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men are more likely to be upset by a partner’s sexual infidelity, whereas women are more likely to become upset by a partner’s emotional infidelity.
Robin Dunbar • Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships
She operates on a man’s most basic emotions, and if she plays her role properly, she can transform a normally strong and responsible male into a childish slave. The Siren operates well on the rigid masculine type—the soldier or hero—just
Robert Greene • The Art of Seduction
And a common dynamic in therapists who have sex with a patient is the arousing, albeit self-serving, fantasy that their sexual attention is helping the patient’s self-esteem.
Michael J. Bader • Arousal
When husbands, fathers, and brothers are granted absolute power, their morality vanishes; they become tyrants.
Charlotte Gordon • Romantic Outlaws
Chaos, the eternal feminine, is also the crushing force of sexual selection. Women are choosy maters (unlike female chimps, their closest animal counterparts39). Most men do not meet female human standards. It is for this reason that women on dating sites rate 85 percent of men as below average in attractiveness.
Jordan B. Peterson • 12 Rules for Life
Husband = Beta Before you think I’ve gone entirely mercenary, I’ll add this: “She married you because you are a provider, not because she was attracted to you. She’ll never be as attracted to you as she was to her previous Alpha Fucks.”
Rollo Tomassi • The Rational Male - The Players Handbook: A Red Pill Guide to Game
"They learn that males should dominate females, that strong men should dominate weaker men."
– bell hooks, The Will to Change
“onde o desejo de poder é primordial, o amor estará ausente”.
bell hooks • Tudo sobre o amor: novas perspectivas (Trilogia do Amor Livro 1) (Portuguese Edition)
Part of the low-effort belief is the idea that couples should be able to read each other’s minds: