I thought I'd summarize a personal experience that I had which drove me to being open to the Red Pill when I saw it presented. Though I'd like to say at the outset that I don't agree with most aspects of the extremes, the same way I don't agree with radical feminism. But as long as there is radical feminism, let them fight the MRA's and PUA's instead of messing up normal people.

I was a nerd growing up. I liked to think things through before acting upon them. So naturally, love was always going to be a difficult subject for me, but I figured I'd manage by listening to what people say. After all, we are advanced humans who are progressing and figuring sh*t out, so surely people have figured out the best ways to approach things.

Well, let's start with what I learned in school. I learned to be very deferential, accommodating, and listen to authority. I learned to be nice to other people. I learned to keep my mouth shut. Basically, I learned to be feminine. That's a great start (/s), especially when pushed onto someone who is naturally quite naive (I still don't understand why people wouldn't strive for complete honesty, even now that I know that people are idiots and lie all the time about very important stuff), and I was predisposed to be a little that way anyways as a cerebral type of person.

Enter my crushes. First of all, I came of age soon after the whole Clinton fiasco. Men just wanted to screw everything that walked, and needed to have that trained out of them. So I was going to be better than that. I applied what I knew to be the best man that I had been taught, all to no avail. Sure I could tell that girls liked the type of guy I was trying to be (they kept repeating that that's what they wanted, after all - sweet, understanding, listens, not typical male, etc), but for some reason they were never into me. So I'd double-down on that niceguy sh*t. And triple down. Then I noticed that I was just being manipulative, which led to self-loathing.

I even talked to some of my crushes, admitted that I had a crush on them, got turned down, and would directly ask why not (yeah, stupid. I know that now). Obviously I was missing something, because she was an ostensibly Christian girl who was hanging out with a bunch of potheads at college and, at one point, let a guy that she knew was a sex offender touch her "playfully" in ways that I would never have considered doing. But she couldn't tell me what I was missing. I was a good guy, and had very strong morals, but she "just wasn't feeling it" for completely unspecified reasons. Ok, fine. I took that at face value against every feeling I had inside me, and left her alone. (She would later make comments about how I would act differently if I actually wanted her, which was really confusing to me, as I was "past" her.)

Looking back, it was quite simple. I just needed to let loose and reject enough of that niceguy stuff until her feelings caught up. In short, had I listened more to my bad male hormones, I would've had much more success even with good girls. My question is, why was she unable to be honest and admit that she liked guys like that, and instead being super vague about "just not feeling it?" And more importantly, why was I completely blind to the fact that that's what worked (and likely wouldn't have believed her anyways)? I think part of the reason has to do with the utter degeneracy that exists and associated itself with amorous feelings, to the point that the degeneracy seemed to own it culturally. You had to be somewhat of a degenerate to admit that you liked sex, because you'd get associated with the degenerate part of the culture that was absolutely obsessed with it. And secondly, there was my experience growing up that emphasized feminine traits over masculine ones, and females that never openly expressed appreciation for unabashedly masculine traits. Men were always the problem for females, so how do you land a female? Well don't be part of the problem.

The Red Pill was a context that allowed me to effectively counter the subtle feminist/female-centric indoctrination, and come to a more accurate picture of the way the world works. I'm sure there are plenty of people who weren't as naive as I was who were able to figure it out without this particular manifestation of it, but I found it necessary. And from what I can tell, I'm not alone at all in it.