I was reading a post about vulnerability and manipulative women someone linked in another post I found while searching (this for reference) and I kind of agree with what he says here:
PEOPLE do not process logic or think rationally. Not women, humans. I mean, you’ve been behaving as a Nice Guy your entire life with little to nothing to show for it. That wasn’t exactly a rational decision, was it? You consistently chose to get involved with manipulative women. Why? That’s not very rational either.
Humans, both men and women, are slaves to their emotions and subconscious itches. Logic only comes into play when we want to justify what we already feel to ourselves and to others.
Now, I don't think that he's trying to dismiss gender differences altogether here. I think he's trying to make it clear that you will find irrationality in both genders, and that's part of human nature.
I found the same pattern in another book TRP recommends, "How to win friends and influence people" where Carnegie says:
When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity.
And while Carnegie himself wasn't attempting to give a dating advice but a social one (from a mostly "salesman" perspective) his advice still holds merit, even though he was dealing with men 99% of the time!
Where I'm going with this is, that I think that we're all too caught up with defining ourselves as different than blue pillers (because we are, duh?) and women (because we also are, unless you're a woman who browses this board) but we're still susceptible to the same errors of thinking and weaknesses as every other human is.
The questions are: Do you agree with the claim that all humans are irrational, and do you think the belief that TRPers aren't as emotional as women and blue pillers holds merit when scrutinized?
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