That makes sense. At the end of the day, sex, flirting, how to hold a conversation, and other forms of socialization are just skills, and like all skills, they can be practiced and they can be taught. I think there’s a massive societal failing where nobody is formally or even informally taught these skills. People are expected to just stumble upon acquiring these skills or try to fill in knowledge gaps with movies or porn.
We have classes for various life skills like cooking or how to drive a car. We have classes for otherwise trivial tasks like how to use a smartphone or how to use Excel. We even have classes for some socializing skills like how to give a speech or how to hone a radio voice. But for things like flirting or sex, forms of socialization that are essential parts of the human condition and that are absolutely harder than adding a new column in Excel, they are somehow unable to be taught.
This leads to massive mystification of sex, which ties back to what you’ve said. Societal mystification of sex will never compare to the reality on the ground, which leads to resentment and susceptibility to reactionary politics when their attempts inevitably fail. If the only thing they have are porn where none of the porn actors actually feel good in the sex positions they are in and movies that don’t even resemble real life dating in the slightest, then they are pretty much set up for failure.
This is also where those pickup artists seep in. They push out various “how to flirt with chicks” and other “life hacks,” essentially making the sex equivalent of a “how to do laundry” or “how to tie your shoe” instructional videos, which ropes people into becoming reactionary incels. I don’t know how leftist orgs can offer socializing classes or if they are even capable of doing so. But preaching about how incels are misogynists hasn’t gotten us anywhere. If anything, the problem is getting worse because I don’t think any of the OG redpill pickup artists are as prominent as Andrew Tate. Obviously, what we are currently doing isn’t working.
That makes sense. At the end of the day, sex, flirting, how to hold a conversation, and other forms of socialization are just skills, and like all skills, they can be practiced and they can be taught. I think there’s a massive societal failing where nobody is formally or even informally taught these skills. People are expected to just stumble upon acquiring these skills or try to fill in knowledge gaps with movies or porn.
We have classes for various life skills like cooking or how to drive a car. We have classes for otherwise trivial tasks like how to use a smartphone or how to use Excel. We even have classes for some socializing skills like how to give a speech or how to hone a radio voice. But for things like flirting or sex, forms of socialization that are essential parts of the human condition and that are absolutely harder than adding a new column in Excel, they are somehow unable to be taught.
This leads to massive mystification of sex, which ties back to what you’ve said. Societal mystification of sex will never compare to the reality on the ground, which leads to resentment and susceptibility to reactionary politics when their attempts inevitably fail. If the only thing they have are porn where none of the porn actors actually feel good in the sex positions they are in and movies that don’t even resemble real life dating in the slightest, then they are pretty much set up for failure.
This is also where those pickup artists seep in. They push out various “how to flirt with chicks” and other “life hacks,” essentially making the sex equivalent of a “how to do laundry” or “how to tie your shoe” instructional videos, which ropes people into becoming reactionary incels. I don’t know how leftist orgs can offer socializing classes or if they are even capable of doing so. But preaching about how incels are misogynists hasn’t gotten us anywhere. If anything, the problem is getting worse because I don’t think any of the OG redpill pickup artists are as prominent as Andrew Tate. Obviously, what we are currently doing isn’t working.