Never mistake my kindness for weakness.Our culture is so toxic that genuine confidence and civility is mistaken for weakness.
You've replayed it a hundred times. She stood three feet away, scrolling her phone. You had an opening. You composed the perfect line — after she was gone.
For all you know, she's married now. To some guy who said something. Anything.
Openers are cheap. Almost any sentence works when it's delivered within three seconds. The expensive part is the standing there, drafting and deleting, while the window quietly closes.
The "22 Rules" stripped out my hesitation. What to open with, how to keep it alive, and the one habit that costs guys more women than anything else: waiting for perfect.
Never mistake my kindness for weakness.Our culture is so toxic that genuine confidence and civility is mistaken for weakness.
You've said it a hundred times. Maybe a thousand. And every time you say it, you train your brain to freeze the next time she walks into the room.
Leagues are a myth invented by guys who are scared of women.
She's a person. She has bad breath in the morning. She picks songs she can't sing in the shower. She overthinks her own texts.
Walk over. Say something. The league dissolves the second you open your mouth.
Agree 100%.Never mistake my kindness for weakness.
This is irrelevant. This kind of attitude is irrelevant to the reality of how people treat each otherNever mistake my kindness for weakness.
Really? Give a few examplesI am a nice guy/non pushover and still get mistreated worse than if I was a sociopathic azzhole, pretty sure
She calls you when her car breaks down. When she needs help moving. When some guy she's actually dating treats her badly.
You're the listener. The reliable one. The guy who would treat her so much better, if she'd just open her eyes.
She won't. You trained her to see you as the low-effort option — the friend who requires zero risk and zero investment. Every favor dug the hole deeper.
The "22 Rules" break the pattern. You'll stop auditioning for a role she already cast and become the man she chases instead. It starts with Rule 1.
Crushing is a choice, not the normPassive men, those in the expressive or intellectual quadrant will undoubtedly get "bullied" more often then not because they lack dominant traits.
Dominant men will not tolerate breaking of boundaries, passive men will negotiate or in the end try to make compromises.
However dominants are subject to being the "nice" guy when they are young and malleable, more so if their frame is compromised by the early teachings of their mothers/femcentric programming. That's where @sazc post above illustrates. They r the classic fvcked up dominants who's yet to have mastery over their frame's.
For passive men, ur inherent trait can't be change but it can be tempered, don't try being a dominant, it won't work. What you should do is find women that's leans more towards a passive personality. Those nerdy girls fit the bill. Women like @sazc would crush you (I'm just using ur Alpha-Ness as an example dear..).
For the passive man, your dominance coupled with ur femcentric views will eventually crush him.Crushing is a choice, not the norm
Malleable men are uninteresting, repulsive in a way. I don't seek them out and, if I find them, I drop them. Usually they reveal themselves quickly via inconsistent statements - an attempt to justify a decision or behavior with a reason that makes no sense.For the passive man, your dominance coupled with ur femcentric views will eventually crush him.
It's inevitable.
You will seek him out for he is malleable, that's when you finally feel "power". The power over men. It's exciting and alluring for a woman.
And all women want power...
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.
Interesting.Malleable men are uninteresting, repulsive in a way. I don't seek them out and, if I find them, I drop them. Usually they reveal themselves quickly via inconsistent statements - an attempt to justify a decision or behavior with a reason that makes no sense.
Example "I'm separated but still married because we did debt consolidation and can't get divorced until the debt is paid off"
What the ever loving fvck?
I assume they think they are talking to someone with no/low intelligence.
That one got nicely dismissed with a "wow, I'm really sorry but you have way too much going on in your life for me"
It's hard to find a quality man, not to mention that most of them are broke AF
As a non nice guy let me explain to you why "nice guy" behavior is unattractive.From a nice guy perspective, we honestly CAN’T grasp WHY women think there is something “wrong” with us being nice.
Such guy might be polite, trustworthy, intelligent, funny, etc. But somehow he’s still “in the wrong,” as compared to a hot-headed short-fused controlling guy who gets into fights lol.
I’ll be brutally honest. I write off the “nice guy finishes last” thing as a looks issue because it’s the only explanation I can truly wrap my head around.
I will never understand a “need for drama” or a “need to be dominated” (except maybe in bed sometimes lol). I’m not a chick.
Fair enough. And thanks for the detailed reply.As a non nice guy let me explain to you why "nice guy" behavior is unattractive.
Think about this, what women would be attracted to a guy who worships the ground she walks on or who goes out of his way to constantly please her? Why would a women want someone she can push around or someone who does everything she says?
Who the hell would want to date a people pleaser or a passive Man?
Most nice guys aren’t the over the top kind that are buying her flowers every date and texting non-stop. Most are not clingers as the stereotype suggests.
But passive? Yes, I’l grant you that. Absolutely. Being too chill or laid back can easily be seen as being passive.
You say you don't understand the need for drama? How can you not understand that? Do you realize how boring it is to be in a relationship with someone who "does everything right" or someone who is "always on there best behavior" that sh!t is horribly boring lol.
Understood. But nobody (including a nice guy) is always on their best behavior. Everybody has some drama. We’re all human with emotions.
You say you don't understand a women's need to be dominated by a Man? Well ask yourself why would a women want to be with a passive, submissive Man? Do you really not see how this is unattractive? How can a women be attracted to a wuss?
Who said anything about submissive? There’s no middle ground? If your not dom, you are automatically considered sub?
Trying to “dominate” others or control situations flys in the face of the DGAF game advice.
Women are attracted to men! Masculinity, dominance, strength, toughness, confidence, assertiveness ECT these are MANLY qualities.
Next Monday you'll feel more confident. After the gym you'll feel more confident. After one more drink you'll feel more confident. After you get a better haircut, a better jacket, a better job.
You've been "getting ready" for two years.
She's standing ten feet away right now. She'll be gone in four minutes. No amount of preparation will manufacture the courage that only comes from moving your feet.
Walk over. Stumble through the first sentence. Let it be clumsy. Let it be imperfect. You will feel more alive in those ten seconds than you have all month.
Your point is well taken. But some of us aren’t wimps. We would only show an aggressive side if truly backed in a corner. But I can understand where a chick wouldn’t know that.What women are attracted to and what they need for a successful long term relationship are two different things, a women's attraction is biological, it goes back to the primitive times where women needed to be with tough, masculine men who can protect her and there children and can pose the biggest likelihood of there survival.
Women reject the nice guys for both relationships and sex. If we are going to use a biological angle, I think it applies to both.
Niceness, compassion, empathy, caringness and selflessness are traits that were a disadvantage back in those times because those men were considered soft, just like those traits are disadvantages in environments like prison or the "hood" which i lived in both. Those nice soft guys didn't last long lol.
This is a tough and brutal world and only the strong survive, the weak will parish. Women don't think about this in the literal sense, it's all subconscious thinking.
If someone broke in into your home your wife needs to know that you are brave enough and have the strength to defend your family and home. If someone disrespected her by grabbing her ass while you guys are on a date what are you going to do about it?
When you come off a "too nice" you seem like a wimp, point blank period
Being chill and laid back is not related to being passive, I'm natural dominant and a pretty hard nosed guy and I also can be very laid back, a laid back person can take charge and lead others, dominant men can also be laid back or chill individual's.Fair enough. And thanks for the detailed reply.
The only point I want to make is that while some guys are hardwired to be more dominant, some of us are hardwired to be more passive. We’re naturally more chill and laid back. It’s not something we “choose.” That’s all.
There's nothing wrong with being nice, kind, etc. You have to realize that when PUAs talk about "nice guys", they are not talking about what normal people think of as nice. They are specifically talking about guys who go out of their way to be a doormat, to put all their self esteem on the hopes of one woman that they put on a pedestal, guys who are weak in general. The guys they are talking about are actually really jerks, because they are only putting on their nice behavior as a way to manipulate the girl into giving him what he wants. In PUA-speak, the "nice guy" is really a jerk, and the jerk is really a nice guy. Their version of a jerk is a guy who simply goes after what he wants.From a nice guy perspective, we honestly CAN’T grasp WHY women think there is something “wrong” with us being nice.
Such guy might be polite, trustworthy, intelligent, funny, etc. But somehow he’s still “in the wrong,” as compared to a hot-headed short-fused controlling guy who gets into fights lol.
You've said it a hundred times. Maybe a thousand. And every time you say it, you train your brain to freeze the next time she walks into the room.
Leagues are a myth invented by guys who are scared of women.
She's a person. She has bad breath in the morning. She picks songs she can't sing in the shower. She overthinks her own texts.
Walk over. Say something. The league dissolves the second you open your mouth.