George Lakoff, the cognitive linguist, argues that seemingly disparate groups which form political coalitions share underlying metaphors based on family structures. On the conservative side, he says that social conservatives and libertarian conservatives don't really have conflicting agendas because both share what he calls "strict father morality." They assume that we live in a harsh and dangerous world where men have to run things in a natural hierarchy, while the womenfolk and the children have to stay subordinate to men for their own protection. Strict fathers have the task of disciplining and toughening their children for the task of becoming self-reliant adults in the harsh and dangerous world. Therefore they oppose sexual freedom, on the social conservative side, and the welfare state, on the libertarian side, because both of these tend to weaken people's character and make them less capable of personal responsibility and independence.

This organic affinity also sheds light on why PUA bloggers have started to sound like Dark Enlightenment bloggers and Neoreactionaries: By getting all that exposure to the ugly way women behave when you remove the traditional constraints on their real preferences, you can see that our conservative ancestors had a legitimate point of view when they enforced patriarchal norms to keep women in line. Women's sexual freedom basically damages their ability to maintain a stable society.