Looksmaxxing Goes Mainstream

[BaronOfHair]

Something being therapeutic (whether it's RPT, ASMR or BD-SM) doesn't make them 'therapy', no matter how much some people want it to be considered that.

Many decades ago, Albert Ellis quipped "The problem with most therapy is that it makes you FEEL better temporarily, but doesn't actually get you better". Not much has changed today

 

[BaronOfHair]

It's a mating environment that keeps getting more competitive

Everything said between 0:00-0:56

can be adapted for our purposes

Most men are going through life throwing random darts at a board, desperately hoping it'll land on a proverbial unicorn, who will be a modern day June Cleaver... The most successful guys only bring into their lives women who are down with being a component their brand, and thus susceptible to influence. You know why most men are in highly unfulfilling marriages and LTRs? Because most men are lambs, who serve no other function that being food for the lionesses



Dating and mating is trench warfare, gents... If someone who will swaddle and sing lullabies to you is what you're in the market for, get a nurse maid, instead of a woman

 

[BaronOfHair]

Is that why so many guys are carpet bombing?

It's why so many men are retreating into fantasy worlds of video games, Netflix, and Manosphere content. It can be tough out there, thus most folks give way to the initial urge all humans experience when things get tough: We run, hide, and devise rationalizations for doing so

 

[Bokanovsky]

Gen Z men are spending thousands to get that ‘American Psycho’-Patrick Bateman look

Looksmaxxing is all the rage.

nypost.com

Alternative headline for that article: ethnic minorities spending thousands of dollars trying to look more WASP.

 

[BaronOfHair]

Is that why so many guys are carpet bombing?

Hell, WS's most memorable and oft-quoted sequence

2:42-4:13 is, with some revision, applicable for our purposes:

"Many of the same traits that have been labelled "Toxic Masculinity" by our chattering class-such as vigor and ambiion to do well in life-are, in actuality, GOOD. Vigor and the ambition to do well in life are both rational and moral. More men achieving upward mobility, then becoming solid contributors to our economy and civilization, via Maxxxing in all of it's incarnations, will save the malfunctioning corporation that is The USA"

 

[BaronOfHair]

What if you don't want to save the USA?

I (and many of us on SS) live here... "Saving" is a strong word. "Preserving" is more apt

 

[BaronOfHair]

So, what do you want to preserve?

Ujena and Hershey's chocolate, for starters

 

[FlexpertHamilton]

The mewing thing is interesting. It seems to have some real credibility to it. And nothing wrong with wanting to improve your appearance. Though going as far as cosmetic surgery or obessessing over diet is pointless. All you need to do is eat healthy, get quality sleep, manage stress, and use face lotion and/or sunscreen, the rest is genetic.

What's funny though is if you make yourself look like a Chad with high T but have low T levels you're going to be very jarring.

 

[BaronOfHair]

I take it you've never eaten Belgian chocolate.

I've met an Afro-Belgian woman or two who enjoy cunnilingus

 

[BaronOfHair]

That explains your taste for Hershey.

To say nothing of my heightened fear of HIV... Not even this

looks sexy or alluring anymore

 

[BaronOfHair]

The mewing thing is interesting. It seems to have some real credibility to it. And nothing wrong with wanting to improve your appearance. Though going as far as cosmetic surgery or obessessing over diet is pointless. All you need to do is eat healthy, get quality sleep, manage stress, and use face lotion and/or sunscreen, the rest is genetic.

What's funny though is if you make yourself look like a Chad with high T but have low T levels you're going to be very jarring.

The jury is apparently still out on Mewing https://www.everydayhealth.com/oral-health/mewing/guide/

Which ultimately matters little, as we have a host of empirically supported exercises available to us already

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www.webmd.com

Yeah though: As even this Woke-leaning chick hath noticed

21:15-22:12


One of the great things about being male, even in this MeToo-contaminated environment we inhabit, is having so many ways to enhance our attractiveness and appeal. Most of which are readily within our grasp, and require us to neither fork over millions, nor undergo highly invasive surgery

 

[MatureDJ]

You know why most men are in highly unfulfilling marriages and LTRs? Because most men are lambs, who serve no other function that being food for the lionesses

Dating and mating is trench warfare, gents... If someone who will swaddle and sing lullabies to you is what you're in the market for, get a nurse maid, instead of a woman

Oh my, and I thought I had the darkest outlook here!

 

[MatureDJ]

I've met an Afro-Belgian woman or two who enjoy cunnilingus

Belgian Congo - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[MatureDJ]

I take it you've never eaten Belgian chocolate.

I've had gauffrés chocalates.

 

[BaronOfHair]

Oh my, and I thought I had the darkest outlook here!

No that you mention it, I left out a key portion of the adaptation

0:36-0:50

"Most Red Pillers on YouTube are guys who've spent the past two, or even three, decades slumming in lackluster marriages/LTRs... Their armchair theorizing on the nuances of life isn't worth whale sh-t. Fortune favors men who are out on the ground every day, taking practical action, and who aren't constantly overrun by their own emotions. Relations with the opposite sex are like everything else in life... You sometimes get results which are extraordinarily favorable, other times your returns are lackluster, and occasionally your outcomes are atrocious. None of it matters though... You move on to the next venture"

There's actually a wry optimism to such a worldview

 

[BaronOfHair]

Genz and Gen A have normalized every red pill terminology and tactic

Or rehashing ones which aren't nearly as recent as we're so often led to believe https://www.fastcompany.com/1681417...-irresistible-marketing-machine-built-on-lust Quote: "Older Republic members have designated “trendslators,” fresh hires who can explain what’s on teens’ minds. And when these new pledges are brought in, they’re even shown an indoctrination film. It’s a classic clip from The Matrix, where the hero, Neo, is offered two pills–a blue one to preserve his ignorance, or a red one that will show him a new reality. Axe is the red pill" Note the date that article was written

And to what I'm sure will be to all of our shock and awe, as far back as '09, research has indicated that as aspects of what we today call "Looksmaxxing" really DOES enhance a fella's self-assurance https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/health/the-axe-effect-is-real/1880428/

 

[BaronOfHair]

Gen Z men are spending thousands to get that ‘American Psycho’-Patrick Bateman look

Looksmaxxing is all the rage.

nypost.com

Every action induces a counter-action. If the Grunge aesthetic really did enjoy a resurgence in the later 10s and early 10s https://aesthetics.fandom.com/wiki/Grunge https://in.pinterest.com/pin/dark-grunge-aesthetic--344806915228110879/ , it was probably inevitable that being well-coiffed and fresh faced would also soon be embraced by many

Just as most women ain't Kate Moss or Jamie King, and thus can't rock heroin chic

for decades on end, most of us men aren't Dave Grohl, Rollo Tomassi, or Paul Elam... The dyspeptic look ceases to be viable, when you're 25 +, and clearly NOT an edgy teenager anymore

 

[jhonny9546]

The most successful guys only bring into their lives women who are down with being a component their brand, and thus susceptible to influence.

women that you can easly manipulate?

 

[BaronOfHair]

women that you can easly manipulate?

Call it "manipulation" if you want, J. This conversation has been had prior https://www.sosuave.net/forum/threads/the-shape-of-the-container.282297/#post-3120302

Bringing this back around to the subject at hand... The Woke-genuflecting MSM and large segments of The Manosphere actually oppose so-called Looksmaxxing (Even the most untheatrical of activities, such as daily physical exercise, keeping one's hair well-coiffed, avoiding obesity, etc etc)from the same brain-dead reason: "We should be able to be real, and people should love and be nice to us, no matter how we look, smell, and speak"

I(And I'm sure everyone else who possesses even middling intelligence)wish these proponents of "keeping it real" well, if they really believe such a strategy to be viable

 

[jhonny9546]

Call it "manipulation" if you want, J. This conversation has been had prior https://www.sosuave.net/forum/threads/the-shape-of-the-container.282297/#post-3120302

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