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I need to learn how to stop hating women so much. I know that I have to accept them and respect them to form a genuine bond with them, but I have difficulty because I hate them extremely for the game they make us play.
How do you come to look at them positively? I only see them as assholes I want to have sex with.
Howdy again Eerie,
This isn't an easy task, given that women often treat us like shit if we act like AFCs around them. I know I was severely plagued by anger towards women for decades of my life. Still, you don't necessarily need to become a "feminist" to love women, since a lot of feminists don't like men much. You just need to start learning how to put yourself into a woman's shoes more, and give her some slack for being an imperfect human being, just like you are.
Here's an important point to remember... it's not the case that women are really playing a "game", like monopoly, with a bunch of f*cked-up rules they make us play. Instead, they are DANCING with men. Dances don't have so many rules (especially once you get good), but they do have patterns. Dances are fun, flowing and dynamic, which are all characteristics that women fit naturally with. Ever noticed that women frickin' LOVE to dance? Well, there's a reason... and they "dance" with men all the time in their lives, even if men don't notice it. This is why "game" isn't so much about rules as it is about "flow" and "genuine masculine character" and "easy charm". Once you get this you'll find women a lot more fun to interact with.
I'd suggest you do the following exercise once a day for a week or two:
- Identify a behavior that you HATE that women act out.
- Identify the behaviors IN YOU that tend to bring out women's bad behaviors.
- Try to put yourself in the woman's shoes, and imagine "if I were her, why would [behavior X] make her react with [behavior Y].
- Rethink the situation: if you were her, would it really mean you were an asshole if you responded with behavior Y to a man's behavior X?
- Finally, think of a new behavior Z that you could try out that might avoid a woman's responding with Y and responding with A instead.
- Try the new behavior Z when you get a chance and see what happens.
Do this with one nasty female behavior per day, until you've run through the major ones that drive you up the wall. Once you can see the REASONS women have for doing what they do, and once you see the ALTERNATIVES that you have to your own unproductive behavior, you can start to get out of the anger-against-women frame and into the how-can-I-solve-this-problem frame, which is much more productive and life-enhancing for you.
Try it and see how it works, and report back...
Cheers, ~50