Esther Vilar's Manipulated Man is a classic and a well recommended book for anyone GOTW. I'll try to summarize her main points from the book to those MGTOW who have not yet purchased the book but would like to gain some insight from it.

  1. Women learn to be helpless as a way of manipulating men into doing their bidding. By playing dumb (or really being dumb) they can use stupidity and 'lack of' physical strength to get men to do all sorts of tasks, such as mechanical work, work around the house, etc. Men are not aware of this, and take pride in being able to help a woman. This is a clever way to enslave the man and have him think he's lucky to be in a position to help a woman. Cosmetics aid this helpless look by making women look like babies with delicate nails, hair, etc.

  2. Masculinity is derived from a man's ability to provide or work for a woman. Femininity has nothing to do with work, thus it is a man's job to be masculine. Those who are not, are ridiculed by woman and other enslaved men.

  3. Men who earn more will always steal the better looking women for obvious reasons.

  4. A man who wants to do something else (that brings in considerably less income) will always look less attractive to women and will actually seem to be a threat (almost at freedom's gate). Men will actively be ridiculed for not wanting to climb the corporate ladder especially if he has children.

  5. Men self emasculate themselves and white knight women. They think it must be an awful fate to have a woman no longer be able to work due to pregnancy and now has to resort to doing housework. Men must be pigs for not wanting a women to do something outside the home. What they don't realize is that most women love this type of work because it's so easy. They wouldn't want to actually do real work that involves real thinking and physical manual labor. Women are not oppressed!

  6. Acceptance by other women is crucial as this is how women validate themselves (they have gained a catch after all - look at how much work my slave does for me!). She does not care for the acceptance of men as they are merely tools in her eyes. Would you care if your socket wrench approved of you?

  7. If a women has feelings for another guy she will never be upfront about it. She will flirt with guys in your vicinity to annoy the woman that the other guy is attached to.

  8. Advertising is based on beautiful women, not men. A woman (who are the biggest shoppers) are not going to be more inclined to purchase a product because there is a handsome guy on the ad she watches or reads about.

  9. Men continue to feel empty unless they have a purpose - this purpose is serving women and being a father. If a man does not have anyone to serve he begins to feel useless.

  10. Men see themselves as inferior beauty wise compared to a women even though men (especially those in physically demanding jobs) have very sculpted, healthy bodies. In addition, mens greatest assets are their minds which instead of being used to full potential - are instead being used to serve women and to devise new makeup products to further entrap men. Women quickly lose their looks over the age of 50 (the Wall) while most men increase in finances, looks, and strength over time.

  11. Innovations that have no direct benefit to women are cause of shame for men. Men apologize for discovering something new in aerodynamics rather than inventing a product that improves the lives of their wives and children. Men apologize for being selfish especially if their discoveries and inventions cannot benefit women. Men's accomplishments have to be tied to women in one way or another (e.g. an astronaut's new landing on a foreign planet AND how it effects his wife, men wasting their musical talents on writing love songs, etc.) Questioning women (why men fight their wars, cure their diseases, father their children) is beat down with ridicule.

  12. Women are stupid and have no idea of consequences because they are not capable of abstract thought. Why would they need to think? They have men there for that reason. Men are afraid of their freedom because they are aware of the consequences of their freedom and instead opt for the safe life, a life of subjugation to women.

  13. Because women love to be the one's to take care of a child, their subjugation training begins early. The boy learns to find the presence of a woman normal and her absence abnormal. Women will issue praise to their male children to ensure he keeps his usefulness up (they take them to learn sports, participate in competitions, etc.) all to make sure he is carefully groomed for his later slave-master. Boys at a young age crave their mothers praise and begin to feel like they have done something wrong if they don't get it. Men reduce their level of risks (starting a new career in a different field, because this might lessen the praise they receive - they are no longer professionals after all). Male praise does not satiate men's thirst for acceptance because it feels so unnatural.

  14. Women instill false optimism in men from a young age (reducing their fears of death, promising heaven to good boys, etc.) to make them more self confident. More self confident guys will eventually turn into better providers. She will artificially lower herself over the boy by making herself seem stupider than she actually is (self abatement) to give the boy even more confidence so he will be quickly enter the workforce and not be tied to her apron strings. He needs to feel challenged by women and make his work feel superior (whether it actually is or not) so he can work even harder. Women basically work by inventing rules (like honor or not hitting women), manipulate men into following them while exempting themselves from those rules.

  15. Women will demand the same wages as men even though they do less work than the guy in any typical job and she knows this as the slack will always be picked up by other guys and her femininity will always prevent any consequences from falling upon her for not being productive, especially not to a man's standards. If women actually believed in liberation and equality they might actually have to do real work and fight wars! Why would they do that to themselves?

  16. Women teach men to have respect for women so they will never question them as 'queens'. If a man does not treat a women as a queen he is ridiculed by women and by other men. This leads many men astray and to believe this is the way to get a women's fidelity and loyalty.

  17. Women love the idea of the emotional, irrational women because it excuses them of all 'crazy' behavior. "Oh, she's just on her period or she's just moody." See how a guy who acts 'moody' is treated. They fake tears to make men believe that they feel as deeply as them when in reality, it's all a calculated act to make the man feel like he is 'acting like a woman' or irrational if he cries or displays weakness.

  18. Sex as a reward - thus their hate for prostitutes, bypassing the work. Young men and muscle heads (brimming with testosterone) are more likely to be harder workers for their women because they are more slaves to their biological urges.

  19. Women like sex (according to the information provided by them) as long as they do not have to do any work. Men who fail to perform are seen as failures which are often praised falsely by the women or ridiculed (the man is thought to be lucky that he can even get a girl who will put up with his inability to make her orgasm.) Men continue to push this fear of failure amongst themselves because they truly believe women care that much about orgasms (in reality they find more pleasure in shopping, etc.) because a man usually sees a orgasm as the ultimate pleasure.

  20. Men are coerced by religion to work hard for others and to never be idle or else they get punished by going to Hell. Religion is a good way to keep men in check.

  21. Children keep men bound to their women and force them to become even harder workers. This is usually reinforced by having 3 children so when a child gets old enough to go to school, another newborn is awaiting her mothers 'care'. She of course cannot work during this time because of the 'wellbeing' of the child and the man happily obliges her. Women literally retard a child's development to keep the gravy train going (consciously and subconsciously by spending time with a stupid person).

  22. Femininity is a mask. It separates what essentially is a human being who shits, eats, and sleeps like us men do. Makeup, femininity, and learned helplessness operates in a way to make a woman completely distinguishable from a man. What is essentially another person who should have the same responsibilities and burdens as a man will not because it is not 'feminine' to do so and men actively accept this!

  23. Women work to take up time and to scope for potential providers. Guys who are not on the way up are looked down upon so they have to laugh at jokes they don't find funny, and subjugate themselves to daily humiliation from their jobs to save face as a man. A women who decides to go to school instead of work is seen as just as accomplished as a male worker even though she only has done 1/3 of the work. Women then change the script and give up their career for love or their children and men feel awful for this! Great way to help them self regulate. A woman who's physically ugly has to work because she has no other choice (even then she will still land herself some sort of provider). She feels instantly jealous of the pretty girls because they can leave their jobs at any time without a care in the world. These women consistently employ femininity as a way to distinguish themselves and constantly complain about having to work in a man's world. This is all a trick to get men to feel bad and be more likely to work for them. The up and comer woman will complain that they are not getting promotions but will never actually put the work in the rat race to get there, so she stirs up shit, fighting for her 'liberation.' A career women begins to threaten men as now his usefulness to her is threatened so he works ever harder to make himself useful. She on the other hand, to further preserve her femininity will never do anything to benefit him, like take a life insurance policy out for him (only on him), do the housework (they'd rather split it because they've 'worked' all day, or even not do it at all.)

  24. Women know they are not suppressed but constantly put on a show like they are - this is all to make men feel like assholes for getting the chance to work, for making more money, and whatever else they can conjure up as 'unfair'. This is where feminism comes from and it's basically a victim based mentality trying to get everyone to feel bad for them and to put down other men with no real cause or justification - quite the opposite! You can see women's blame on men for everything, lower wages, sexual restriction (not getting to fuck whoever, whenever), not being able to learn and get an education, etc.

  25. The falsehood of love - Men do everything for their women out of duty and out of love. Men do not realize that real love comes from within so he seeks it from outside himself in all ways that can hurt him. Women love by looking out for themselves. This is why men are often referred to as the romantics and the creators of chivalry. They want so desperately to believe that women can love them the way they can love and provide for them which is never going to happen. Women have a golden ticket and see no reason to give it up. Love will keep many a man a slave because he feels like he's achieved some higher purpose but men only delude themselves into thinking that love is a noble, worthy thing to fight for. Love is basically bullshit and one of women's ultimate weapons against a man who has more feelings than she does. Men do not use their greater intelligence and capacities to free themselves, but instead to drive himself further for his women and she returns that in favor by being more heartless, less 'affectionate' etc which further springs the guy to try harder and the cycle continues. The man feels lonelier as a result "I did all this for this girl and she's still treating me like shit?! What am I doing wrong?" Point #24 is usually the turning point for most guys when they've had enough abuse but men are quick to forget when the sting wears off.

TL;DR: Women use various manipulation tactics like feigning helplessness, praising boys from a young age, making men feel like failures if they do not provide for them and the children, sexually please them, etc. while convincing men that they [women] are the worse off gender. Throwing in love 'you don't love me if you don't do XYZ' is the finishing blow to a man's analytical mind and cement for his shackles.

I tried to keep this as succinct as possible but let this be a good hard lesson for all men who think women care about them in any capacity equal to a man. Keep your eyes open, stay free, and eventually you'll live a far more peaceful life. Good luck!