Critique of "Game" Paradigm: Game is Beta

ignatiusloyola · 2010-09-20T11:41:30+00:00

I think the biggest critique of "Game" is that it assumes that the success of a "Game"er's life is in having sex with many, many women without forming any long term bond.

Many people have many different goals in life and ways of gauging success. One of mine will be going through life without contracting any STDs or STIs...

skooma714 · 2010-09-20T02:45:23+00:00

When will it go gold?

I'm glad I never got into that stuff. Frak me sideways they have their own lingo. It's like a cult.

post-Christian scientific western society, and the only suggested way to escape your mind was to experience something wonderful with someone of the opposite sex - the deification of love

Uuhhh, people have been doing that since religion started. You know the Greeks? They had Eros. The Egyptians had Hathor. This is not a new thing.

koonat · 2010-09-20T08:46:25+00:00

This shit is all so fucking stupid.

If you have to employ a system of manipulation to achieve affection, you are broken.

Benlarge1 · 2010-09-20T02:33:59+00:00

the day has 24 hours. I field-tested the bonkers out of that last part so don’t even question it.

Upvoted for that

Grayswan · 2010-09-21T13:46:05+00:00

Game is a way to get and keep the upper hand in a relationship. Knowing how to recognize and pass shit-tests is good no matter what your relationship goals are unless your relationship goal is celibacy.

mean0dean0 · 2010-09-23T04:10:01+00:00

I agree with some of the other posters on here that the term "Game" is being very narrowly defined by the blogger, PF.

For me, Game is self-referential. I don't just have Game in sex, I have Game in life--the ability to not be deterred in my goal-seeking no matter where I am at. Women already have the feminist movement, Hear-Me-Roar shit to help them "man up," but men don't have that; we're already men, and most of us aren't that successful. Game is a state of mind that doesn't accept hating or playing, and especially cuts short self-sabotage.

In other words, if "new masculinity" asks men to question themselves, then Game proclaims that the very act of requiring men to question their identity assumes they didn't have one to begin with, or that their original identity was somehow broken or false. Game allows us to recuperate what makes us whole and happy: striving for success, accepting nothing less.

Title	Critique of "Game" Paradigm: Game is Beta
Author	ikarus1
Upvotes	13
Comments	11
Date	September 19, 2010 7:45 PM UTC (15 years ago)
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