Why are they called plates?

PemBayliss · 2015-11-11T22:39:37+00:00

Comes from Rollo Tomassi, The Rational Male. In a series of posts at his site, he discusses meeting, dating and rotating multiple women. A man has to manage them much like a magician or carnival worker spinning a number of plates on rods. Most are spinning well; sometimes he has to start one; occasionally a plate stops spinning and falls to the ground, breaking in the process. The trick is to keep as many plates in the air as you can.

Each woman a Man dates, has sex with or brings on is a "plate".

A woman he's met and hasn't had sex with is a "prospect". A woman isn't a plate until he's had sex with her.

Some women are upgraded to relationship status. They get promoted from plate status to relationship status. FWBs, short term relationships, and women who a man has just started having sex with, are "plates".

The complaint is that calling women "plates" dehumanizes them. But for men, it's a useful visual heuristic.

RedPillJax · 2015-11-11T22:40:42+00:00

My personal take on it is they're called plates, akin to spinning plates on sticks.

You get the plate spinning, and things are good. You can get another spinning. They spin independently of each other. Things are now twice as cool. Eventually, without very, very careful attention to keeping it spinning - the plate will fall, and break. This is okay. You still have the stick, another plate still spinning, and there are more plates to get up there and spin than you could possibly ever know what to do with.

Rookies can get a plate or two spinning with a little practice. Masters can get and keep even more spinning with less effort, because they've put in the work to develop it.

Spin away, friend.

EDIT: To explain the plate breaking, this is eventually when a woman will either push for your commitment and stop the sex flowing, she gets a boyfriend, you get bored with her, whatever. The plate breaks. Sometimes the plate will bounce, and you'll have another shot at getting it spinning at a later date.

fnordsnord · 2015-11-11T22:44:26+00:00

It comes from an old vaudeville act. There used to be specialized jugglers who were called "plate spinners." They put the plates on top of bamboo poles and spun them. The centripetal force keeps the plate balance on the pole. The juggler pays just enough attention to each plate to keep it spinning without falling. They used to brag about how many plates they could spin at once.

Sound familiar? The idea is that a man pays JUST enough attention to a woman to keep her interested without committing, and does it to as many as he can so that has a variety of sex partners without getting nailed down.

Here's an example of old-time plate spinning. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k44uoVm0lPI

life_is_amazing100 · 2015-11-11T22:41:10+00:00

http://therationalmale.com/2011/08/19/plate-theory-2/ Because you gotta put effort to keep em going and sometimes they fall off and sometimes they work well, read the link

alwaysthrowmeaway · 2015-11-12T00:12:17+00:00

Not sure if it is related, but Spanish has an expression that is basicly plate - "segundo plato". If a girl knows you have other girls, she will get mad and say that she does not want to be your "second plate". I think this refers more to like a dinner plate, maybe like leftovers.

buddboy · 2015-11-12T00:01:57+00:00

Because if you're alpha enough, you can eat your dinner off them.

life_is_amazing100 · 2015-11-11T22:41:10+00:00

http://therationalmale.com/2011/08/19/plate-theory-2/ Because you gotta put effort to keep em going and sometimes they fall off and sometimes they work well, read the link

Title	Why are they called plates?
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Date	November 11, 2015 10:34 PM UTC (10 years ago)
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