The Anger Bias
Young men aren't nearly angry enough.
There’s a perception today that men are inherently angry, frustrated, and anxious. As such, we’re also meant to presume these ‘angry men’ have a potential for violence or, at best, angry self-loathing.
The idea is that “the guys in Manosphere are embittered, deeply hurt men who’ve taken the truths that the Red Pill has presented to them and converted them to genuine misogyny”. Furthermore, these guys cannot come to terms with their own failures and want to blame them all on women, or at the very least an unkind, unforgiving, pro-female world in which they’ve always struggled (i.e. “losers want to blame their losing on women”). Thus, these ‘bitter men’ promote either hostility towards women, or they attempt to check themselves out of the sexual marketplace entirely. In either case, it’s proposed that it’s men’s inherent anger that motivates them to an anti-woman mindset.
I addressed much of this misguided argument in essays that date as far back as 2013.
But are we angry? I can’t say that I haven’t encountered a few guys on some forums and comment threads who I’d characterize as angry, judging from their comments or descriptions of their situations. For the greater whole, I’d say the manosphere is not angry, but the views we express don’t align with a feminine-primary society. Men expressing a dissatisfaction with feminine-primacy, men coming together to make sense of it, sound angry to people whose sense of comfort comes from what the feminine imperative has conditioned them to.
Most of the men who’ve expressed a genuine anger with me aren’t angry with women, but rather they’re angry with themselves for having been blind to the Game that they’d been a part of for so long in their blue-pill ignorance. They’re angry that they hadn’t figured it out sooner.
I understand that a lot of what is written in the Manosphere can certainly be interpreted as coming from a source of anger. When I (or anyone else) outline the fundamentals of hypergamy, for instance, there’s a lot to be angry about for a man. Women get pissed because it exposes an ugly truth that the feminine exhausts a lot of resources to keep under the rug. But for men, learning about the feral reasons for feminine (and masculine) behaviors often enough causes a guy to become despondent or angry. That impression should never be the basis for a Man’s Game, nor is it ever really an aspect of internalizing Game that will benefit him personally.
