This may get me tossed, but... It's been PLANNED this way, believe it or not, all that conspiracy BS? Not all BS.
Men have been conditioned in many ways, mass media being a primary (Think: Smurfs, GI Joe, He-Man/She-ra, thundercats, Snorks, even Heathcliff and Garfield - and now we look at the sitcoms, and see not a single intelligent man out there! Closest I know of is actually the cartoon, King of the Hill! Look at the commercials, too... How about Teen Mom, one of the stars is a violent user... and it's NOT the man! )
Men used to be able to make a "name" for themselves by being providers. Now, women not only can earn their own way, in several fields they OUT EARN male counterparts: Engineering and Nursing, for example. So the Beta male loses here.
With basic necessities met by their own jobs, women are "free" to pursue the men who make their 'ginas tingle: Alphas. Whether by looks, breeding, money, social dominance (which can include the others, BTW), these men are able to be unpredictable, untamable, STIMULATING in the lizard hind-brain of women.
Betas are less aggressive, less dominant, and less unpredictable - so they are left out.
Permisterally, I just find women so stimulating I want to BE one... Find a nice lipstick lez, have frequent screaming sex, all is good.
But the primary differences between the sexes (not genders in this discussion, please) has been aggression and thought patterns.
Male aggression: Dominance through physical power or s*******, thinking in logical linear patterns.
Woman aggression: Social control (IE, dominance via words, seducing, insinuating, etc; excluding those who are not "good enough" by whatever criteria); thinking more emotionally controlled, and often erattic and unstable because of that.
Now, use mass media to promulgate the memes: Girls can do ANYTHING boys can do, which soon turns to girls can do it better. Girls should be in charge, they are MORE intelligent, MORE capable, etc. Men are oafs who need to be directed and cleaned up after. Women are superior. Men are deadbeats, womanizers, users, can't handle youngren, are afraid of commitment, etc, etc, etc. Add in a feminized school system: how many male teachers do you have? Did YOU have, growing up? Do you meet?
Further, tell women they should be turned on by masculine endeavors (Strength training, weigh lifting, sports, competition) while making boys work in groups (group projects, anyone? Leadership by consensus?) and make it CRIMINAL for boys to behave like boys (call police on kindergarten boys kissing WILLING girls, for example? Or suspend a boy for drawing a soldier, or playing cowboys and indians, or kickball, or have him for making too much noise or not sitting stilll....) You get the idea.
I could go on, but this isn't an MRA board, so it's out of place. Look up Roissy.wordpress.com for dating advice, and FalseRapeSociety.com (I think that's the URL) for some of the horror stories out there...
Worst part is, Men are getting ANGRY. They are noticing. Even someone like me, who WANTS to be a woman, believes this has become an systemic use of female power, and as a man (still got all the parts, and the strength), I'm *** to support the double-standard: It's not cute when a woman hits a man in the balls, unless it's ALSO cute when a man hits a woman in her tits. It's NOT OK for a girl to scream about men (she doesn't want) noticing her, if she dresses to be noticed. It is ALSO not OK for her to bitch there are no good men around, if she pursues men who DO NOT WANT commitment. If you pursue a Bad Boy Biker with three kids by three women, YOU DESERVE WHAT HAPPENS TO YOU. YOU HAD to know it AHEAD OF TIME.
And marriage being what it is, forget about this as a LIFESTYLE, but think as a REALITY - Lots of WOMEN cheat, too. There's a reamister your mister looks a little like the mailman/UPS man/pool boy/guy on the wanted poster... And has black hair when both you and your wife are blond...
The US especially is circling the drain, but the rest of the Anglosphere isn't much better, and most of the Western world is falling apart. Really lousy, actually.
Wealth is accumulating in the hands of a VERY few, and corporations, while the middle class is shrinking, the permanent underclasses are getting larger and more violent, and even those who have lived through wars and have their youngren and grandyoungren at risk are talking REVOLUTION.
Not just Rednecks...
Not just Blacks...
Not just the Young, who always have their hormones running their mouths...
The older demographic, who have watched people die, who have family at risk, are saying enough is enough. We cannot ignore uns*******ed illegal immigration; we cannot ignore government wealth dispersals that take from YOU and ME to give to Charlie up the street, AND the Kennedy/Rockefeller/name whomever you want -> NOW, Soybean farmers, corn farmers, pig farmers, Monsanto, Kraft, McDonnel douglas, etc, etc, etc, ad finitum. less than half the population in the US is carrying the rest of the country. Think about that....
I don't want to get into the "women should know their place" meme, but... Maybe the Herd (society) shouldn't FORCE women to take on what was once a man's role, and make her feel like less of a woman if she wants to have a family. Or, if she SHOULD go out into the world and earn her way there, make her EARN it - she works as hard as everyone else, OK; she doesn't, can her. Oh, that's SEX DISCRIMINATION!
Double standard much?
Male emotions are bad, female ones are good.
Male thoughts are bad, female thoughts are good.
Male reamistering is bad, female reamistering is good.
Male cheating is bad, female cheating is empowering, and if he were capable at home, she wouldn't be out there anyway.
Blame the victim much???
OK, it's TOO FAR off topic, PM me if you want resources, though I fear a fair number of the resources aren't exceptionally friendly to femme men... But they ARE less hostile in my experience than the general public, too.
BTW, if fitness is a permisteral issue, i'd suggest some basic exercises be added to your daily schedule, especially Ashtanga Yoga if possible, and bodyweight calisthenics. Swimming, too, but DO NOT do Butterfly, it WILL build out the Laterals, making you look VERY MALE... Makes you look big and scary. fine if that's what you want, but likely not the objective here.
And the reamister for calisthenics (which includes Pilates, BTW, and can include yoga and tai chi) is to build strength without building mass. I don't WANT a 24" biceps. I'd love a 24" waist (my D-cups... Well, they WERE, probably C now due to weight loss) would look SO HOT then... Too bad most women want men. :-P Can't win for losing.
Look for blogs on training, BTW - there are articles targeting women, on how to build the muscularity a woman wants. If you wife wants you femme, and you're OK with it, build those muscles around the hips and glutes, and burn the fat, while keeping shoulders slim. You'll look femme, and STILL have strength for almost anything you need, especially if you work the core and know some leverage. I used to move the corporate UPSs (Uninterruptable power supplies, basically 220 pound battery packs) SOLO. And I was about 200 pounds, with 30% or mroe body fat, so I did NOT look like a body builder - but I could move them by using arms at one end, legs as a lever, and lifting as needed with the back.
You don't need to look like Schwarzenegger to be strong, as many women prove EVERY DAY. (PROVE, mind - these aren't your affirmative action whores pretending, they really ARE that tough!) My grandlady comes to mind, actually - Irish battle-axe, she used to stoke the furnace in the days of coal. the kids got a kick out of tying a shoelace around her arm and watching her flex and burst it.
The old lady had balls...
Think about it... Think where YOU want to be, and how SOCIETY should be, even if they don't match up - decide which is more important, if they are mutually exclusive, and then MAN UP and do something about it.
steyraug96-at-yahoo.com
(Warning, i'm slow to respond and get hundreds of spam a day. Bad combination.)