Lucas88 wrote: ↑September 20th, 2022, 3:08 pm
My uncle is living proof that masculinity (primal) and charm are a far greater bargaining chip for men than earning ability. My uncle works as a humble garbage collector while his attractive wife of more than two decades is the headteacher of a prestigious academy and earns a much higher salary. Needless to say, my uncle is an absolute stud. Even in his late 50s he is in phenomenal physical shape with biceps like Popeye, has a strong masculine jawline and a tanned Italianesque phenotype somewhat like Robert De Niro, always displays rugged masculine behavior and is a legitimate tough guy with the ability to fight, and is blessed with a whole lot of charm and charisma. He was always loved by the ladies but settled down with his wife who, despite being a successful professional woman, chose to marry him over any wealthier or more professionally successful man. She loves my uncle for his primal masculinity, sexy male physique, unusual charm, fun-lovingness, and heart of gold. My aunt doesn't care about my uncle's low salary. She would rather be plowed by a primally masculine, exciting alpha male to whom she is genuinely attracted and who turns her on in the most primal sense than by an unattractive beta male who happens to be wealthy and professionally successful. She has her own money after all.
I agree that relying on a good job and a high income is not a very good strategy (much to the chagrin of many professionally successful yet not very attractive betas) and stand by my assertion that gym maxxing and the cultivation of primal masculinity (as well as learning what you call "dating skills") are a much better strategy. I mean, many women earn their own money in this day and age and don't even need a guy to support them. I know that plenty of "RedPill" men want us to go back to a time in which men alone dominated the workforce and most women stayed at home, but I always got the impression that a subset of those men (mostly sexually unsuccessful betas or sometimes outright incels) simply desired to push women into a state of financial dependency so that they may have more power over them and force them to date/marry them. I understand that they want to shift the power dynamic in men's favor but at the same time I've never felt comfortable with the idea of a woman being with me simply because she depends on me out of financial desperation and needs me for my resources. If a woman chooses to be with me, I want it to be because she is genuinely attracted to me, not simply due to a situation of financial dependency as was often the case in previous times.
Great example story supporting the point
@Lucas88.
I agree on all of it 100%, but will just add the note that even though I also am preoccupied with muscle and macho stuff too, I also observed tons of physically unimpressive guys who know how to lay on the charm and get women crazy about them who take a more suave/seductive/charming approach as well, so the gym maxxing is great, but not absolutely essential.
Basically, each thing a man can do that makes him internally and externally attractive to the type of women he likes is like it adds to some total score (not something to actually cerebrally imaging we can tally up, because of course we can't), but even though it's true being an independent leader type who is successful in business is one thing that can be attractive about you to women, it's one of the less important things + creates problems if the women are mingling a desire for your $$$ with other factors about you they find attractive. That's why IMO you should playfully brush them off and not tell them your income level at all, possibly even claiming to be less successful than you actually are.
But so many of these other guys just can't de-hypnotize themselves from this beta male or retro redpill societal programming bullshit saying you have to actually try to attract women by having "a good job," it's just such folly.
@Outcast9428 even tried to argue that employment earnings supposedly make you primally attractive to women (total hogwash because that won't work unless you are already attractive to them for other reasons), and yet he says himself if the woman's salary goes up then odds of her divorcing him increase by orders of magnitude, which is proving we're right and debunking their own position, yet they're still trying to tell us we're the ones who have got it wrong.
Obviously, what he said is proving our point and showing they're the ones who don't get it when they confused earnings with what really gets the women attracted on a deeper level, yet even men in the tens of thousands wasting money on women, attracting gold-diggers, then getting cuckolded while he's working 70 hours a week, then eventually divorced and getting his clock cleaned, and they're still saying this stuff. Also, the large numbers of men who do get financially successful and then waste time trying to get sexy young women to go for them by offering to fly them to beach resorts and stuff like that prove this all the time, because the chicks will try to rationalize and become attracted to them at first sometimes, but usually find they just can't do it, so a lot of them will get stop seeing the rich guys (while others will cheat but try to keep spending his $$$).
Then meanwhile other guys who can get more women than they have time for won't even divulge their earnings (I won't either) and may even dissemble claiming we're less successful than we actually are to make sure we're charming the womens' pants off, and not being a dumbass who actually imagines himself to be internally attractive based on his income or financial assets.
In my case, I'm all for true romance and would even stick by a woman for life if she was giving real love back, but no way in hell would I ever marry a woman unless SHE made way more money than me, unless we had a 100% bulletproof prenuptial contract in a place where those were actually enforced + kept all accounts separate with no co-ownership of financial assets.
Those last points are also even more important for tradpill hodlers who are going to delude themselves about how they're supposedly internally attractive to women based on earnings, because in reality they are not (unless like I said they are for other reasons, but a lot of times those honeymoon chemicals from the best part of an early relationship fade off), so if they get married they're at maximum risk of the chicks getting them by the balls and cleaning their clocks in a divorce later, and walking away with his $$$ and financial assets unless they protect themselves against it with the prenup and asset protection program, regardless of what chicks told them in the honeymoon phase or earlier about supposedly sharing "traditional values" or whatever.