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Being constantly on the move. With a solid purpose in life. Resting well and not overworking yourself is how men preserve their drive into older age.

The Golden Mean of action. Neither excessive which causes burnout nor its opposite.

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Many such cases.

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How to keep an alpha; keep your looks, stay healthy and fertile. Be willing to make the sacrifices to have kids. Physical attraction trumps all the nuances of divorce fights. Its easier to just accept and keep your marriage vows. Technology has made leisure time so high where mental illness strikes. If you have time to argue, theres certainly more than enough resources to have kids. Its a choice for many women. Career women are rejecting their maternal instincts and brainwashed. Maybe theyre the lamdas.

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"Vital statistics: Once married to the journalist John Chenery. No children. Two cats."

That had to be written by another woman or a particularly catty homosexual. Damn.

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Two comments stand out to me.

- "The sad truth for any career woman is that an alpha male becomes less attractive, both emotionally and perhaps more importantly sexually, once he’s lost his drive…"

- "To be honest, I’d never once considered how he felt about our change in dynamic. The fact that the girl he had married was eclipsing him – this formerly proud man."

She became far less attractive to him much sooner than he did to her, both emotionally and sexually. One of the requirements of feminism (much like Gammahood) is the ability to lie to everyone, including one's self. Another is zero ability for introspection. The reward for playing feminist, of course, is that everything that happens is always everyone else's fault.

The Alpha (if she is to be believed he is) could give a rat's ass how successful she is, one way or another, as long as she is loyal, gives him her time and treats him right. (And even then, he may stray because he has options). But it ain't the fact that she eclipsed him. I have seen career women with stay at home husbands who clearly run the show with no income and do fine. The Alpha will compete with other Alphas, but are not "intimidated" by feminists. Coming home and telling your Alpha how important you are at work, does nothing for sex appeal maintenance.

The manner in which she describes him gives it away. "Her success caused the failures." No, it was the way you felt entitled to behave to him once you achieved the success that was the cause.

If he was a Delta, then laying on the couch being depressed might make her analyses correct. But then, she could never admit that he was a Delta to begin with in her post.

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Classic.

He chased her until she caught him.

She monkey branched from him to her career.

Shelved him in case he was needed.

Another woman took him off the shelf.

She stayed with her true love, herself.

The cats will provide company and comfort.

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"Find your drive, and perhaps you’ll also find that women are starting to see you in a more attractive light."

Besides the great advice, this is why I consistently return here. Vox's endless vitality and energy is contagious.

In the fallen world, energy and drive is even more necessary. Despair will only have you end up in Omega territory.

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Exercise, eating right and resting properly really helps to keep hormones in play and hence drive.

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Like it or not, there's a hierarchy in male/female relationships. The man is meant to the breadwinner while the woman is meant to care for the home and children thus making it easier for the man to be said breadwinner. There's a reason women lose respect for men when they aren't working and providing, and why men stray when the women aren't around taking came of them. It's because that's their intended role in life. Same with women, our intended role is to build and keep the family unit. It's why there's a natural ick factor when that balance is reversed. Similar to the feeling you get when you see an older woman with a younger man. It goes against nature. One doesn't have to like it but there's no sense in ignoring the reality of the fact.

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ants struggle winning anything

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22 hrs ago·edited 22 hrs ago

When all is said and done, which life would you choose? "...Then the plan was to buy a home in Sydney and have a family – five kids, to be precise. My dream was to be a stay-at-home mum." or "Once married to the journalist John Chenery. No children. Two cats..."

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It'd take some convincing to live in Australia or even there in Sydney. Taxes and fees, house prices, and electricity prices there are very high. Non-agency stabbings are on the rise.

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This is a general apology to any who I may have offended with my posts. This is not my pulpit. I forgot myself and overstepped. I apologize, and pray your forgiveness.

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For what it's worth, I found your comments insightful. Still, Sigma Game, Sigma Rules.

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23 hrs agoLiked by Vox Day

I'm all too familiar with this tale. When I became a surgical resident my 1st marriage imploded. I met my now husband who was also married and a surgical resident. His wife did not want kids and that killed their relationship. We met, totally hit it off, and now have been married for several years with 3 kids. We are very happy, but our relationship works because I opted to work very part-time basically to support his practice. He is the successful surgeon and my role is primarily wife, mom and some work on the side. Women and men need to stop denying the reality of this dynamic if they want happy marriages and families, but as scripture tells us, "men prefer darkness".

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Traditional gender roles exist for a reason. If the man no longer holds the role of protector and provider (either proverbially or in practice) then he loses his primary role as the man in the relationship and, as this woman’s husband did, slips into couch potato status.

It’s good for men to be hunters and women to be homemakers. I understand that several nuances exist, but my point is that when the wife starts wearing the pants in the relationship, disaster is imminent.

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Sorry, wrote an essay instead of answering your questions lol.

No I'm not a woman.

Yes I am Christian.

I don't know what context of "equality" you mean. Was Eve as physically strong as Adam? I doubt it. But there may have been other qualities she surpassed him in that are now exceeded by men. There's just so much speculation on the topic of God's plan for Paradise and plenty of saints disagree with each-other as one would expect on something so speculative.

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Adam's first wife was Lilith.

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When I speak of equality, I'm not referring to traits or skills or qualities; I'm speaking of status, of hierarchy. The hierarchy set down by God is very simple: God->Christ->Man->Woman->Child->Literally everything else.

There is no equality in authority. Man is not Christ, Man serves Christ. Woman is not Man, Woman serves Man. And so on. You could hypothetically imagine a really strong, tall, Amazon woman paired with a scrawny, weak, Short King, and the authority would still rest with the man, because that is the order set down by God. It has little to do with physical strength (although God of course foresaw women's rebelliousness and in His wisdom gave Man strength to quell it, as a general rule).

That's what I mean by equality, or rather the lack thereof: Who serves Whom? Who is Master, and Whom is Servant? We all serve a master, we are all servants of someone or something. The only choice we have is WHO we serve. The Bible commands women to obey their husband as they would the Lord, meaning her husband is the Lord's representative on Earth. They are not doing so. Instead, they choose to serve Uncle Sam (welfare), or their boss at work, or any random Chad on the streets, for a night or fifty. Is it any wonder that marriage has declined, when a man today knows that he would most likely get an unfit and unworthy servant of a wife?

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This is not a theological discussion, Soljin. Enough.

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Yes, sir. Apologies.

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There was an article that talked about how women never struggle with remembering names even at 80iq where as men start getting good with names at 120 iq but not under.

I can't find the study now. Is this the type of strengths and weaknesses you're referring to?

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I think I read this somewhere as well. Did that article mention that Nixon and Clinton had seeming superpowers to remember names of people they met only once?

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You're making me doubt my IQ and my status as a woman.

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Women never struggle with remembering names?

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No idea, the paper implied who was more likely or less likely.

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Ah. I can believe "more likely".

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All she ever had to do was quit working and pay him the attention she had in the beginning, and he'd have had many times over the career she had. It lights a fire under a man to know it's on him. She tore her house down trying to be the man. He was as badly taught as she was to let it happen.

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Not in the media business. He entered when it was going exclusively female and gay.

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"To be honest, I’d never once considered how he felt about our change in dynamic."

I feel confident in saying that is not the only thing she never once considered in regards to their relationship. He seems to have the played the role of useful prop, in several meanings of the word, to her Super Career Girl fantasy.

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"Now that I have the drive to complete my pokemon card collection, I am truly the Alpha."

- Gamma somewhere, reading this article.

I have yet to understand how some women stay with Gammas. When energized Gammas only demand to spend more of their provider wife's money on eccentric activities and proving Secret King status.

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Spergy women?

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Women frequently have to settle.

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Disturbing that even in these settlement the Gamma finds a way to complain about everything all the time and act like a victim.

Come to think of it, these wives tend to be childless.

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Man, have you paid close attention to the kind of woman gammas have when they are in a relationship?

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What a sad story. I wanted to be a stay-at-home mom and have a lot of kids, so when I got married, I stayed at home and got pregnant as soon as possible. Now we're still happily married, with children.

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