A woman's greatest asset in this world of SIMPs is her ability to manipulate and lie. Truth and virtue doesn't come in to play -- there is no difference to them between the truth and a lie. Everything is just a means to an end -- manipulation.

EVERY statement that a girl makes to you, consider what is she trying to gain? It may look like an innocuous statement, but I promise you those are very rare. She is judging your response. She is refining her manipulation techniques. Judging whether she is acting on her best path to controlling you by judging how aware you are of the truth, whether you are likely lying to her, what you hold as important, and how much you are believing in her grand play.

Everything you say to them is going to be processed by their hamster brain and either used to twist her current ploys, to elicit a response that will be used to shame, to elicit a response which she can misconstrue to threaten your other relationships, to judge your weaknesses/desires, or put away into their armoury to be used later.

Women will try to get you down to one-on-one. She will limit your interactions with everyone else. She will work on tearing down your trust in friends. She will work on tearing down your attractions to other females. Others are your strength in the world of fakery and deception -- they allow you a control by which to compare the world. Without them the schemes of deception will grow larger, without faith/trust in them their ability to lie and misinform without consequence increases.

Remember: everything they say to you, everything is part of a scheme. But here's the good news: women don't think with logic or rationality. They are simple and predictable creatures. The biggest lie they will sell you on is that they are smart, which will cause you to at best try to discern any potential deception through comparison with the person you trust the most -- yourself. Since they don't think the same way as you, and you are likely good natured, the mirror they create to copy you and have you see yourself in them becomes yet another weakness they will exploit. You will see ill will as good intention. You will think "is she trying to trick me? Nah, she's a good person, she wouldn't do that." and not even pursue to investigate the deception. You will come to see yourself in her, and because you would not hurt yourself, you lose the ability to even consider that she may.

Everything. If you still must interact with them, be patient. Try to understand the scene they are painting by looking for connections between the last week or so of conversations and discussions. Understand what you are giving away in every answer you give, and how it can be used to hurt you.

There's no point in confronting them that you understand they are trying to play you for a fool. No, many of you would still be so giddy to understand it and need their validation that you feel you must explain it to them to show them how strong you are. This is yet another trap. They will always pretend to not understand and blame-shift and/or switch to shame in order to put you down for suspecting the angel of being a demon.

Homework assignment: start paying attention. It may take you a little bit to simplify women (if you don't already) in order to understand their manipulation tactics, but notice it. Notice how you can give an answer and change it -- through the shape of the changes you can trace the entire thing. If you still think women are good and useful, that they can be kind, that they can care for you and understand you... surely coming to understand how they are always manipulating and looking to get a leg up on you will just be yet another step forward in your journey toward freeing yourself and going monk.

Have any stories of recognizing manipulation? Taking control of it and turning it around to manipulate them? Not wanting to believe / see the lies until it was too late and got hurt? Something else tangential?