tl/dr - a lesson for newbies and lurkers on the essence of AWALT

A discussion in another thread on pillscollide regarding "AWALT" and "sweeping generalizations" wants me to branch out this topic on its own, simply because it is discussed and contended so frequently, but it rarely goes into depth anymore, so there may be men who are missing the context when it is discussed in posts. That topic is "AWALT"; for the newbies and lurkers, "All Women Are Like That. And given that the topic hasn't been broached in an elementary level in a while and we have many new users, I think it bears a refresher discussion.

A brief history; AWALT is a TRP maxim that branches from the acronym "NAWALT", or "Not all women are like that!". This is the common refrain from women whenever a man tells a woeful tale of shitty female behavior within earshot of other women. Some examples:

Man: "My wife took my kids, ran off to Denver, and is now fucking another guy while I pay her alimony."

Woman: "Not all women are like that!!!"

Man: "My wife has been keeping an old sex tape that she made with an old boyfriend under our bed for years. Not only did she suck off a man with a huge cock on video, but she refuses to discard the broken laptop with the video on it."

Woman: "Not all women are like that!!!"

Man: "My girlfriend ran off to Cozumel with her girlfriends on Spring Break, and she fucked Mandingo the bartender in a dirty beachside bathroom."

Woman: "Not all women are like that!!!"

You get the idea. But see, that refrain has worked so well for so long for women. And until recently, men had no frame of reference to dispute "not all women are like that". Men would hear this even from the most trusted woman in their lives, their own mothers. Even after the hardest divorce rape, men would simply believe that "not all women are like that", and in the comfort of those words, blindly run off to marry the next woman who takes him to the cleaners.

So what's changed?

The internet, that's what. Back before the internet, men had a pretty closed circle of fellow men to bounce information off of. His father, brothers, coworkers, and friends were pretty much the only frame of reference he had to compare notes. But now, we have a massive men's club, or whiskey and cigar room if you will, to compare notes with.

As of this writing, 123,000+ men are members of The Red Pill. And they have been comparing notes online for years now. And do you know what we have concluded, after hundreds, if not thousands of blogs, stories, posts, and comments/replies?

All Women Are Like That. And it doesn't mean what you think it means. Do we actually, literally categorically believe that AWALT? Allow me to pontificate for a bit.

Let's say I have 5 venomous snakes in cages. Two of them have been de-fanged and are harmless, the other 3 have not and can bite and kill you. Each cage has a stack of $5,000 in it. Should I reach into one of the cages to grab the money, or should I just assume, for my own personal safety and protection, that all of the snakes have fangs?

Or another analogy; in every single gun safety course in the world, the first thing they teach you is to treat every gun as though it is loaded. Now is every guy really, actually loaded? Of course not. But it is safer to assume that every gun is loaded and to treat the gun as such. Nobody would ever say:

"Hey bro, be careful, I already checked, and it seems like a good number of these guns are loaded."

"Hey! Don't say that! Not all guns are like that!!!"

That is the essence of AWALT, and "sweeping generalizations". We teach men that they will be personally better served if they assume AWALT in this day in age, simply because the percentages bear out the generalizations. 55% of marriages end in divorce, and of those, 72% of them are brought by women. Hence, it is safer to teach men that "all women are lying, shitty, greedy whores who will fist-fuck you in family court, so don't get married." It is more pragmatic for men to operate from this mindset, at least until one particular woman has proven herself otherwise. And even if she does demonstrate a semblance of loyalty, remember that loyalty is not an innate trait in women. Hypergamy doesn't care, and they all have the capacity to do disgraceful things.

That's why it makes no sense when we get women saying "but I'm not a lying greedy divorcing bitch, so AWALT isn't true!!!" You're missing the point, because you aren't the target audience; men are. Women are missing the context to understand the essence of what we are actually saying, because women don't have the life experience of men, except for maybe Caitlyn Jenner.

Conclusion: So, yes men. AWALT.