“We are Forerunners. Guardians of all that exists. The roots of the Galaxy have grown deep under our careful tending. Where there is life, the wisdom of our countless generations has saturated the soil. Our strength is a luminous sun, towards which all intelligence blossoms… And the impervious shelter, beneath which it has prospered.”

The cost of marriage

The ever-entertaining, ever-insightful Terrence Popp put up a video over at Redonkulas.com a while back that weighed up the expenses of being single versus married for the “average” American. The mathematics, as you will see, are brutal: For all that...

Accountability

Matt Forney’s latest featured post opened up a can of weapons-grade whoop-ass on a number of topics and people: Yesterday morning, I had a realization: I don’t want to be part of the manosphere anymore.  I remember the exact moment when it happened. I...

Individual thought patterns

[This post might take its name from one of the greatest and most important death metal albums ever produced, but it has no overarching theme or specific purpose. It’s just a catalog of thoughts and ideas stemming from a recent trip.] The Healing Road I love...

Hitting The Wall at 100mph

There was an article over at RoK a while back talking about how it is small-minded and venal to root for a beautiful but bitchy woman to get her comeuppance in the form of “hitting the wall”: In today’s world, The Wall can generally be summed up as the...

“Programming is hard…”

“… so we’ll make it easier specifically to attract more women to it! What a brain wave!” Yes, we know there aren’t enough women in tech. [Didact: According to what metric, exactly? Other than the author’s ridiculous view that men and...

Patience and perseverance

Perhaps the single most unnerving thing about taking your first doses of the red pill comes from seeing just how much of what you thought you knew, is completely wrong. No matter the age at which the Truth Hammer* smashes into your forehead, and you find yourself...

Gear up

If you’re just starting out with lifting properly, you might find yourself somewhat confused about the gear you need for lifting properly. And I don’t blame you on that front. What with the explosive growth of CrossFit over the last few years, the number...

“BANZAI, MOTHERF***ERS!!!”

A bit over a year ago I wrote a post about the nature and destructiveness of fear. For deep introverts, nothing is more effective at holding us back from becoming the men that we were meant to be. Nothing is more destructive to our normally unshakeable inner strength...

Now this, I would pay to see

UFC women’s bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey had an opportunity to run her mouth off a bit, and didn’t disappoint at all: Ronda Rousey thinks she could beat Cain Velasquez, so Floyd Mayweather should be no problem, right?  The UFC women’s...

Attitude

One of the first lessons that a novice learns when encountering the Manosphere is the concept of “masculine frame”. It is not a difficult idea to understand, at least in theory- you stand, walk, and talk with confidence and strength, you give off an air of...