"She Made Her Decision Before You Finished Your Sentence"

Three seconds. That's how long it took. Your shoes. Your posture. The way you held your drink. Whether you looked at the floor or looked at her.

She already filed you away. Interesting. Boring. Safe. Bold. Before you even opened your mouth.

Everything you say after that is just her confirming what she already decided.

So stop rehearsing lines. Fix the first three seconds. Stand tall. Look up. Smile like you mean it. Walk like you belong wherever you're standing.

The words come later. The impression comes first.

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How much do you think Sosuave's bible is related to the manosphere?
Do you think the forum isn't part of the manosphere?
 

"She Laughed All Night. Then She Ghosted You. Here's Why."

Dinner ran three hours. She laughed at everything. You walked her to her car thinking this one's locked in.

Then: nothing. Two texts. No reply. What happened?

You did what most men do on a great date. You filled every silence, answered every question, and left her with nothing to wonder about. No mystery. Nothing to sit with when she got home.

Rule 3 of the "22 Rules" changes the ending: tell her a little, hold back the rest, and let her imagination do the chasing. The ghosting stops too.

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I think this forum is more underground yet heavily viewed and I'd prefer it to be that way right now. I think the people who found this forum is suppose to be here and here for a reason, we don't need sosuave to be overloaded like Plenty of Fish.com or reddit. But I'm open for this site to expand just in case it happens someday.
 

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How much do you think Sosuave's bible is related to the manosphere?
This site PREDATES The Manosphere, by well over 15 years. Same way women were musing on "women's issues", centuries before Betty Freidan came along

Hell, men have been expressing what we today call "Red Pill Thought" before the internet was even a daydream
 
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This site PREDATES The Manosphere, by well over 15 years. Same way women were musing on "women's issues", centuries before Betty Freidan came along

Hell, men have been expressing what we today call "Red Pill Thought" before the internet was even a daydream
Ay, Sosuave's Bible is more connected with 90s PC and proliferate office/suburb/Disney culture than with modern manosphere content. While the tenets are timeless, a lot of the language is probably outdated.

It was basically for Gen Xers who went out into a world that was supposedly sexually liberated, but fraught with new norms and threats.
 

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I don’t think SoSuave caters to the manosphere per se, but there’s clear overlap; some members embody its mindset: projecting fantasies onto women, blaming them when nothing materializes, and expressing frustration rooted in entitlement for things they do not deserve. This isn’t unique to today’s manosphere either; many men, historically and now, simply don’t like women as people.

I’d say there are websites that explicitly cater to that mindset, but this isn’t one of them. SoSuave leans more toward PUA, which was the foundation of what later became the broader manosphere. The common thread is male insecurity dressed up as strategy.
 

"She's Out of Your League"

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.

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SS predates the “manosphere” as it’s referenced today - but it’s part of the backbone of what makes up said manosphere. Guys like Rollo started here and he’s a major player in the visible scene now. So I’d say they’re deeply connected.

This place isn’t as connected to black pill or MGTOW as the “manosphere” is, and that’s a good thing.
 

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Ay, Sosuave's Bible is more connected with 90s PC and proliferate office/suburb/Disney culture than with modern manosphere content. While the tenets are timeless, a lot of the language is probably outdated.

It was basically for Gen Xers who went out into a world that was supposedly sexually liberated, but fraught with new norms and threats.
That's ONE way of thinking. Another is:

Life was a hell of a lot simpler when we weren't emulating not just Feminism and but The Woke Left more generally, by communicating in deliberately opaque jargon, and eschewing speaking and writing about "men's issues" in everyday language

More importantly, our mindset pre-15 or so was akin to sentiments the barbarically under-remembered Asa Baber articulates back in '94 https://reason.com/1994/07/01/man-troubles/

Quote: "Baber is encouraged by signs that "victim feminism" is waning, and he is confident that "victim masculism" will not prevail either: "As the complaints build, we're going to get tired of it, both sides, and then both men and women are going to ask, OK, now what are we gonna do? And so the culture of complaint will eventually burn itself out"
 

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I think Sosuave is probably pre-manosphere. I was reading articles and forum posts from this website ages ago.
 

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The Manosphere died a slow and silent death, but lust for women will never disappear.

That's what's happening on sosauve. Many men came to the realisation that women/female nature is way to dynamic amd individualistic to use "just add water" types of tricks. It's pointless to spend tons of time on getting women while you also need tons of time to actually be the man they really want..

The balance here is great imo. Some puaS, some long term purple pillers, some incels, some women..plenty of topics that keep you thinking about life lust and love and yet you get the freedom to express yourself. There's even space to have a nice scuffle every now and then:p .

If anything sosauve helped me to man the F up like nothing before. Simply by thoroughly studying female nature( because p00sy used to be my numero uno motivation for years).

So salute to all my sosauve brothers .
 

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A lot of the popular grfiters have stolen tons of talking points from Pook, and others on here
The manosphere on youtube is nothing but grifting clones who claim to be Alpha but are super tricks
I do not watch those clowns there is nothing a dude can teach me about hot women when he's dating single mothers, just go on a swiping app on a slow Monday
 

"She Made Her Decision Before You Finished Your Sentence"

Three seconds. That's how long it took. Your shoes. Your posture. The way you held your drink. Whether you looked at the floor or looked at her.

She already filed you away. Interesting. Boring. Safe. Bold. Before you even opened your mouth.

Everything you say after that is just her confirming what she already decided.

So stop rehearsing lines. Fix the first three seconds. Stand tall. Look up. Smile like you mean it. Walk like you belong wherever you're standing.

The words come later. The impression comes first.

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This site PREDATES The Manosphere, by well over 15 years. Same way women were musing on "women's issues", centuries before Betty Freidan came along
Yeah, I'd say it's more connected to the Red Pill and PUA movement/community.
 

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Hell, men have been expressing what we today call "Red Pill Thought" before the internet was even a daydream
Damn Jennifer Connelly looks hot in the video.

The movie is called “‘Career Opportunities”. She was 18 when the movie was made. It tanked at the box office.
 

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Damn Jennifer Connelly looks hot in the video.

The movie is called “‘Career Opportunities”. She was 18 when the movie was made. It tanked at the box office.
Nah gotta have the roller skates and the white tank top

 

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A lot of the popular grfiters have stolen tons of talking points from Pook, and others on here
The manosphere on youtube is nothing but grifting clones who claim to be Alpha but are super tricks
I do not watch those clowns there is nothing a dude can teach me about hot women when he's dating single mothers, just go on a swiping app on a slow Monday
Yeah, as has been discussed elsewhere on the forum




NONE of what we've referred to as "Red Pill Knowledge" today is neither new nor especially esoteric, and prior to late '17, WAS not controversial to say in mainstream media. The censorius turn our culture took over the past decade just compelled frank discussions about complex discussions underground
 
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