They are a toxic sub, they objectify men far more than TRP objectifies women (its common to call men "scrotes"), and many of the women on their are losers IRL. But you learn from extreme opinions, they get some stuff right and its useful to "steelman" (the opposite of "strawman") arguments.

Men can hit the wall too; and its called male pattern baldness.

Balding can trash your appearance. It can add 10-20 years to your appearance.

The best sub on this is tressless. The best youtuber on this is More Plates More Dates.

The moment you notice hair loss you've already lost 50% of your hair. Finasteride is wonderful for perhaps most men. It doesn't reverse hairloss (nothing does really) but it stops progression massively. For some people the side effects are too bad and they need to stop. I had brainog from it which was rare and too extreme so I had to quit.

Post Finasteride Syndrome is rare and very bad, but most PFS cases can be cured by TRT if worst comes to worst. Some men need TRT to offset the sides of finateride.

Minodixil can cause new hair growth, but you MUST never stop taking it and the moment you do all the new hair falls out. It has some cardio risks and can cause forehead wrinkles so I never took it.

Toppik and hair fibres are miraculous. These are all I use now. Undetectable or covering balding at the crown. Use hairspray to waterproof it. Its pretty cheap if you buy a non brand name with a good rating. It takes 10 seconds to apply and some people will judge you negatively for it if they find out. But those are the same kinds of people who call gym goers insecure.

Hair transplants are not the ultimate cure for most people as you simply dont have enough hair follicles to move around. You also need multiple transplants to do it right.

Some men swear by hair systems and they aren't a bad option if you can get over it and own it. The real cost is the 1-2 hours of your time every 10 days. Search tressless to read whats it like living with one. You are now fraud mode so may as well go on steroids too heh.

You can "just shave it bro" but only 10% of men look very good bald, most men look worse. A bald head is a dealbreaker to many women and lowers your success rates. Some internet tough guys say "who cares bro" but this is cope, you are lowering your odds with women. If your odds were already great then you still can have good odds. And thats still fine its not the end of the world, but you need to accept you are lowering your odds.

Owning your own property

Women care about signals like owning your own property. Property is a much worse investment than e.g. bitcoin over the last year. But they disproportionately care about outward signals like this. They also care about whether you are a "manager" and managing employees a weird amount. Like you might earn more as an IC software engineer who isn't managing, but they like someone earning less money but who manages people. Despite it meaning you have more stress and less time perhaps.

Paying for dates

I defer to Toddv Dating on this. Its best just to pay for dates. I used to think it was more alpha to demand splitting the bill and beta to pay. But you get more success from just paying. Particularly if you are not in your early 20s any more. Just have a budget for it. I have had positive results from forgetting my wallet (genuinely, not as a power move) occasionally, but with women I'd already been on multiple dates with.

FDS demands many expensive meals over months while holding out on physical intimacy. Expensive meals while early stages of dating are often a bad idea though. Leading to the next point...

Men want to earn it

I really enjoy the song and dance of seduction when first dating someone. I prefer to date someone who has standards and doesn't have sex with me within 30 minutes. I have had sex with women within 5 minutes of meeting them and honestly a relationship would never be possible after that. They know this too of course. I've even noticed worse results after sex on a first date because the woman expected it to be a one time thing rather than a dating prospect. They were surprised I wanted to date again. Some PUA blogs I noticed back in the day would observe this. This is also why multiple venues/dates on the first meetup is superior, you both rationalise it as multiple dates. Maximising odds of reconnecting and reducing feeling of giving it up too soon.

Some of the most attractive women I have dated gave me nuclear rejections at first. Demonstrating high standards is a DHV for women.

What FDS does wrong though is telling women to hold off on sex for 3-6 months and demanding men pay for dates that whole time. That is really shooting themselves in the foot in your late 20s. The only time something like that was understandable was dating a virgin in my late teens. If I am dating someone who has had some experience and multiple boyfriends and probably one night stands... there is no way I am going to allow that precedent. If I married her and we ended up having sex every 3 months I would have zero right to expect more, and sex is a human need. A woman withholding physical intimacy to this extreme is analagous to a man withholding emotional intimacy to an extreme - its toxic and men and women should not deny physical and emotional intimacy to each other if the relationship is to be a healthy one.

What about you? What do you think FDS get right?