She asks it casually, mid-sip. And you feel the floor open up, because the honest answer is work, gym, and a couple shows you're half-watching.
Women rarely say this out loud, but a man with a life is attractive before he says a word. The guy who spent Saturday deep-sea fishing and came back with photos and a story — he walks in already interesting.
The "22 Rules" pushed me to build a life worth talking about. Turns out the fastest way to be interesting to women is to be interested in your own life first.
I could talk to any woman I wasn't attracted to. Charming, funny, relaxed. Then a gorgeous woman looked my way and I'd become a sweating, babbling mess.
The fix took me years to find and ten minutes to learn. Nervousness and excitement are the same physical state — pounding heart, adrenaline, flushed face. Your brain just picks the label. And you can pick a better one.
Rule 16 shows you how. You feel the nerves, relabel them as excitement, and let that energy pour out as enthusiasm. Women notice the guy radiating it. They always do.
The latter: "Katy Perry's glory days have gone the way of The Tasmanian Tiger"Is this a mockery or is it sending a serious message?
The Manosphere's assertion that modern men have been feminized is wrong... We've all foolishly bought into the lie that adolescence is the pinnacle of human existence, and thus continue to act as if we're in junior high(Seeking meaning in Katy Perry videos being one example), decades after we ain't. This has been a problem for awhile, nonetheless it's been unusually accentuated since about '16What man watches teenager music videos? And worse, tries to analyse meaning in music videos?
As I said: Many of us moderns continue to think and behave like adolescents, even when we clearly ain'tSeriously dudes, there are allot of Reaction videos on youtube. It has 5.2 Million views now - increase by 1 million from last night. This video is on fire.
I guess I'll have to start posting a few here to start the argument:
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.
What does that have to do with feminism?As I said: Many of us moderns continue to think and behave like adolescents, even when we clearly ain't
In fairness to OP, many observers have noted: Arrested development https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/stuck/200812/arrested-development?amp has been rampant in modernity for a looooooooong f-cking time. Note the date on that article. From the late 10s-today, it's just been unusually pronounced, and folks decades over the age of 15 analyzing/reacting to Katy Perry videos is but one example of thisSo, not only watching and analysing teenage music videos, but also watching reaction vids of other teenagers reacting to teenage music videos.
I think someone has an unhealthy fascination with teenagers, which is worrying in anyone over 25.
Many fellas operate under a belief which goes something like: "If gals like TrigglypuffAnd then they wonder why women don't think they're attractive...
So, not only watching and analysing teenage music videos, but also watching reaction vids of other teenagers reacting to teenage music videos.
I think someone has an unhealthy fascination with teenagers, which is worrying in anyone over 25.
What man calls a 39 year old woman a teenager? Katy Perry is one year from 40. Who's the one obsessed here? LolzWhat man watches teenager music videos? And worse, tries to analyse meaning in music videos?
Unless you're reaching hard to put down others. Not a very mature act, eh?And then they wonder why women don't think they're attractive...
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.
Good analysis of the music video. It would seem that you think this is a parody of the feminist movement. The urinals and the obese girl with the monster truck are good give aways to that. Katy also making herself like a blow-up doll after she got that toppled by the anvil (ie which is where you saw those "real life things that flashed small and super fast"...guess that what you see when you get knocked out by an anvil, lol!What the hell was that? Was the row of women standing in front of urinals telling us that chics have d!cks too? Obese chic pulling a monster truck? Is that a new CrossFit move? If she did that more often, she’d be thin. Funny how the scenes of women doing different real life things is small and flashed super fast. Instead It’s Katy squeezing her milk filled mom tities and showing her bare ass. When the music sucks, the clothes ends up coming off to get notoriety. Katy is knocking on 40’s door, I expect her to show us more and more.
Female(And, albeit, mildly more photogenic) equivalents to Carl Benjamin and the rest of the online sh-tlords who floated to the top of The Men's Right's Movement. These are all folks desperate to drag out their "edgy" teen days, never mind that they've been out of HS for 20 years or more. How this regression began, and where, when, and if it will ever end, remain to be seenKaty is knocking on 40’s door, I expect her to show us more and more.
ThisGood analysis of the music video. It would seem that you think this is a parody of the feminist movement. The urinals and the obese girl with the monster truck are good give aways to that. Katy also making herself like a blow-up doll after she got that toppled by the anvil (ie which is where you saw those "real life things that flashed small and super fast"...guess that what you see when you get knocked out by an anvil, lol!
But if you get the video, it's all about Katy Perry in the Heliciopter saying she is Katy Perry. The mockery is this...people will feign interest in stupid movements to self-aggrendize themselves. She's doing it over the top in this music video...but in real life, don't people self-aggrendzie themselves and take advantage of movements for their own profit but don't give a care about anything other than themselves?
Take the BLM for example, then when you see scam sites with their name taking people's money, or some of the people involved living lavish lifestyles and makes you question where the money actually went?
Maybe that is the message. The so-called feminism/woman's thing is a sham from the elites and self-aggrandizers who are just trying to keep the rest of the population poor and fighting among themselves by creating nonsense issues so people won't be pointing fingers at them when society falls apart. The video is all about Katy in that sense as she is the elite in this video making a mockery of anyone else who is taking that sh1t seriously. (ie like the black girl at the end of the video)
Interesting....and you are talking about being stuck in a high-school mindset.Thisis what true liberation looks like, for men and women alike
Forget the cash, the cars, and the chiseled jawlines. Female desire operates on a completely different frequency. Primal. Subconscious. Triggers that bypass her logic and hit her on a gut level. Most guys are totally blind to them.
I know because I was one of them. The overthinking. The paralysis. The silent drive home kicking yourself for freezing up. Watching average guys walk away with the girl while you stood there stuck in your own head.
Then I decoded the psychology behind what actually makes women tick. 22 hard rules. Subtle behavioral shifts that rewired my entire reality. The anxiety evaporated. Women started leaning in. Investing. Chasing.
Wisdom and presence of mind are required to recognize: That sh-i is cool when hard bodied gals in their late teens and 20s do it. Not so much when a woman in her late 30s and all points beyond who's birthed a child tries to pretend that she's at that pointInteresting....and you are talking about being stuck in a high-school mindset.
Some of these songs are catchy and interesting, but you should watch them for the signs and hidden agendas to what the elites are promoting next. The movie Blackhawk down came out in 2000 but eerily looked similar to what was about to take place in Iraq and Afghanistan....just gotta be aware to what there promoting next.What man watches teenager music videos? And worse, tries to analyse meaning in music videos?
I know what you mean. On that other thread, I just rented a movie called "Civil War" 2024 and coincidentally Trump had an assassination attempt the same day I rented the movie. They are planning something. This has never been a more divided society in history.Some of these songs are catchy and interesting, but you should watch them for the signs and hidden agendas to what the elites are promoting next. The movie Blackhawk down came out in 2000 but eerily looked similar to what was about to take place in Iraq and Afghanistan....just gotta be aware to what there promoting next.
It is just a fantasy, what interesting these women are trying to be men and do men stuff, so basically indirectly admitting it is a man world.
This was just released 2 days ago, has 4 M views and it all the talk on youtube and elsewhere online.
Is this a mockery or is it sending a serious message?
9/11 happened before Blackhawk Down. The Glitterati has it's share of less than honorable traits ( https://www.google.com/amp/s/rlo.ac...n-business-as-an-enemy-of-enterprise.html?amp ), nonetheless the power of prophecy ain't among themThe movie Blackhawk down came out in 2000 but eerily looked similar to what was about to take place in Iraq and Afghanistan....just gotta be aware to what there promoting next.
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.