"In a conversation the other day with a female friend, she mentioned something about watching the movie Cinderella (Disney version) with her daughter, and the conversation turned to the topic of chivalry and romance.
This got me thinking about the modern (and destructive) concept of romance held by many women, and I wondered how much TV and movies have assisted in the corruption of dating and marriage motives.
Ask any hapless beta chump what he thinks "romance" is, and you are likely to hear a bunch of crap about opening doors for women, candlelit dinners, and bouquets of roses. This is the beta-game idea of romance, and it is clearly a losing proposition.
I don't have a daughter, but I am going to go out on a limb and assume that Disney's Cinderella is probably one of the first "romance" oriented movies that American women are exposed to when young. When you take a closer look at how the story is framed, you get an entirely different perspective on what women define as romance. It turns out that romance isn't pretty.
To sum up the Disney plot line:
1) Pretty, but insecure girl is oppressed by - wait for it - other females (evil stepmother/stepsisters).
2) Pretty, insecure girl makes it to the royal ball and catches the eye of Prince Charming.
3) Cinderella is forced to flee to meet midnight fairy-godmother deadline.
4) Prince Charming moves heaven and earth to find Cinderella.
5) Happily ever after ensues, Cinderella tells stepmother/stepsisters to go suck it, she got the prince.
The typical beta male, if exposed to this story, only sees the concept from a male perspective. That perspective is that you should pursue the woman of your dreams, and your knightly pursuit of her will win her heart.
Ha. Haha. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
Foolish beta, thy balls shall be as blue as thine heart. Entering this story with your eyes open, you get a much clearer look at the greasy, clanking hypergamous machinery behind the whole operation. Let's take a couple red pills and re-examine the story:
1) Pretty, but insecure girl is oppressed by - wait for it - other females.
Well, of course. There is nothing women enjoy more than playing victim. It also reflects a reality most women can identify with. The real socio-sexual oppressors of women are other women.
2) Pretty, insecure girl makes it to the royal ball and catches the eye of Prince Charming.
Prince Charming. Who the fukk is Prince Charming? I'll tell you - he is the necessary plot device that allows the final triumph of Cinderella's hypergamy. If you've snagged Prince Charming, you have clearly triumphed over those Mean Girls(tm) who have you scrubbing the stove and sorting lentils. You will note that she does not find her redemption in a marriage to Accountant Charming, or Auto Mechanic Charming, or Insurance Salesman Charming. Oh no, nothing less than The Prince will afford her the undeniable triumph over those other bytches.
It would be easy to imagine that if life sucked for Cinderella, she could have found a more pleasant life as the wife of the village baker, or perhaps the wife of a storekeeper. But that would not provide an opportunity for spiking the football right in your rivals' faces, would it?
Note also that it is not Prince Reliable, or Prince Mechanical Aptitude, or Prince Treats-His-Mother-Nicely. Prince Charming, no less. When your heart craves a victory lap, nothing but a total win will do.
So now we see that the prince in this story exists only to be something that there is only one of. Just a trophy, nothing more. Still feeling romantic, Mr. Beta? If you're paying attention, you should be feeling sick.
3) Cinderella forced to flee to meet midnight fairy-godmother deadline.
Not much to say here, other than the fleeing is a necessary plot device to set the prince up to pursue her. Modern women simply substitute flakiness and shyt-tests. See how perfect this story suits women? Even Cinderella's fleeing (shyt test) is not her fault; it just happened that way. Hamsters, rejoice.
4) Prince Charming moves heaven and earth to find Cinderella.
An alpha male with an unrequited crush is a motivated soul. But instead of availing himself of the assumed ocean of eager, available women, he searches for Cinderella. Yes, my dear, he only has eyes for you.
5) Happily ever after ensues, Cinderella tells stepmother/sisters to go suck it, she got the prince.
And this is where the rubber really hits the road. This is the emotional jackpot for the female ego/libido. Carriages? Footmen? A gala event? Ha. Nothing, nothing compares to the opulent luxury of an undeniable triumph over your sexual competition.
And this is where I believe the damage takes place. Perhaps the process of priming the female soul for alpha widowhood begins even earlier than originally thought.**
This story and all its derivatives are basically a tale of a lottery winner, except in the hypergamous sense. But for every lottery winner, there are millions of poor, trailer-court occupants, pissing their dollars away on a billion-to-one chance of living in luxury. Playing to this impulse keeps women spending their youth on a shot at alpha lottery winnings that, for most, will never come. In isolation, this story would be just a fable. But our culture is made up of an unhealthy amount of this kind of thinking, and the additive effects of it are a key contribution to setting young women up for a lifetime of disappointment, followed by "settling" (defined as anything other than marrying an alpha).
And the lesson for beta males everywhere is that your notion of romance could not be more different than a woman's. For most women, romance is an alternate definition for sexual conquest, and triumphing over her rivals."
UMan - blog - If You Knew What She Meant by "Romance", You'd Stop Buying Her*Flowers