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The Red Pill Constitution | Illimitable ILLIMITABLE MEN Destroy your delusions. Actualise your potential. Cultivate your masculinity. MENU Search … THE RED PILL CONSTITUTION open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com Contents: 1.) Preface 2.) Feminism, Power & Privilege 3.) Women, Logic & Emotional Reasoning 4.) Woman’s Manipulative Nature 5.) Self-Limiting Genetic Determinism 6.) Hypergamy & Branch Swinging 7.) The 80/20 Rule 8.) The Hierarchy of Love 9.) Frame & Emotional Indulgence 10.) Female Visceral Revulsion 11.) Dominance & Boldness 12.) In-Group Bias & Relational Aggression 13.) Female Sexual Plurality 14.) Low Tier Men 14.) Gynocentric Family Law 15.) Female Narcissism open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com 17.) Commitment Is More Valuable Than Sex 18.) Gatekeeping 19.) The Wall: Men Appreciate, Women Depreciate 20.) Men Are Made, Women Are Born 21.) Single Mothers Breed Weak Men 22.) The Importance of The Halo Effect 23.) Testosterone & Health 24.) The Feminisation of Education 25.) Why Women Covet Male Friendship 1.) Preface: The following document embodies a series of principles that outline the tenets and beliefs of the red pill community. This article has been written with brevity and ease of reading in mind, links relevant to further discussion are given for each topic where available. The information herein is extensive, but by no means exhaustive. I hope to evolve this document year-on-year, adding additional depth and topics as time progresses. 2.) Feminism, Pity, Power & Privilege: Feminists crave privileges which consolidate the realm of male power with that of the female. Typically they are traditionalist in ways which benefit women (men pay for dates, pressure to perform is squarely on men) but “progressive” where traditionalism would limit their power (intolerance for female promiscuity, a reluctance to trust women with leadership.) open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com This is achieved by glossing over the influence of feminine soft power in society (influence and charm), and comparing men and women solely in hard power (economic and political). In taking this highly one-sided approach to power, feminists play upon humanity’s propensity to take pity on women, and where the myth of female powerlessness is bought into, more power is redistributed to them. Feminism is nothing more than a female supremacy movement posing as one of humanist egalitarianism. Feminism highlights female incompetence in areas where men excel, redefines them as injustices by blaming men for female ineptitude and then legally mandates the promotion of women within said areas. As such, women consistently make social gains in areas where men have traditionally dominated. All the while women continue to quietly monopolise soft power. Because social influence (the female monopoly on pity as well as beauty) is difficult to quantify, its prominence is neither stated nor factored into measures of equality. And in case you think that ridiculous, feminists factor in things as benign as the economic value of housework, so not to do the same with female beauty or vulnerability is highly disingenuous if your goal is to economically quantify elements relevant to social equality. Where the reverse occurred, where men monopolised hard power, we experienced 50~ years of social engineering to correct for the fact. The ability to be respected in spite of glaring vulnerability is a staggering albeit scarcely spoken of social advantage women enjoy, yet it is the pivotal psychological fulcrum on which feminism owes its modern ideological dominance. Where the pendulum has swung too far in favour of women, a successful male counter movement has failed to materialise. Not solely because, but chiefly because pity is in short supply for men. A man seeking pity is despised for his weakness rather than helped because of it, and so the very psychological mechanism that open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com gave birth to female economic and political power is nought but a dead-end for men. 3.) Women, Logic & Emotional Reasoning: Women are irrational and inconsistent, they have a capacity for logic but they are not typically inclined to utilise it. Women must exert concentrated effort to be logical for it is not their factory setting, men on the other hand although imperfect have a far more pronounced affinity for logic. As such by matter of preference if not biology, men are near universally superior logicians and decision makers. A logical woman is easily baited into becoming emotional; regardless of intellect, women are more likely to lose lucidity due to a stronger preference for emotive reasoning. It is by extension of this that we observe women to be more easily compromised in a line of reasoning than men. A woman’s decisions are based on her current emotional state, not logic. Once overwhelmed by the feeling of the moment and riding on a tidal wave of emotion, even if an awareness of what is fair and rational remains intact in a woman, she shall opt to ignore it in favour of indulging “what feels right.” Ever witness a woman hear something reasonable, and in the indignation of her emotion declare “I don’t care!” before muttering something that makes no sense to anybody but her? This is a prime example of solipsism, the female propensity to “reason” with an inner emotional narrative that is all but impervious to outside influence. As such, women often behave erratically and in contradiction. Women are fickle, so a wise man watches how they behave and disregards what they say. 4.) Woman’s Manipulative Nature: Women are Machiavellian by nature. In comparison to the average man, they are far more proficient in open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com matters of persuasion and general social manipulation. The theoretical evolutionary basis for this sex difference is that due to smaller body mass and inferior musculature, women evolved to attract and use men as tools rather than directly compete with them. This makes the pronunciation of female strength a propensity to be mentally rather than physically violent. Physical violence is outlawed, whereas mental abuse is not, with a suppression of physical violence without an equal suppression of mental, women are at a social advantage. The intolerance for physical violence coupled with the tolerance for mental violence is what allows women to bully and socially dominate without being held accountable by a system of law. Men are as such forced to learn to become as apt in mental violence as women, or face social disadvantage. The law does not criminalise emotional violence against men. Where physical violence is illegal (but typically more so if it is male on female rather than female on male), emotional violence is a question of personal morality and therefore not legislated against. Where a man’s instinct is to hit, a woman’s is to make you miserable. Arguably, mental wounds can be just as crippling if not more so than physical. In summation, women tend to be more emotionally aggressive than men. 5.) Self-Limiting Genetic Determinism: Your race/ethnicity does not matter if you are rich and/or successful. A lot of men are small-minded and stuck on the superficial, White, Black, Arab, Indian, Asian whatever, you have a certain perception of the world based upon the culture that dominates your racial/tribal background. open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com Non-whites in western countries are very conscious of their ethnic identity, and oft it is so that non-white men feel shame or anger over their lack of whiteness. Asians in particular, seem to glorify whiteness and perpetuate a culture of racial self-hatred. This “but I’ll never have it good because I’m not white” is a form of mental disease, an unproductive self-limiting belief that will hold you back and make you insecure. Perhaps where you live the white man is a god, but know all racial barriers are overcome by power, for money is power. If you’re a 5’0 Asian with a little dick that girls laugh at, a big bank balance and confident attitude will offset that. You won’t get there being jealous/bitter towards whites and putting yourself down, internalised inferiority has to be quashed. Focus less on racial self-deprecation, more on achievement. Men are judged predominantly on their station in life, a successful man is liked, an unsuccessful man isn’t. Racial insecurity will only hinder your chances at success by polluting your mindset, as such it must be banished by any means necessary. Be proud of your lineage, for you are powerless to change it. 6.) Hypergamy & Branch Swinging: Female hypergamy is very binary in its approach to men, a man is either deemed superior, or inferior. If a woman believes a man inferior to her, he’s sexually invisible, only when a woman deems a man superior does he become visible. Women want men who demonstrably exude power in a way that makes them feel inferior. When a woman feels inferior to a man, she is attracted to him. We call this hypergamy, a proclivity to date up and/or social climb. As an affectation of hypergamy, women are highly sensitive to signifiers of high status (good genes, wealth, confidence, popularity etc.) open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com Hypergamy can manifest in many ways, the best known is gold digging, dating a man solely because of his greater wealth.
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