EDIT: I could have worked on a better title

1Oh how aware I am that this title alone will draw out anguish, and in all honesty I hope it does. I believe, like all TRP concepts, that there is room to grow and become better than we once were. Especially in this day and age, as society is forcefully changed around us, we must adapt and work to become better versions of ourselves. To hold such rigid rules, especially IMO a rule that is a symbol/excuse for your inability to hold frame with women.

This is very much an opinion piece and I am not trying to change your mind, as I do recognize some of the value in keeping women as acquaintances or lovers, rather than friends. I am here to propose another option, another perception on the strict rule to not be friends with women.

Preface: I am biased, as I have for most of my life been friends with women. I have had friend groups that were made up of only men and only women, but by and large I have had more close friends who are women. A big part of this IMO has to do with my personality and my hobbies. I am an artsy guy and before pursuing my career took on a lot of minimum-wage jobs that surrounded myself with women. I have been drowning in women since a young age, being raised mostly by my mother, aunts and grandmother. My first point will elaborate on why this hasn't been a complete and total disaster.

  1. Being surrounded by women has given me a natural abundance mentality. I do not get oneitis, the only time I do is after a very long relationship and that's less about me thinking I can do better or that I lost the woman of my dreams. I mourn over the loss of what I consider to be a family member, but I all too well remember that women are all the same and that they do not perceive it the way I do. So the emotions do not last anyway.This reason alone has set me up since I was a teenager to be a natural. I talk to women like their humans, and I always have. I dont see a pedestal, every sexy bitch is the same crazy bitch in my eyes. I must admit like most western christian raised boys I believed in the disney fantasy, but with age that deteriorated quickly and that leads me into reason 2
  2. Being surrounded by women has short tracked my knowledge gathering. Every lesson I read about on TRP was instantly gratified/verified. I would learn the truth either through reading or very soon after applying the knowledge with the women in my life. I’d like to believe that my transition through the TRP ideology has been very quick and somewhat seamless. And this is all due to the fact I came into it with an immense amount of experience being surrounded by women. Two years into learning about TRP I managed to date 2 monogamous women for 3 years who knew about each other. HOW. DOES. ONE. DO. THIS?I propose its a form of mastery, I was in the stages of apprenticeship my entire life leading up to learning about TRP. Now I won't lie and say the relationships ended perfectly, but I had my fun.
  3. Cutting off an entire group of people based on their sex is not only sexist (OHHOHOHO I USED THE WORD) but highly illogical if you are at all in pursuit of success in life. Due to affirmative action, birth control and many other factors, you WILL be forced to interact with women. And I can confidently say I have a one up over every single one of you that claims to not have a single female friend, and for those of you whom have never had any? I say you're doomed if you continue down this path. Again this is my opinion, but in my mind limiting yourself in this regard is highly detrimental to long term success. Financially, socially… sexually.
  4. My final reason, and will more than likely be the most controversial. Living a life believing you can't be friends with women is a crutch. IMO you’re giving up on pursuing the best version of yourself. If you cant be friends with a single woman, and hold frame, you should not be pursuing a LTR. What excuse do you have? IMO the pros far outweigh the cons, and if things go bad you just drop the friend. In my experience having a female friend has done me wonders, social proof, additional security nets, job advancements, IVE HAD FEMALE FRIENDS TALK OTHER FRIENDS INTO LOSING THEIR VIRGINITY WITH ME, often get cooked for, free drinks at the bar, I can ask questions and not have to say no homo after, I attract more male friends due to the fact I have so many female friends, I can test out PUA techniques without the rejection, and the list goes on. The cons? A user in this sub said “you’d have to put up with all the womanese’ bitch, im not putting up with it, Im fucking learning from it. When did we become so boring, this sub seems to HATE MGTOW and yet we live by rules that govern them the same way.

I will have a lot of people disagree with me, and at the same time I’ve received messages from other users about my comment replies on this specific subject. You can take a look at my history to see the points I made on a previous post about the negative aspects of being friends with men, but I did not want to talk about that here because I think its another subject all together.

TLDR:

1: being surrounded by women my whole life has made my numb to their bullshit. It doesn’t have the same effect on me as it might those who do not interact with them on the daily.

2: Learning and applying TRP concepts is easy when you already have a limitless supply of test subject.

3: blocking a large portion of the population from your social group is detrimental to your long term success.

4: not having female friends is an excuse to not work on being stoic and holding frame.