Over at Welmer‘s blog, he’s contemplating the seemingly sudden explosion of PUA/HBD/MRA/MGTOW blogs. What some have derisively labeled the Roissyites. I’m quite sure Roissy is amused. Welmer asks how did this sudden awareness emerge. As Welmer, points out, it really wasn’t sudden, it just seems that way.
My personal path to discovery started sometime in 2004, and at the time seemed a million miles away from MRA, HBD, and Game. My LTR was raised in one of the larger protestant churches. It is very much a part of who she is and how she sees the world. As our relationship progressed she dropped hints that she hoped I would join her in her faith.
I am not the type of person to jump into a major decision without doing a little research. A bit SWPL, but that’s my disposition. I began by reading some books, checking out a handful of apologetics blogs, and a couple of forums.
I read a lot of interesting commentary by Catholics, Protestants, and anti-Catholics, and eventually came to the conclusion that the Protestants were all like copies of copies of copies of Catholicism. As each new Protestant faith splintered off and moved away from the original they got farther and farther away from the true message.
As April 2005 rolled around and John Paul II passed away. Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger gave a moving speech to the college of cardinals which in part discussed the ‘dictatorship of relativism.’ Here was a man speaking about something that I’d seen and determined was slowly destroying the west. I have a lot of respect for Benedict XVI as an intellectual.
My LTR and I discussed her Protestant Faith and my objections to it. I pointed out what I felt were the weaknesses in their teachings and my objections to how far her church had moved away from their belief in sola scriptura. At the time I didn’t realize that my objections were to the feminization of Christianity. Even the Catholic Church has succumbed in several key areas. I doubt whether the conservatives running the Catholic Church will be able to prevent the tide of feminization as it seems so far that they’ve only been able to slow it down. Maybe I’ll do another post in the future on this subject.
Sometime in late 2006 I clicked a couple of links on some forgotten blog and found Vdare. Here was a bunch of articles discussing decidedly non-PC subjects in mostly a rational manner. I suppose there were some bomb throwers too, but one guy in particular made a lot of sense to me. That’s how I found Steve Sailer. I went through his archive and read as much as I could. I knew about Hernstein and Murray’s ‘The Bell Curve’ because of how vociferously the establishment set out to destroy the authors and the book for one chapter on race and intelligence. Coming back to this subject a little older and a little wiser, more of the blocks were falling in place for me. I was starting to get the feeling that our civilization was supported by a foundation of pretty lies.
By the beginning of 2008 I was beginning to believe that conservatism had their own set of pretty lies just as pernicious as the pretty lies of liberalism. One particular day, I came across a guy defending his book, The Irrational Atheist from any and all comers. Mostly he was being attacked for his repudiation of feminism and equalitarianism. The book isn’t a defense of religion and a belief in god, but an all out systematic attack on the arguments of Dawkins, Harris, and Hitchens. From that day on I was an avid reader of Vox Day, a self described Christian libertarian.
Then one day last year, Vox has a link to a blog called Roissy in DC. I quickly went through Roissy’s archives, then RooshV’s archives all the way back through his DC bachelor days. Here were guys telling me that everything I’d been taught regarding women was wrong. Not only that, but I could see in everyday practice that the things they were talking about worked.
I began to look at all the relationships around me, the ones that worked and the ones that didn’t. I listened and watched the interactions going on around me. I read books by Morris like, The naked ape, Peoplewatching, and Intimate Behavior. I began to see the matrix.
From there I began to seek out others who also understood the devolution of the sexual marketplace. Many of those are now on the blogroll. All seem to be contemplating what it all means and where do we go from here as a society. How big is the movement? I have no idea. Is it smaller than we think? I don’t know that either. I do wonder if we risk the possibility of chasing our own tails a bit. What I mean by that is that I wonder if we all get confirmation and validation of our world view from each other, and do we eventually fall into the trap of accepting that which fits our view and rejecting that which does not.
