Recently I've been hanging around my dad more often now that I've gotten my license (recently turned 17). Like most black kids I was raised by my mother and separated from my father but unlike most I was born into a marriage. My dad was forced into becoming "Red Pill" after having 9-10 children with all of them being my paternal siblings.

My father is a barber, and if there's one thing I remember most about the barbershop is that it was a god damned beacon of Red Pill knowledge in a more simple and easy to understand format. My dad has always told me "Don't buy no girl shit, I don't care if it's Gucci, Louis, Stewie, don't buy'em shit because what are they gonna buy you?". The most valuable jewel he told me most recently is "Get the DNA test, it's not yours just because she and the state said so."

Men would come in and out of the shop for haircuts, and as they waited they would talk to my dad about life issues since the barbershop is quite small. It was everything we speak about here, from being turned into simps by their women and being put on child support, to improving their lives and going about their life in a new way.

The barbershop is in a more lower class part of the city, so the majority of men walking in have been through shitty day one struggles. Dealt with shitty mothers, dealt with shitty baby mommas, had to deal with having a bunch of kids pop up out of nowhere and being put on child support, having nowhere to turn to but the streets and more. There's no end to the amount of stuff I've learned in the barbershop listening to the less fortunate.

My own relationship with my dad is quite rocky, and despite the stuff I've dealt with from him which led to an ASPD diagnosis, I still learn from him when I visit him. So far, the barbershop is the only place men can go to and be men, and so far my experience has been that barbershops that are mostly made up of Black men is where you can learn the utmost about how to handle women.