourself and start by looking at how you treat others, most especially your husband.
For you single women, find this happiness. Men in that 10%, those that you will be most attracted to, will be looking for you.
On the Rock 
An unbelievably good article. Highlights:
The odds are against you.
This is true.
The system wants you to live an unhappy life.
This isn’t true. The “system” doesn’t even know you exist. You make your own way. Or you don’t. It’s Darwinian. Nature isn’t “against you”. It’s just doesn’t care one bit.
No one will ever appreciate you. Deal with it.
This isn’t true, either. People appreciate you as much as you appreciate yourself.
becoming happy requires you to take action.
Yes. Yes. And Yes. Time is short. Life is only happy when it has urgency and discipline.
People love being “who they are,” as that requires them to take no effort to change. Avoid those people like the plague, as they are diseased of the mind.
I wouldn’t say “avoid” these people. Just be of strong mind and don’t care what they say or do. Soon, they will avoid you. Avoiding them means they own you. Rather, ignore the behavior, love the person.
The best strategy to find quality people is to become one yourself while ruthlessly cutting out toxic people, users, and manipulators.
Yes to the first part. I don’t think you need to cut out losers; they soon avoid you when you demand better of them.
Relationship books tell you to listen to your woman’s complaints without doing any mansplaining (that is, helping her solve problems). That’s bullshit. (Better yet, do not allow a woman who complains about nonsense into your life at all.)
Yes to the first part. But a man should be strong-willed enough to shut a complaining woman down.
A man’s prime isn’t until his 30s. A woman’s prime is in her mid-20s. Getting married while you’re young to a woman your own age has a 99% chance of causing you to lose your soul.
I disagree here. I was married in our 20’s and have no issues. It’s merely critical that a man marries religious, is of higher status, and dominates the relationship.
Fear is what’s stopping you from living the life you’ve always desired. Know your worth, increase your standards.
Yes.
Nature isn’t “against you”.
He isn’t talking about Nature. He’s talking about our leading system of society and government. Those that currently control the “Narrative”.
I wouldn’t say “avoid” these people.
I don’t think you need to cut out losers
But a man should be strong-willed enough to shut a complaining woman down.
For some men this would be true, for many others, it’s not. They would need to avoid these people just as they would any other kind of temptation.
I disagree here. I was married in our 20’s and have no issues. It’s merely critical that a man marries religious, is of higher status, and dominates the relationship.
I think what you describe here is in the 1%.
He isn’t talking about Nature.
I’m referring to his: “The system wants you to live an unhappy life.”
My point: There is no “system”. Nobody is in charge. There is no agenda. Yes the laws are unfair. Always have been. But nobody is trying to make anyone “unhappy”. That’s victim mentality, untrue, and a dangerous mindset.
I think what you describe here is in the 1%
If so, that’s sad, since all three are a choice every single man has.
And also, if true, women (and men) have become very desperate. Alone isn’t so bad!
Thanks for the linkage, Stingray, feel free to steal from me anytime.
” There is no “system”. Nobody is in charge. There is no agenda. Yes the laws are unfair. Always have been. But nobody is trying to make anyone “unhappy”. “
Thanks for the laughs.
“The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that he doesn’t exist.”
There is no “system”. Nobody is in charge. There is no agenda. Yes the laws are unfair. Always have been. But nobody is trying to make anyone “unhappy”
I disagree completely. There are people in charge and they are fighting whole heartedly to stay there. Just look at Twitter and it’s new Trust and Safety Council. It’s one part of the larger system. They certainly are trying to make people unhappy with the doxxing and fighting for people to lose their jobs.
That’s victim mentality, untrue, and a dangerous mindset.
Victim mentality is using one’s victimhood as a status marker. Keoni and Cernovich are pointing out observations and actively working to buck the system. They are not just wallowing in it. And they are far from being alone in this endeavor.
Thanks, Keoni. I appreciate it.
There are people in charge and they are fighting whole heartedly to stay there.
Of course. They care about themselves. Certainly not you or I. They are individual actors working within the system to get power for themselves.
Just look at Twitter and it’s new Trust and Safety Council
No, this Council don’t care if you are happy or not. They don’t even know who you are. They just want power. Like a gator, they will eat you if you get in their way. But they don’t care about you, personally. They will eat anybody, even their own. No victims. Only predators and prey. The intelligent man stops seeing himself as a victim of the system and learns to understand and overcome it. In Twitter’s case, he just boycotts it.
Victim mentality is using one’s victimhood as a status marker.
Victim mentality is thinking that one is a “victim” when the rules of a fight are unfair. Well, there are no rules. Nobody cares. Winning is the only thing.