This is a concept that really helped me adopt the Red Pill at a deeper level. So often in your life, you're told what a "good man" is, about being a nice guy, endlessly sacrificing your needs for others, not objectifying people or making anyone feel uncomfortable etc.

Then you actually start reading about some of the men most idolized by our society (rock stars and other musicians), and shit starts to break down. Jazz great Miles Davis, cynically used women, beat them, and pimped them out to support his drug habits...still a hero to millions. R Kelly? The Rolling Stones? Not endorsing these particular behaviors, just pointing out that, next time someone attempts to shame you, they've got some rock star they look up to that doesn't get judged, because....well they're a rock star.

In my book, if society accepts a behavior from a musican, they can damn well accept it from me.

Thus was born The Musical Standard. I refuse to be held to any standard that society won't hold a musician to. Next time someone is judging you for dating a woman half your age, remember that the same woman that is critiquing you worships some musician doing the same damn thing - she just thinks YOU deserve less respect.

EDIT - Wow, my very first SRS vote down brigade! I'm honored. They were everything you guys said they were, dishonest, intellectually vapid, morally bankrupt and intolerant. I made a polite correction of factual errors (stuff they were actually "quoting" from me that was straight up fabricated) and was immediately banned from their TheBluePill subreddit.

A lot of weird ass Strawman arguments that were explicity against what I posted (I have no desire to do heroin or domestic abuse, these were behaviors I wrote against), I can see how tenuously attached to reality these wackjobs really are, and I appreciate the honesty, tolerance and intellectual vigor of this forum a little more now.