"You Can't Argue a Woman Into Liking You"

You made your case like a lawyer. Stable job. Good guy. Ready for something real. All true. All irrelevant.

She weighed your points, nodded along, felt nothing — then fell hard for some tattooed bartender with a motorcycle and a gambling problem.

Logic is where attraction goes to die. The "22 Rules" work a level deeper, on the subconscious switches that decide within minutes whether you register as a MAN or as part of the furniture.

Stop presenting evidence. Start flipping switches.

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Looksmaxxing Goes Mainstream

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Well it's right as you say.
But I can understand the first part where you do it to gain social value, your job position, etc, but, when you are alone, talking with your wife, or alone talking with your friends, that mask goes off. I am more interested in the swap, in this change, and when it occurs, how do you manage, etc.

And after someone, like your wife knows who you are without that mask, she also know when you put that back.
If you wear the mask in your face forever, this mean you're informal when you have deep convestation or you do sex with your wife?
A man acting with a mask, will lose it's identiy, because He will be in mask mode, and so habit become routine.

My grandfather didn't had a mask.
My uncle does but it's just for the superficial level, then He gradually lose it.
My brother in law, doesn't have a mask.
Someone I know, have a mask, good manipulator, and I don't know about if He removes it in intimacy.

Please let us understand.
It will be good if you have sources or real life examples
I again encourage you to seek psychotherapy for this fixation you have with "masks"
 

"Stop Asking Your Friends What to Text Her"

Your buddy Dave has been single for three years and thinks "hey u up" is a valid strategy. Your other buddy Mike just got dumped and told you to "just be yourself."

You showed them her text. You asked them to decode the emoji. You drafted four responses and sent the screenshot to the group chat for a vote.

She's been waiting forty minutes.

Put the phone down. Stop crowdsourcing your love life. Type something that sounds like you. Hit send. Then go do literally anything else with your evening.

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I again encourage you to seek psychotherapy for this fixation you have with "masks"
Is not fixation but more understanding what a mask is, when to wear, when to remove.


 
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Is not fixation but more understanding what a mask is, when to wear, when to remove.


Ask that marketing manager you admire for his thoughts on "masks". Fair inference: He behaves very differently, depending on where he's at, and who is around
 

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Even generically Red Pill guys are recognizing
4:49-6:33 that there's nothing sexist/misandrist/Gynocentric about a man looking after his appearance. The typical defenses we hear for NOT doing so out of The Manosphere ("Our feminist school system robbed us of role models, so young guys can't help not having role models", "MeToo made young men give up on life")don't hold up, when one considers

-Guidance on this subject has been around for a long f-cking time https://www.amazon.com/Stiff-Drink-Close-Shave-Manliness/dp/0811807576 https://www.amazon.com/AskMen-com-Presents-Bar-Bedroom-Pleasuring/dp/0061208523 https://www.sosuave.com/ubb/Forum6/HTML/000265.html Note the dates of publication on all those links


-This same phenomena(Men closing not to put effort into themselves)was noted long before MeToo/Wokeness becoming a fad occurred https://slate.com/human-interest/20...pping-up-in-tv-and-movies-like-greenberg.html
 

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"Looksmaxxing is a practice in which people perform several body care routines in an effort to improve ones physical appearance. Some of these practices are fairly common and standard, such as clearing up facial acne, going to the gym, getting a new haircut, or moisturizing..."

All counsel we regularly received in the pages of Maxim and FHM, back in The 90s-early '10s, and from pre-Woke Askmen during The 2000s-15. Tough to not mourn the days when we simply refereed to such things as "embracing adulthood"*, instead of lapsing into Manosphere gibberish. It's a relief to read that many young men seem to be rediscovering what was once self-evident though



*This isn't even especially modern
I agree with the idea of looksmaxxing.

Even though (as I've said on this forum before) I looked better in my younger days (per an AI looks rater), that's somewhat misleading.

The AI looks rater only rates you on facial features.

I spent too much of my younger days rocking haircuts that didn't work for me.

With age, I eventually found hairstyles that work on me. I find that something as simple as the right haircut does wonders when it comes to looksmaxxing.

As a result, even though I rank lower on the AI looks scale now than I did in my younger days, I'd say my overall package (no pun intended) is better.
 

"I'm Not Looking for Anything Serious Right Now"

When a woman says it, guys hear a confession. A heads-up. A scheduling conflict.

Here's the translation: I don't feel anything. Right now. With you.

Watch what happens when a man triggers actual attraction. The busy career, the recent breakup, the "not in a place to date" — all of it evaporates instantly. The same woman who was guarding her freedom is suddenly free every night.

The "22 Rules" explain why. When the right switches flip, her timeline rearranges itself around you.

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I agree with the idea of looksmaxxing.

Even though (as I've said on this forum before) I looked better in my younger days (per an AI looks rater), that's somewhat misleading.

The AI looks rater only rates you on facial features.

I spent too much of my younger days rocking haircuts that didn't work for me.

With age, I eventually found hairstyles that work on me. I find that something as simple as the right haircut does wonders when it comes to looksmaxxing.

As a result, even though I rank lower on the AI looks scale now than I did in my younger days, I'd say my overall package (no pun intended) is better.
Hairstyle is critical. For a guy with full hair, not optimizing your hairstyle is just leaving looks points on the table. It’s way more important than clothes or even body.
 

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Hairstyle is critical. For a guy with full hair, not optimizing your hairstyle is just leaving looks points on the table. It’s way more important than clothes or even body.
Yeah, especially for a guy like me who only has a few different hairstyles that can work for my hair texture.

The fact I was higher-ranked on facial attractiveness alone in my younger days doesn't change the fact my hairstyle left much to be desired.
 
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