There's a certain way that women go about getting what they want in a social setting, which is inherent to female nature.

Women are not fighters. Lacking the ability to get what they want through violence, they manipulate others into doing their bidding. This is how it goes:

- Consensus building: the first phase requires the leveraging of social allies to build consensus around the objective pursued. Chats, first individual and then involving more and more women, will establish reciprocal trust and agreement on a common version of events. When critical mass is reached, it's time for phase two.

- Shaming: in phase two, shame is brought to bear to impose the consensus on the wider group. The consensus is presented as the obviously correct and only moral idea; opposition to it is first implied and soon enough openly stated to be abominable, as opposers and any who tolerate them are ostracized to coherce them into compliance.

- Policing: once overt opposition to the consensus has been socially repressed, requests that the consensus idea be enforced can be advanced with guaranteed success. Other people, usually males, are tasked with providing the actual policing (violence); the women themselves remain as overseers.

Phase one, consensus building, is what's currently happening with feminists and TRP. Take a look at this:

Documenting digital feminist activism: Mapping feminist responses to new media misogyny and rape culture

£110,000 have been budgeted for feminists to produce a study of 'internet sexism' and 'digital feminist activism'. In case you're wondering whether I'm not reading too much into it, this is what this group is already discussing.

The objective of this study is not to study anything: they've already got the list of 'sexist' internet communities down, and they certainly spend their days reading them and bitching about them online.

No, the objective of this study is so that their ideas can be published in a prestigious journal. TRP and the rest will be officially condemned as sexist, misogynistic and evil by 'science'. They will be pathologized, the men partecipating reduced to malaptive crazies taking out their frustrations against women, and 'resistance' against them will be glorified and elevated to an important social function. All women will be tasked with being onboard with this, under the implicit threat of exclusion (the worst social threat to a woman).

This is consensus building. Once it's done, this and similar studies will become the cornerstones of concerned campaigns to have 'internet misogyny' banned or penalized. There will be panels of Very Serious People reading them in Committee rooms on both sides of the Atlantic, using them as the 'scientific' basis for the 'need' to act against this 'wave' of horror. That will be phase two, when male naysayers will be shamed into compliance.

Phase three, policing, will consist of legal harassment, such as 'visits' by police officers to people who are caught spreading wrongthink (if you think this is impossible, look up what they already do with people spreading anti-refugee messages in Europe), and social ostracism; banks and internet providers, in the first instances, will be made to cut off offending communities, and then doxxing will be used to ruin the lives of men who don't keep strict anonymity.

So, lesson learned: the counterwave is coming, it's going to be nasty, and it's going to be heavy-handed. Use a unique nickname, don't give out personal info, and don't assume that just because this is the internet you won't be made to suffer RL consequences. They won't play nice, they won't play fair and they won't play by male rules. Adapt or perish.

Summary: I clarify a fundamental distinction between the two different kinds of attraction, sexual and relationship. I explain the origin of this distinction, why it's important to understand it and how to exploit it.

Dual mating

"Dual mating" is a sexual strategy in which the female seeks reproduction and partnership with two different males. She seeks to reproduce with a genetically superior male (called 'alpha') and to enter into a relationship with a reliable, capable male (called 'beta') that will provide her and her children with protection and resources.

In most cases, the cuckolded beta male will have some reproductive access and will gain some offspring of his own: dual mating doesn't imply a 100% cuckolding rate. The beta male will also attempt various strategies to ward off cuckolding, like mate guarding. But while the beta male must provide resources and commitment to gain some reproductive access (which the female gives up grudgingly as the price of his commitment), the alpha male gets enthusiastic reproductive access with almost no effort and with no commitment required.

Human females engage in dual mating. It developed before neurologically-modern humans and takes place at an instinctual, not rational level. Read the link for a shit-ton of details.

Alpha and beta

In the manosphere, the terms 'alpha' and 'beta' were introduced informally and before any strong connection to evolutionary psychology was realized. They are taken from analogy with hierarchical pack animals, like wolves, where the dominant male of the group (the alpha) enjoys several advantages over the lesser males (betas).

However imprecise in their origin, the terms were well-suited to describe recurring patterns in relationship dynamics, and have remained in use. With the introduction of evo-psych to the manosphere, they could take on a more precise meaning:

• Alpha: a male which (((displays))) (more on this later) traits that indicate a superior genetic makeup. Mating with an alpha male is desirable because of his advantageous genetics.
• Beta: a male which (((displays))) traits that indicate his reliability, willingness to commit and ability to provide. Being in a relationship with a beta male is desirable because he can reliably provide resources and services.

In humans, alpha male traits include physical fitness indicators (like height, muscularity, shoulder-hip ratio), masculinity indicators (facial masculinity) and dominance. Beta male traits include reliability, willingness to commit, ability to provide (wealth, lucrative skills). Notice that some of these traits can overlap but they are not the same: a socially dominant alpha male might also be wealthy, but a wealthy man might well be a wuss.

Information and signalling

Women don't have a magical scanner that can read the genetic makeup of men, so they must rely on those traits that males display. Displaying certain traits suggests to the female brain that the male in question possesses an underlying quality: a muscular man subconsciously indicates that he has high levels of genetic fitness, enabling him to grow muscles better and to catch more food.

These indicators evolved over the millions of years in which humans were hunter gatherers. They might not logically apply to the current day: a muscular man today is more likely the product of dedication and discipline than gifted genetics. But that doesn't matter: humans have lived in the modern age for far too short a time for present conditions to override millions of years of evolution. Women are still sexually attracted to what made an alpha caveman.

The fact that the display of traits is what matters allows a certain latitude to male sexual strategy. "Fake it until you make it" works because you can display confidence while not having it, and for the most part it will still be perceived as genuine confidence and elicit sexual attraction.

Sexual attraction and relationship attraction

All of this brings us to a fundamental operational distinction.

Sexual attraction is the kind of attraction which makes a woman want to have sex with you, regardless of all other considerations. It is produced by alpha traits: looks and dominance. A high school dropout felon who is, however, a tower of testosterone-driven muscle is the perfect example of an alpha male who is a loser in 2016 society, and still far more likely to slay pussy than fat Billie Beta with his office job and meek manners.

Relationship attraction is the kind of attraction which makes a woman want to be in a relationship with you, regardless of all other considerations. It is produced by beta traits: reliabilty, compliance and ability to provide. A self-made billionaire CEO who is, however, a pussy-whipped wuss who gets manipulated by a gold-digging girlfriendis the perfect example of a beta male who is a winner in 2016 society, and still can only get pussy if he puts incredible amounts of resources on the table.

Notice that while the two kinds of attraction are NOT mutually exclusive, and indeed in most cases are both present at the same time in some proportion, it is generally very easy for the effort required by the beta traits to make a man fall behind on his alpha ones. Specifically, men often give up dominance to try to show commitment.

Why it's important to know the distinction

The distinction is fundamental, because it teaches you which traits to develop and display to obtain the results you want. If you want to get a lot of NSA sex, work on your looks and dominance; if you want a stable relationship and maybe even a family, you need to also ("also" doesn't mean "exclusively") provide stability, reliability and resources. You CAN use the lure of beta traits like wealth to raise initial interest, but unless they are coupled with alpha traits they won't turn into sexual attraction. Having an expensive car might make a woman talk to you, maybe even sleep with you once, but if she realizes you're a pussy the sex is only going to be coming, grudgingly, in return for gifts and services.

The plight of the "nice guy" is exactly the result of trying to use beta traits, like availability and provision of resources, to elicit sexual attraction, and failing hard.