Players, PUAs, and Petruchio

Some people in the Reaction complain that players are evil, and therefore should be cast out of the Reaction.  Perhaps, but you cannot cast them out of the Dark Enlightenment, for the Dark Enlightenment is simply truth, unwanted and unpleasant truth, and no one has better cause to know the unwanted truth than players.

As for evil, it is not the duty of men in general to protect women in general, but of husbands and fathers to protect wives and daughters.

It is natural and right for men to predate upon feral women.  The problem is that we should prevent women from becoming feral, not that we should protect feral women from their own lusts.

It is not the man’s job to control the woman, it is a husband’s job and a father’s job.

In so far as we need collective social action, we need collective social action to uphold the authority of husbands and fathers to discipline badly behaved women, not to restrain players from taking advantage of feral women.

Now I hear someone saying “Well, it is natural for men to predate upon feral women, but is it right?”

And, as evidence that it is indeed right, I review “The Taming of the Shrew” 

Shakespeare makes it clear that Kate’s seeming hostility to men, her shrewishness, arises from sexual desire, sexual interest, and her fervent desire to get married.

In the modern adaptations, Kate behaves badly to men because she hates men. In Shakespeare’s play, she behaves badly to men out of excessive desire.

Heartiste tells us that women fitness test men the way men look at women’s breasts.  Kate is fitness testing men at psychotic intensity, fitness testing them in a comically exaggerated fashion.  Her comically bad behavior arises out of sexual desire.

Petruchio is a player.  We know that, because his servant Grumio has complete confidence that Petruchio’s wooing will swiftly succeed, implying it has swiftly succeeded many times before, and because Kate suspects Petruchio of being an inveterate seducer, as one would suspect from Grumio’s confidence.

Petruchio has, in comically exaggerated form, the classic dark triad traits so attractive to women, he is a sociopath, a psychopath, arrogant, an asshole, is wealthy and powerful, and uses the classic player tactic, again comically exaggerated, of assuming the sale.

Petruchio passes Kate’s fitness tests effortlessly, which, realistically, would turn her on, and does turn her on, which only makes her fitness tests more extreme.

Kate says she does not want to marry Petruchio, that she loathes him, though she physically attacks him, which naturally results in him touching her a great deal.  The dialog about a wasp’s sting implies he touches her intimately, though the fact that the dialog implies it would suggest that the intimate touch is not directly visible to the audience for reasons of decency.

Kate’s father interrupts the activity while his daughter’s chastity is still more or less intact. From the dialog, it sounds as if he is in the nick of time. When her father interrupted them she was about to jump Petruchio’s bones and ride him like a motorcycle over nine miles of bad road.

Petruchio tells Kate that he will tell her father she has agreed to marry him, and that she is not to contradict him.

And she does not contradict him which makes the lie the truth.  Obviously, in the case of Kate, “no” does mean “yes” because her “no”s are merely a fitness test.

And this fact, so obvious from Shakespeare’s dialog, is something that no twentieth century production of “The Taming of the Shrew”, has dared depict.

And then, Petruchio tames the shrew, restores the rightful social order that she has disrupted with her psychotically severe fitness tests.

Female emancipation was a fitness test that we failed, leading to massively bad female behavior.  Let us not criticize those that train themselves to pass fitness tests gracefully.

Men who behave traditionally towards women and children – which is to say protect and support their wives and children – get very badly treated. So, fewer and fewer men are inclined to act like that.

The reason women are finding male authority in pick up artists rather than in husbands and fathers is because the state and the wife uses the husband’s children against him to destroy his authority, threatening to take him away from his home and his children for any attempt to exercise his authority. Thus a man who invests in his family is made weak, and, being made weak, fails to provide the authority, command, and leadership that women crave, so they turn to players, for the authority that women need, which authority is of course abused.  To properly exercise family authority for the good of his family, a man needs some degree of assholery, impudent defiance of the social consensus, and a reckless will to power.  In other words, in today’s hostile circumstances, he needs to be a bit like Petruchio.

It is not only natural for a man to predate on feral women, it is right. The problem is not predation, but that women should not be allowed to become feral in the first place, that they should submit to the authority of those males who have incentive to use that authority rightly.