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When it comes to the gender war, impartiality is about as common as unicorn droppings.
Regardless of which side of the gender fence these agitators fall on, zero-sum thinking, adversarial framing, and generalizations are par for the course.
You seldom hear any of them admit that perhaps their views are being shaped by their own biases. They are unable to see that their past trauma, need for identity protection, or even profit incentives are influencing how they see the world.
Once in a while, though, some do admit to being wrong, even if they often do so unintentionally.
And today I have one such case to share with you all.
I actually featured this individual last year.
He runs a dating and relationship channel called The Undesirable Truth.
I’m sure from the name alone, some of you can already infer what his whole modus operandi is going to be… dishing uncomfortable truths or Red Pills about gender dynamics.
He achieves this by conducting street interviews with men and women in Miami under the guise of proving the Red Pill holds the monopoly on truth.
So, on one of his most recent episodes, he traveled to Barcelona and interviewed several residents there.
Out of all the interviews, one stood out for me. It was with a lovely young Spanish lady, and it centred around the topic of splitting bills.
Now, if you follow the gender war discourse, you already know just how contentious the whole topic of who pays for what is.
Women want men to pay, and if they don’t, they are labeled as cheapskates, while men say modern women are nothing more than gold diggers who only care about a man’s utility.
The Undesirable Truth assumed the lady would respond in kind, but she didn’t, much to his surprise.
She had no issue splitting the bills with her boyfriend.
When pressed “why not” by our interviewer, all she could do in the moment was muster a confused Pikachu face.
Clearly, this was not part of her reality. According to her, splitting bills is what normal, regular people do. His money is his money, and her money is her money. Anything other than that would be selfish.
Upon hearing this, The Undesirable Truth then asked an exceedingly stupid question.
He said, “What do you think about the Western culture where they are like, my money is her money and her money is hers?”
As if Spain were not a Western country.
Does he really think “Western” only refers to the United States?
Well, I have got news for him.
That Spanish girl is very much Western, as much as women in the UK, Germany, Sweden, or Australia are.
There seems to be two realities. Online vs offline
The problem with these online discussions about dating is that they are not representative of the real world.
The loudest and most divisive voices are what’s driving the agenda. This is what algorithms push because, unlike a more measured approach, it doesn’t spark engagement quite as much.
In reality, most people do not care, nor are they engaged in this heated conflict between the sexes on gender expectations. They are too busy living life.
It doesn’t mean the gendered strife doesn’t exist.
Or that the issues women and men complain about are being made up.
All I’m saying is that the way things are portrayed online is not nearly as bad in the real world.
Good women are everywhere
My dating experiences over the past 20 years (I’m 40, btw) have been just like what the Spanish lady describes. 8 times out of 10, the women I have met out there in the wild have been just like her, with only a minority being like what the redpillers would describe.
And guess what I do when I meet those “your money is my money” type of women? I ignore them and move on — they are not for me.
The fact that The Undesirable Truth is shocked that women like the Spanish lady exist is telling. It goes to show how being deeply entrenched in a particular line of thinking skews your perception of the world; all you will start to see is what you want to see.
The saddest part about all this is that most of these gender war influencers seldom experience the fallout from their rhetoric, at least not in the same way as their followers. It’s not uncommon to learn that some of them are partnered, even though they simultaneously profit from pushing distorted views that make connecting with the opposite sex difficult.
Go, touch grass
In a way, that is what The Undesirable Truth is doing by traveling and exposing himself to different people and ways of thinking.
He is metaphorically touching grass by expanding his horizons… whether or not that leads to him producing content with a balanced perspective remains to be seen.
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