I just feel like pointing this out. There’s a term young women invented, for when they’re getting screwed by a young high status white male who has no genuine desire to enter into a serious relationship with them. They call it a “situationship”. Statistics suggest that 50% of Americans aged 18-34 have been in a “situationship“.
So here’s what’s going to happen. Those ladies are going to approach thirty one day, they’re going to realize their looks are fading and then they’re going to hurry to find some poor guy who is less attractive looking but who will make a stable mate for them.
It’s one thing to have a relationship fail, maybe you’re just incompatible. That’s already tragic enough on its own, it damages your pair bonding capacity and you just run out of things to do together for the first time. There’s a reason breakups hurt so viscerally and people often tend to resort to stalking: That’s a natural mechanism.
But this is different. There’s a statistically significant portion of young guys who will just be spending the rest of their lives with some woman another guy took for granted. Isn’t that humiliating? When she’s young and at her prettiest, she is an easy lay for a guy who strings her along. Then, when she ages out of her beauty, some other guy gets to settle for what’s left of her. For the rest of his life.
“It’s complicated. We’re basically in a situationship.”
These are young women who are unwilling to pay attention to guys of their own socioeconomic status, until they want to “settle down”. Then the guy who studied accountancy, engineering or computer science and now earns six figures gets to have some other guy’s easy lay. For the Asian guys in particular it’s pretty easy to see how this unfolds: They eventually get to marry the Asian girls who first were easy lays for blonde frat guys.
“Hurray it’s my turn!”
Now if we didn’t have birth control, this wouldn’t be such a big issue. All the women who go for the “situationship” would get pregnant in their early twenties and give birth to a generation of socially competent extraverted charismatic tall good-looking and fashionable guys. The nerds would just gradually go extinct. But now the women get to enjoy sex with the sort of guys they actually want to have sex with, then eventually end up reproducing with the guys who will actually pay for their basic necessities.
Of course these guys don’t think about this much. If they did think about it, they wouldn’t sign up for the deal. They’re kept “busy” by society and by the women they marry. “Busyness” is very important, it keeps you from actually thinking about what goes on. It’s the main purpose that work serves in today’s society. Do you ever notice this, the fact that every arrangement in society only works as long as people don’t think too deeply about it?
Who would sign up for a minimum wage job if they realized a minimum wage used to afford you a home? Who would pay into a pension fund, if they realized there won’t be a pension by the time they retire? Who would have children if they realized what climate change is going to do to our planet? Who would marry a woman and buy an expensive ring for her and jump through numerous hoops, if you realized that same woman used to put out for a guy who happened to have a fancy haircut and went to the gym when she was twenty?
It’s a good thing most people don’t think a lot. No societal arrangement of ours really continues to work when people think through what’s going on.
This question is even harder for men who want children. The meek provider will technically win on a genetic level, but get none of the bonding a relationship with a young 20-something would create. The marriage becomes transactional. Babies in exchange for a wife that *used to be hot* and other guys got to experience the peak. You get middle age, chores, and the exhaustion of being a parent while your libidos dry up and looks fade completely.
Women who marry in their early 20s file for divorce in their mid thirties in order to experience the interesting and free life they feel they missed out on. People who are not really grown up and don’t know themselves don’t bond very well.
If a man wants children, and if a woman wants children, they had better want middle age, chores and exhaustion and diminished libidos. Since that is what it involves except in fairy tales, or maybe for the very rich.
So it’s all transactional and all notions of “love” are fictions meant to paper over the essentially transactional nature of human reproduction.
And you have the nerve to call me “irritating”.
No.
I, and other clear-eyed men, understand the raw deal of this Hell Realm.
Speaking of “Hell”, there will be “Hell” to pay.
And it’s not going to be pretty.
And all of the chaos and pain can be laid at the feet of you hypergamous women.
You women truly express the nature of this Hell Realm.
You loved to be choked during sex (when you’re not seeking money)
Kali.
Ruthless.
In no way civilizational.
How on earth is it transactional for both and women to need to do a lot of chores and to be worn down by the duties of parenthood????? I don’t see the transaction that you are talking about. It’s that way with having dogs, too, or elderly relatives; a lot of work. You don’t get out of that by marrying young.
So in this mindset you can justify the marriage to the middle aged woman for pragmatic reasons – but they want love. And they will be about to find some guy who doesn’t think this way and treats then like a queen.
I agree that love isn’t a real thing and it just masks the obvious genetic calculations being performed, but I can’t think my way out of it just because I know what it is. I wish it was possible. I want love and I want a family. But reality hits hard
Do men who want kids and get married think they can handle the responsibility or do they not think about it? I work a provider job and maybe would’ve found a wife but I always feels like I’m 2 weeks away from disaster. The anxiety and depression comes in waves and sometimes it gets bad and I don’t know if I can survive another day. I find it very stressful trying to perform well enough at my job not to get fired, do chores, and deal with the problems of life. Signing up for 20+ years of being unable to fail sounds like too much. I’ve felt like this since I was about 12 years old and the daily passive SI never goes away. Always on the edge of burn out and collapse. Maybe healthy normal people are optimistic instead of being pessimistic catastrophizer.
I would rather have her in her 20s tbh. Divorce in 30s sounds nice vs a lifetime of disappointing decline
Love You Too!
Interesting article.
Since female hypergamy only seems to be getting more extreme unfortunately, perhaps the only solution for LSWMs is aggressive looksmaxxing. There are accounts I follow on Instagram like kokohayashi and _oscarpatel_ that offer good advice on face, neck and posture exercises that increase your physical attractiveness and also improve your health (better breathing, lower risk of sleep apnea etc.).
I’m an old man who used to be a “prominent figure” in the “Red Pill” community around 2009-2012, and I can tell you that neck hypertrophy is a high ROI endeavor. Don’t neglect it.
“It’s just not a very nice world to bring people into, and why would I consciously do that when I can choose not to?”
Stacey Waring, 40, a nurse from Nottingham, says global uncertainty has made her think twice about starting a family . . . “If I think of the childhood that I had, I was one of the last generations to grow up playing outside without a mobile phone, and it’s very different now,” she adds.
But she says she feels lucky to live at a time when people have more choice about whether to start a family.
“If I’d had children, I’d have had to reduce my hours at work,” she says. I’m a huge traveller and go away whenever I can in my camper van, which I wouldn’t be able to do if I had children.” (https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgzdq23xpgo)
There’s a lot of that going around. It doesn’t sound like she is desperate to find a guy. But she does enjoy traveling!!
Retard genes are phasing themselves out.
We have 3 children, planning for 4. They spend virtually all their time outside with their mother and their friends. She works part time.
Take what you want, and pay for it.
There is a very big difference between a filthy slut and a disgusting whore – much bigger than the difference when measured from the perspective of the pure virgin.
Only the 22 year virgin gets the 32 year old monied up chad.
“ There is a very big difference between a filthy slut and a disgusting whore”
This is wisdom.
Worth repeating.
This article has less to do with dating, and a lot more to do with your own internal psychosexual condition, than I think you realize yet.
Questions for you:
> What kind of man would you be attracted to, if you were a heterosexual woman but otherwise unchanged from who you presently are? How about if you were the same person you are now but had been a woman from birth?
> What do you believe the ‘woman version’ of you would think of who you presently are right now, if they knew everything about you? How about if they only knew your public-facing persona?
> If the ‘woman version’ of you were married to who you presently are, how would they feel about it? How would you feel about it? What type of dynamic do you believe would exist between the two of you?
They don’t want to know any of those things. They want to channel 4Chan.
If “ifs” and “buts” were candy and nuts, we’d all have a merry Christmas.
Sorry Tryptie, but your attempted hypothetical/diagnostic questions are inherently incomprehensible, probably an expression of your own particular nature, and not applicable to the “normies”
If even hypothetically considering my questions is incomprehensible to you, that probably means you are extremely dissociated from the feminine side of your own inherent nature. Which is something we all have by the way, regardless of physiology.
You, Mehen, of all the people here, could benefit from paying attention to what I’ve said. Like half of the shit you say about women is you projecting your own inner conflicts, and shit that you have repressed in various ways. Women are not a foreign species you know. I think you should try to understand your own anima, with the caveat that you’ll need to engage with them as they are, and not as you wish they were. I know you’d learn a few surprising things about yourself, and you’d probably come out of it feeling less distressed in the end.
I think you are completely off the mark, Tryptie. One thing I know, is that I was once a Sensitive Young Man. More than most. I grew up with idealized notions of female nature. Even after I became “Red Pilled” by the ”Manosphere” I still maintained a vestigial hope that such knowledge would give me the means to acquire “True Love”. I admit freely that I was naive at the time. I eventually became Blackpilled and I stand by that conclusion. And yet, even just a few months ago, I was still indulging my empathic nature to put myself in the shoes of a woman whom I once had a life-altering relationship with, and who later USED ME for her own purposes. I really bent over backwards to understand her from her own perspective. That was my undoing and downfall. To any Sensitive Young Men reading: do not ever allow your sensitivity to try to “see things” from the females’ side to dissuade you from your purpose. To do so will only weaken you. I’m not suggesting that you lose your humanity, I’m just saying that you need to look out for your own interests and don’t allow your vulnerabilities… Read more »
> Busyness” is very important, it keeps you from actually thinking about what goes on. It’s the main purpose that work serves in today’s society. Do you ever notice this, the fact that every arrangement in society only works as long as people don’t think too deeply about it?
YES
Wow bro you’re really overthinking this, try to have a normal one.
>This is clown world stop taking things so seriously none of this matters.
>Wagghhh the girl I want to smash had another boyfriend, I’m really upset about this. The other guys on 4chan will call me a cuck.
>The world might be being destroyed, and I’m going to be a rotting corpse in 40 years. But this is what keeps me up at night. I will never be happy.
lol
First off, women don’t start to look to marry a guy when they approach 30. It is more like when they start to approach 40. To the extent that that still happens. Secondly, a lot of zoomer women won’t seek to marry at all, due to lack of interest. They like their job and their friends a their neighbors and their Golden Retriever. I live in an area where there are a lot of young people and what I see are young women out in groups of seven or eight, striding along in sexy outfits, and also smaller groups of two or three depressed looking guys. I don’t see a lot of couple, or at least a lot fewer than I would expect. I think those guys would be deliriously happy to marry any of those young ladies no matter what her past, and no matter how much they knew and thought about it, unless the guy is actually retarded. Also, lots of men want to have kids these days. Not so many young women do. (“Among young adults without children, men are more likely than women to say they want to be parents someday.” Pew Research, Feb. 15, 2024).… Read more »
Nice post kareninca thank you for being a voice of reason.
“ It is guys who have low self esteem who care about their wife’s sexual past, and women who have low self esteem who care about their husband’s sexual past.”
Fucking LOL.
Don’t get me started.
Seriously, don’t get me started.
Your bilateral distribution of “concern” is noted, however.
A lot of people who have low self esteem can’t imagine what it is like to have high self esteem, and to see the world through that lens.
“High self-esteem” is one of those concepts like “intrinsic worth” which are similar to religious notions of “worth before God”
I used to argue with therapists about this.
I’ve now realized most therapists are PMC faggots. Upper middle class nonces who have no understanding of the struggle of the “lower classes”.
The only “worth” a man has in this world is his suitability as a mate.
Well, that’s not actually true, given my copious quoting of “The Psychopath’s Bible”.
There are men — men whom I have hoped to reach on this blog — who are contemplating the meaning of a life with no wife or family.
This tragic reality seems to be more and more possible by the day.
At the very least, we should repeal the 19th.
Wouldn’t you agree?
I’m not asking you, as a female autist.
I’m asking the entirety of females.
I thought that you had had great romantic success, and that you could have married easily. So what’s your problem? If you didn’t want to marry and have a family, well, that was your decision, right?
You’ve claimed countless times that it is unethical to have kids due to how horrible life is. But here you are saying that not marrying and not having kids is a tragic reality.
Why should women give up their right to vote, just because some subset of guys want that? Lol. Such guys can go boss around their pet hamsters instead.
https://youtu.be/z3jV8GqodGw?si=Txn8UgpUcZoE-Twc
And you will never, ever be able to see the world through the male gaze. So maybe stop smugly telling us what to do or how we should be.
The posts here are almost all about how women see things, too, and about how women should be. And they are by men. So should all of these male posters also stop smugly saying things about what women should do or how they should be?
Are you actually Retard, posting as Charlie the Scorpion?
This is your brain on v-ganism
I haven’t been a vegan for seven years now.
“It is guys who have low self esteem who care about their wife’s sexual past”
It’s not jealousy, it’s primal disgust. It’s not something a woman could fully understand. Each sexual partner devalues her as a long term partner.
I don’t want to be mean, but that is what “low status” guys say to each other (partly in order to reduce competition for those tramps, haha). I don’t think Trump thought any of his wives were virgins, and he is the norm for high status men.
Per the studies, the better looking a man is, the more likely he is to think any given woman is attractive. The more unattractive a man is, the fussier he is. That explains why so many really handsome men marry women who aren’t especially pretty; they go for what they want, rather than what other guys tell them to want.
However, some guys are smart enough to have a high status world view while not having a great job or great looks. It is possible.
I wonder if better looking men put less value on sex because it’s easy to find with a variety of women. It’s a fun activity you do with friends like playing pickleball while unattractive men are fussy because he needs it to to be special and imagine a future with the woman. In my 20s I only wanted to find ‘the one’ and wouldn’t want to waste time on experimenting with women there was no potential future with. In my 30s I started having casual sex and now it doesn’t feel like a big deal and don’t catch feelings when having casual sex or group sex with acquaintances. Feel like I lost the ability to have crushes and imagine a future with them. After a while I lost interest in sex too and prefer to be alone with my routine. gone full sperg circle back to preferring solo hobbies.
I know this will be confusing but some of us chase authenticity, not status. The way you and Rintrah talk, we’re all supposed to be taking notes on what the high status archetype is, and dutifully complying. I don’t know about anyone else but I could not give any less of a fuck about what anyone else says is “high status” in romantic preferences. If a person cannot even pursue love, the supposed deepest and most raw form of connection in life, without deferring to the playbook of what will gain them status among the other humonkeys, then they are HOPELESSLY fake and not qualified to have a relationship with anyone, of any kind. Think about it. If the primary operating system for your love behavior is whether or not something will rise you in the mythological ranks of society, then that is your operating system everywhere, which means love and every other form of relationship you ever have is just putting up a socially optimized facade to get what you want, which at its core is deception. If you behave this way to secure or maintain a romance, your love is literally a lie. The only reason anyone would… Read more »
I was actually trying to say what you are saying, but putting it in a way that Rintrah and LSWMales can get. That is why I talk about status but then at the end of the each post essentially say to drop the status thing. Maybe you aren’t getting to the end, or maybe I am being too subtle.
If I just write “status is for idiots” (which is what I believe; obviously; I’m a Christian) they will immediately tune out.
Sorry that I angered you, lol. Maybe you should read more carefully before becoming enraged, lol.
What you wrote was pretty simple minded, albeit true (unlike your racist posts, which are truly sick). It will go over well since it is coming from a guy. If I wrote something like that I would just be told “you are lying women only care about status you are gaslighting us, we have to pursue status.”
And, no doubt you are also (falsely) inferring that I think that modern American sexual practices are good. I don’t. But that is a totally different question.
“ If the primary operating system for your love behavior is whether or not something will rise you in the mythological ranks of society, then that is your operating system everywhere, which means love and every other form of relationship you ever have is just putting up a socially optimized facade to get what you want,”
What do the hypothetical people in your paragraph “want” and why do they want it?
Checkmate, bigot.
Why do people want what they want…
Well, I don’t feel like ‘status’ is everything.
It seems to be missing ‘class’ for starters.
For example, I don’t know a single elite (they don’t mingle with the help), so I can play no status games with them at all.
Economic class prevents me from ever pair-bonding with the Queen of Oz, Gina Rheinhart, which would be like being chained to Jabba the Hut. So, in a backhanded way, there is the ‘problem of good’ manifesting again.
“ Per the studies, the better looking a man is, the more likely he is to think any given woman is attractive. The more unattractive a man is, the fussier he is.”
Show me the studies. What you say doesn’t comport with my experience in any way whatsoever.
“ That explains why so many really handsome men marry women who aren’t especially pretty; they go for what they want, rather than what other guys tell them to want.”
This may be true for certain successful men who look for a helpmeet to assist them in their quest for greater power and influence.
Such men also tend to have affairs, which their helpmeet wives dolefully accept as the price for being with a “successful” man. Surely you have observed this.
“Men who rated themselves as more attractive were more likely to rate others (both women and men) as more attractive.” (https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/social-instincts/201507/when-men-arent-good-looking-they-think) Not exactly on point; I’ll work on it. I read the studies I referred to ages ago, but this is interesting too. Handsome men in general do have more affairs; they have more opportunity. They do so whether or not their spouse is attractive. Women who work have more affairs; more opportunity. I’ve seen plenty of marriages between handsome men and homely women, and it wasn’t a helpmate situation. My next door neighbor, a very handsome man with a stellar job, married a homely lady 16 years his senior who already had kids. A staggeringly homely woman I know who has a great career in IT has a husband who looks like Richard Gere. It is common in small town areas, like the one I grew up in, for women to marry guys for their looks; the woman has the brains and ambition and tells the guy what to do and he is happy with that. My father told me that he thought I would give up on finding someone as smart as me and would marry a guy for his… Read more »
As an aside, most psychology is bunk.
I don’t think that’s exactly right.
There are women with what is known as a “high dopaminergic drive” whom are highly sexual.
They are high-dopamine and high-testosterone.
These are the women who crave “high intensity”
They score high on “novelty seeking” in the Big Five tests.
These are the “sluts” in the best sense of the word.
They are not mid fatties who whore themselves out.
I’m guessing most readers here have had no interaction with this type.
I only had an experience with this type, once.
Once.
And it ruined me.
https://youtu.be/Ad9mlvyA84E?si=iNvf59wU1qgKUW2z
Ah, takes me back…
Young love: David Bowie – ‘Tis a Pity She Was a Whore
I don’t care what your vote count says, I think you’re right on all counts. I don’t think women really are capable of understanding this just as men aren’t capable of understanding what pregnancy and childbirth feel like from either a physical or emotional POV.
if someone feels a certain way, or has a need you don’t have, you can either choose to honor those feelings as you can, or tell them their feelings are invalid and that they should just get with the program.
That’s ultimately very nasty. That’s precisely what “society” does to men who feel these historically normal and ancient feelings about sexual propriety, and by “society,” I mean each person who chooses to respond in a demeaning and invalidating way.
In this case, that’s kareninca. I wonder if she also whines that men don’t open up about their feelings, as if there aren’t reasons for that.
If you pick up an anthropology text you’ll find that different human societies have had different sexual practices, both in the past and now. I’m not “dishonoring” LoveYa’s feelings of disgust. Maybe he would disgust me, and I would not want that to be denied; that would be gaslighting. I am saying that that is him; he is welcome to have those feelings. But that is not a universal human thing. He is saying that it is “primal,” as if it were universal. You’re welcome to look to your preferred societies (e.g. Northern European in your case) and say “that’s what I feel too”, but that doesn’t mean that there aren’t others. So relying on the existence of some “primal feeling of disgust” is not any proof of anything; it is just proof that you feel it yourself. Rather than a “primal feeling of disgust”, one might sit and wait for Christ’s guidance in how to see any particular situation, and be guided by His Grace. Coming up with some stupid rule about how to think of how someone has acted in the past is not the Christian path. I don’t sit around thinking about guys and their thoughts and… Read more »
I think virginity is valued almost universally by men across cultures and across time. I think I can speak for the vast majority. 8 think there is a significant number of men who are far disconnected from their primal feeling on this matter, or blinded from them. It’s alarming for women to hear but I think it’s nearly universal. We’ve lost our way.
You can think whatever you want to but you you’ve never take an anthropology course and you are wrong. Try to broaden your education.
Love you too!
Good…good…I can feel your anger. Use your aggressive feelings, boy. Let the hate flow through you…
https://youtu.be/9Xc-WxSoYp4?si=QhVakPpJy1uQmMd-
Zoomer males will sometimes be disregarded by Zoomer females over a mozzerella stick:
https://x.com/joeybeastmarket/status/2059043954478264531?s=46
Be sure to neurotically self-monitor yourselves Zoomer males — female hypergamy has just been turbocharged on steroids.
Unless….?
(We don’t want to “go there”)
The person who sent out that tweet claimed to have just recently overheard a woman telling the story to a friend. However, versions of that story have been making the rounds for years. I think it is likely invented, certainly by the present tweeter and probably entirely. Google AI sets an early story of this kind in 2024, and it was a guy who rejected a girl because of how she ate a mozzarella ball.
Why invent problems, there are enough problems.
Perhaps you are correct.
On the other hand, the tweet has 18k likes and nearly 500 (mostly funny) comments.
I reviewed the first hundred comments and not a single one contained the Reddit “Ackshually” correction one often finds on Tweets of the sort you have characterized above.
So while you may be correct, I remain skeptical of your interpretation.
In any case, there is no doubt that younger generations of women have been emboldened to indulge their hypergamous pickiness to levels never seen before.
I suspect this is the underlying fact you are attempting to obscure with your squid-ink.
Ah, just wait and one of those HPV infested whores could be yours one day. Just study really hard and get yourself that high paying job. You can even get cancer in your throat if you are lucky.
I recommend calisthenics for young men.
https://youtube.com/shorts/Fv3PLMI5Xlo?si=59XGvlKrLcbSvio1
I judge by the contents of this article (which may or may be factious) that our beloved blog writer Radagast Rintrah here will stay loyal to his waifu (an imaginary idealized woman that exists only in his head) rather than engaging with the real women that exist around him within the material world.
Perhaps a miracle were to happen and a virgin would throw herself at a mentally ill man in his thirties, but I would dare guess that the character who wrote this article would find unhappiness and misery even with that arrangement.
For example: Maybe she’s a virgin, but she’s also a liberal who likes Palestine, for the perfectionist with bias, there is always a flaw.
Life loves its little jokes, for example, my continued virginity.
Mayhaps I myself will die at the altar of the ideal waifu.
Mayhaps not.
Life is such a roller-coaster of twists and turns. Why. To be able to calculate every potentiality and every possibility. To see where your life takes you. You would need to be omnipresent.
“ I judge by the contents of this article (which may or may be factious) “
Hmm
“Factious” is an adjective used to describe people, groups, or environments that are marked by internal division, rivalry, and factional conflict. The word comes from the Latin factio, meaning “a political group” or “faction.” Historically, it was often used in political and religious contexts to describe people who were seen as stirring up dissension within a larger body. Core meaning A factious person or group: • promotes division, • forms cliques or factions, • undermines unity, • or engages in partisan infighting. It usually carries a negative connotation — implying that the conflict is self-interested, destabilizing, or destructive rather than principled. Historical and political usage The word appears often in: • political philosophy, • history, • and older literature. For example: • The American Founders frequently worried about “factions” destroying republican government. • In monarchic Europe, nobles who schemed against each other were often described as factious. • Religious schisms were sometimes described as factious disputes. Tone and flavor “Factious” is more elevated and literary than everyday words like: • divisive, • partisan, • quarrelsome, • or sectarian. It suggests not just disagreement, but a group breaking into competing camps. Example sentences • “A factious senate paralyzed the government.” •… Read more »
Sounds pretty Jewish.
Cute
https://youtube.com/shorts/qkYzJtoAsGQ?si=y4vvPrYmW9S8Itlg
Traditional dating and marriage does not work for all the reasons Rin gives. Here’s how to succeede as a man. Date more than one woman at a time. When she breaks up with you, it’s no big deal because you haven’t been obsessing over her.
No, this is not being mean. Women like sex too. They all date around hoping to find that perfect husband, or what ever they’re looking for.
I am about to post what the kids today call “cringe.” Apologies in advance. When Mehen was a young tyke, around 15 years of age, I became enamored with Stephen King’s “Dark Tower” series. At that point in time I was already a fan of “Spaghetti Westerns” (which are known mostly by Americans as Sergio Leone’s famous films, but there are others). The “Dark Tower” universe (at least in the first few books) was saturated with the vibes of “Spaghetti Westerns”, but also contained elements of Arthurian legends of Knights and whatnot. It was also peppered with pop-culture references to modern day living, due to the “portals between worlds” and “time jumps” and other such sci-fi tropes. How could any geeky teenage male resist? Now, several decades later, with certain experiences under my belt, I find myself recalling a particular scene in the first (most impressionistic and surreal) book. The protagonist “Roland Deschain” had been tracking the “Man In Black” through a hardscrabble desert, and along the way, encountered a young boy from 1980’s New York, due to the weird portals and timeline jumps in his (rapidly deteriorating) world. At one point, after setting up camp and a campfire, after… Read more »
Yes. The scene occurs in The Gunslinger, the first volume of The Dark Tower by Stephen King. It is one of the strangest and most hallucinatory sequences in the entire series. Roland and the boy Jake encounter what is called an “oracle” inhabiting a stone circle or “speaking ring” in the mountains. The entity is not a benevolent goddess in the traditional sense — it is closer to a supernatural feminine intelligence mixed with a succubus, nature spirit, prophetess, and demon.  The oracle first psychically ensnares Jake through sexual and instinctual forces, almost consuming him. Roland rescues Jake using a jawbone talisman taken earlier from another demonic encounter. Then, after restraining Jake safely at camp, Roland deliberately returns alone to commune with the oracle himself. Before entering the ring, he takes mescaline.  King describes the mescaline as something that “wakes you up all the way for a little while,” and the drug radically alters Roland’s perception as he approaches the oracle.  The resulting scene is intensely psychedelic and erotic. The oracle manifests not as a fixed body but as wind, scent, pressure, sexuality, and prophetic consciousness. Roland experiences a kind of ritualized sexual union with the entity… Read more »
The scene is deliberately written as a kind of occult initiation — disorienting, sexual, prophetic, and spiritually contaminated all at once. It is less “fantasy exposition” and more like a peyote vision filtered through desert mysticism, Jungian symbolism, and horror. A few important details often get overlooked. First, the oracle is not merely a fortune-teller. Roland explicitly senses it as: “a demon with no shape, only a kind of unformed sexual glare with the eye of prophecy”  That phrase matters because it tells you the being is fundamentally desire without form. It exists as appetite, seduction, psychic gravity. It does not have a stable body. Instead, it manifests through atmosphere: • perfume, • wind, • emotional pressure, • erotic suggestion, • and telepathic imagery. King describes it almost like an emanation from the landscape itself. The mescaline is also more important than people sometimes realize. Roland does not take it recreationally. He takes it almost ritually — like a sacrament or shamanic technology. He says it “wakes you up all the way.”  Once it begins working, King’s prose changes dramatically. Roland’s cognition becomes hyper-associative and symbolically overloaded: • every sensory input expands in significance, • objects lose ordinary… Read more »
“ An especially interesting detail is that the oracle repeatedly tries to emotionally soften Roland. It does not only want sex; it wants emotional surrender. It pleads with him not to be cold. Roland resists this and repeatedly demands prophecy instead.”
Roland Deschain is one of the more psychologically layered protagonists in modern fantasy. He is simultaneously a knight-errant, addict, traumatized survivor, spiritual pilgrim, and emotionally stunted obsessive. A useful way to understand him is as a man whose entire psyche has been organized around duty after catastrophic loss. Here’s a structured profile: ⸻ Core Psychological Structure 1. Identity Organized Around Mission Roland’s defining feature is that he has almost no self outside his quest for the Dark Tower. The Tower is not merely a goal: • it becomes his organizing principle, • moral compass, • substitute for intimacy, • defense against grief, • and justification for sacrifice. Without the quest, Roland risks psychological collapse because the quest gives coherence to unbearable trauma and emptiness. This resembles: • extreme ascetic warrior psychology, • trauma-based compulsivity, • and in psychodynamic terms, a defensive fusion of identity with vocation. He is less a man pursuing a mission than a man held together by one. ⸻ Trauma Psychology 2. Chronic Complex Trauma Roland is essentially the survivor of a civilizational apocalypse. He loses: • his childhood innocence, • his first love, • his friends, • his culture, • his homeland, • and eventually almost… Read more »
Knight-errant refers to a wandering knight who travels from place to place seeking: • adventure, • quests, • moral tests, • combat, • or opportunities to uphold ideals like honor, justice, and chivalry. The term comes from medieval Europe, especially from Arthurian legends and chivalric romances. A knight-errant typically: • has no fixed assignment or territory, • roams the world voluntarily, • lives according to a personal code, • and often acts independently of governments or armies. Classic examples include: • Sir Lancelot • Sir Gawain • Don Quixote (a satirical/deconstructed version) The “errant” part comes from the same root as “to err” meaning “to wander.” ⸻ Psychologically and symbolically, the knight-errant represents: • the solitary seeker, • the wandering moral warrior, • the person pursuing meaning through ordeal, • or someone driven by an absolute ideal. That is why the term fits Roland Deschain so well: • he wanders through a decaying world, • follows a rigid personal code, • pursues an almost sacred quest, • and sacrifices ordinary life for transcendent purpose. Modern descendants of the knight-errant archetype include: • wandering gunslingers in Westerns, • ronin in Japanese fiction, • lone detectives, • post-apocalyptic drifters, • and certain… Read more »
In the unlikely event anyone reading feels motivated to explore The Gunslinger/The Dark Tower, do not, under any circumstances watch the film adaptation. Not the film, not even the trailer. It’s an abomination that even the most blue-haired Quirk Chungi will tell you was a colossal failure. The most charitable criticism is that the film adaptation was meant for the “YA” a.k.a “Young Adult” audience. This criticism doesn’t contain even the half of it. I fondly remember my “YA” books, such as “Choose Your Own Adventure” and the other one (I don’t remember the competitor to “Choose Your Own Adventure” perhaps another GenX’er can remind me) The main problem was that the protagonist “Roland Deschain” was CLEARLY described by Stephen King as resembling Clint Eastwood (which any young American boy would idealize at the time). This fact can be easily confirmed by flipping through the first editions of the books which contained beautiful oil paintings by Micheal Whelan. Truly beautiful paintings. The fans (mostly heritage Americans) demanded a film adaptation. What they got was an abomination. Look, I’m not entirely racist. I love Idres Elba as an actor. He’s one of the “good ones” (as far as I know). But… Read more »
Bro to bro, autism is not real. Stay away from women. Get jacked.
Except for you mother whom you should do everything for her.
Mangled syntax
Better English would be, “Except your mother, for whom you should do everything.”
Yup scorpion.
Also, get jacked means many things, not just weight lifting.
Do a sport. Also acceptable:
Serious running, trail running.
Cyclocross is awesome and the new thing right now.
Road biking.
Leo, there is no demonstration of masculine strength in running or cycling, and it’s not going to impress the girls. They don’t care about your VO2 max.
Did you see the video I posted with girls staring at male athletic feats that they could never duplicate?
I’m telling you, gymnastic calisthenics are extremely impressive. Unfortunately, I have a bad elbow so I can’t do it, but I wish somebody had recommended it when I was in school.
“there is no demonstration of masculine strength in running or cycling, and it’s not going to impress the girls. They don’t care about your VO2 max.” Not true. You should watch an Iron Man competition. Those men are warriors. And in the military running is equally as important as strength training, particularly because it develops endurance, mental fortitude, and discipline. I think I get what you’re implying though, that if you only ride a bike and run, your upper body will be physically undeveloped, but most well rounded athletes do it all. But if you think running and cycling is not manly, you must not have much experience doing either, and a strong VO2MAX is an essential factor in superior fitness, and if you as a man can’t run 3 miles without stopping or complete a 50 mile bike ride unsupported, that’s a weakness. I agree that gymnastic calisthenics is extremely impressive, but just like mountain climbers, I think that if you actually talked to people that do that you’ll find a good portion who are both cyclists and runners. I run, strength train, and ride a bike, and have a great VO2 max, and am personally impressed by any… Read more »