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Anecdotal Evidence
The other night I encountered a Bulgarian-American woman just before closing time in a bar. She was cute (albeit not gorgeous) and seemed to be in her late twenties. She spoke English with a slight Bulgarian accent, and as I … Continue reading
Posted in Alpha, Feminism, Game, Rhetoric
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In Defense of #WomenAgainstFeminism
Billy Chubbs attacks the #womenagainstfeminism photos popping up on Twitter and elsewhere. firmly declaring himself to be among those who find #WAF to be “typical female attention-whoring.” I’ll readily concede that aspects of #WAF may in fact be “female attention-whoring”, … Continue reading
Being a Baby
I’m not dead yet! However, I am a bit rusty (although not quite as rusty as the gentleman in the video). I needed to stop saying stuff and just listen for a while, to stop writing so as to better … Continue reading
Hierarchical Equalism
Feminism rests on three basic assumptions. For obvious reasons they express them simultaneously only when they think they can get away with it. The first is that men and women are inherently equivalent. Deep down, we’re all fundamentally the same, … Continue reading
The Solution’s Core
This post will be short, but it’s a relatively simple point that I think needs to be made more often. In the comments yesterday, deti composed a mantra of sorts, and other commenters think it would make a great poster: … Continue reading
Doubling Down
The lady doth protest too much, methinks. –Hamlet, Act III, scene ii In my last post, among other things I discussed the emotional reaction many women seem to be having to the Santa Barbara shootings (they don’t seem to mind … Continue reading
Checking Correia’s List: Intro
It was written some time back, but I’ve just stumbled on this incredible dissection of lefty arguing techniques by Larry Correia. Although it ostensibly describes nonsense rhetorical techniques for the internet, each of these have their “real life” equivalents. Online, … Continue reading
Posted in Feminism, Politics, Race, Rhetoric, Uncategorized
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Escalation
You can define yourself as conservative, libertarian (big or small “l”), neo-reactionary, republican (big or small “r”), or use another term that puts you somewhere on “the right”. You might even be to the left on most issues but reject … Continue reading
Posted in Alpha, Game, Politics, Rhetoric
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Mission for the Manosphere?
In my last post, I described some of the various perspectives floating around the manosphere. For those of you not in the mood to click, I’ve divided us into exploiters (have a blast before it all goes to hell), avoiders … Continue reading
Gun Shy
Last week was a pretty good one for Alpha Is Assumed. One of my older posts on the taxonomy of lefties was strongly recommended by science fiction writher John C. Wright in a fantastic essay on The Unified Theory of … Continue reading
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