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Comment author: advancedatheist 02 December 2014 03:11:16PM *  -2 points [-]

The PUA blogger Roosh Valizadeh explains his:

Cultural Collapse Theory: The 7 Steps That Lead To A Complete Culture Decline

http://www.returnofkings.com/49185/cultural-collapse-theory-the-7-steps-that-lead-to-a-complete-culture-decline

Apparently a French talkshow host has found readers for his similar analysis of the situation in France:

French Curtains

http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/french-curtains_820204.html?nopager=1#

I find it fascinating that men who claim to have become skillful as PUA's, like Roosh, Heartiste and Vox Day, have come around to seeing the wisdom of patriarchal social conservatism. After exploring the dysfunctional world of female sexual freedom, they realize that our allegedly unenlightened forefathers had good reasons for keeping women under male authority.

Comment author: Lumifer 02 December 2014 04:27:38PM *  6 points [-]

they realize that our allegedly unenlightened forefathers had good reasons for keeping women under male authority

Yeah, these reasons boil down to MOAR POWAH TO ME!

I mean, it's a blatantly obvious power play -- they just want to have the power and women to not have the power. It is a valid instrumental reason :-/ the only thing it doesn't have much to do with "wisdom" or what's usually called "good reasons".