To start, most of what TRP preaches is true.

  • AF\BB scientifically valid
  • Physical attractiveness is 16x stronger of a predictor of relationship selection.
  • Men who display beta traits in relationships have lower ultimate success rates in marriage.
  • Men who lose their job or who are stay at home have a much larger chance of losing the relationship.
  • Men have a much harder time in family court.
  • Hypergamy, branch swinging etc etc etc

What I'm saying is that because I am criticizing the red pill, I am not saying the blue pill is correct, but instead another camp.

The red pill

  • The primary courting method involves PUA techniques which are fashioned for women with attachment disorders. Techniques like negging, push\pull etc.
  • The description of the highly ephemeral nature of women closely aligns with women who have attachment disorders.
  • The design of the "system" which only allows women the status of plate, creates emotional distance and by design can not "hurt" the ego of the narcissist.
  • Rejection of children largely due to monetary concerns. (Which could be mitigated by having children with a breadwinner or equal earner).

The obvious flaw to TRP is of course the shallowness of the design. Your genetic lineage ends, if you only follow TRP lore. Or you get some "test tube" baby and ignore the impact that would have on the child, much less your social standing.

The blue pill

  • Primary courting method involves shared experiences and "compatibility."
  • Relationships are often more serial monogamous.
  • System requires emotional vulnerability
  • Marriage & children is an end goal (for most)

Correcting for narcissistic injury and adopting to marriage 2.0

  • All undeniable truths of TRP still apply. Women are as self interested as men in their sexual strategy.
  • The method of plate to LTR is still valid, men must have plates to understand what makes a good woman. Men must have options to obtain a good woman.
  • The "do not move in with a woman you do not intend on marrying within 6 months" rule applies.
  • LTR status is offered only to women with equal or greater earning capacity (this removes "divorce rape" or child support from the equation, unless you pick a woman with a personality disorder, but you were spinning plates, RIGHT?).
  • Women who respond to validatory flirting are PLATE ONLY material.
  • Women who respond positively to feminine imperative narratives are PLATE ONLY material.
  • Plates are maintained until a woman who displays healthy attachment mechanisms, equal or stronger earning potential comes into the picture.
  • Do not sacrifice for this woman or "your family." Your sacrifice, of course, is not factored into current benefit. Briffault's Law applies.
  • Maintain red pill lifestyle.
  • In the event of a failure of the LTR, you've protected your downside, maintained your demand (body).

This I think is the healthiest was to interpret the divide between red and blue, both being too extreme in each direction.

TRP being most consistent in truth, but yet missing a bigger point. That it is a system really designed for men raised in broken homes, who do not realize they have attachment disorders. And that the largest fears they have, can be mitigated by plating women who have high earning potential.