Showing posts with label The Female Psychosis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Female Psychosis. Show all posts

Thursday, March 13, 2014

The Female Psychosis part 4: The Rationalization Hamster

written for Going Your Own Way forum. Awaiting review

Let me say that hunting down and reading the online materials regarding the various explanations on the Realization Hamster has been arduous. However, many of the literature and commentary that I have read were indeed helpful even when I do not agree with some of them. I am going to take the opportunity here to address some of the commentary that I find relevant as a starting point to the Hamster discussion.

The Rationalization Hamster is a combination of Self-Discrepancy, Cognitive Dissonance and Rationalization theories: AGREED - Yes and my theories actually support these theories as much as these theories support mine. Read them to get a better perspective of the Hamster. Kudos to bsutansalt of TRP and vote this up if you’re a member.

The Hamster is a Logic Wheel: FALSE - If you read my article on Solipsism, you know why this is false. The Hamster is not spurred on logic; it is driven by emotions, wants and needs thus are often irrational. The Hamster appeals to your feelings, not your rationale.

Men have the Hamster too: WRONG - This myth is extremely prevalent among Blue Pill and Red Pill women.  The argument is that men rationalize their behavior as much as women. This is fucking bogus and I’ll tell you why. First, rationalization means giving excuses; this is what a child does and we forgive children because they don’t know any better. Women give excuses far too often and they receive the Pussy Pass. But when men give excuses, we condemn him (as we should) for acting like a child. Men don’t forgive other men for their excuses; we punish him when he’s doing wrong. What men do is not rationalization but justification. We give evidence to attempt, prove and convince others that what we say, do or think is right. Rationalization is pleading to another person’s emotional sense while justification is convincing another’s intellectual sense; that’s the difference. And if you see any man and woman making excuses for his or her actions without just cause, reprimand them and don’t let them get away with it or you’ll just enabling their behavior.

The Hamster implies women are stupid: NOT EXACTLY - This one is taken from KittyHamilton -- a Blue Pill woman -- in the PurplePillDebate Subreddit. If you read my article on Solipsism I explain the difference between stupidity and having a solipsistic view.  My definition of the Rationalization Hamster implies that women are insane and infantile to varying degrees; and I have given evidence why I can sufficiently claim so.

You can use the Hamster to your advantage (in game): WHATEVER - This one is made by veggie_girl in TRP. Yeah, I don’t care.

Now that we have covered that, I will move on to explain what I believe the Hamster really is. Now I admit that as far as the theories in this series go, this one is the hardest to explain and to pin down simply because there hasn’t been anyone to have really studied it. This is my attempt to investigate the Hamster but much like a Black Hole swimming in the ocean of the vast universe, you can only speculate – with some approximation and within a reasonable margin of errors – the nature of the Hamster in the subterranean and convoluted recesses of the female mind.

I will admit, that I might be entirely wrong and making a fool of myself but I don’t think I am.

Regardless, I think this article is a good starting point to really understand what the Hamster is, how it operates, why does it seem invincible and how does it sustain itself with the added bonus of some personal suggestions on how to defeat it.

Yes, there is a way to defeat the hamster.

The Number of the Beast

Let us recap.

In parts 1, 2 and 3 of this series I explained with evidence of apparent Female Psychoses. From there, we know that most if not all women are Egocentric, Narcissistic and Solipsistic to varying degrees and these 3 mental conditions are related and support each other as shown in the diagram above. The relationship between these 3 separate but similar mental conditions is crucial because it highlights the psychology of the female mind and the Rationalization Hamster is born from that mind. So, if you have not read the previous parts of this series, I suggest you do or you will not be able to fully appreciate the nature of the Hamster.

So what definitions do we have when people talk about the Hamster? One definition says that

It is the tendency for women to use rationalization to resolve mental conflict and avoid cognitive dissonance. The core mechanism that allows women to say one thing and do different a thing.’
The Red Pill subreddit

This definition is too general and implies that men have the Hamster too which men do not. The problem with this definition is the ‘core mechanism’ part of it. I explained in the previous articles that women say and do different things because of the naturally occurring egocentric nature of Relativistic Hedonism which is apparent in all children who have solipsistic view of the world. The definition also implies that the Hamster rationalizes first before the woman acts and this is contradictory. If we look at how children behave; they will act first before thinking and when they have committed a faux pas, they would then give excuses. Rationalizing then only comes after the action is performed and not before hence the above definition is inaccurate; but it’s pretty close.

The Private Man (2011) probably offered the best explanation of the Hamster;

The rationalization hamster is an analogy for the thought processes used by women to turn bad behavior and bad decisions into acceptable ones to herself and her friends. When a woman makes a bad decision, the hamster spins in its wheel (the woman’s thinking) and creates some type of acceptable reasons for that bad decision. The crazier the decisions, the faster the hamster must spin in order to successfully rationalize away the insanity.  When the hamster rationalizes successfully, a woman can divorce herself from the consequences of her bad decision or behavior.

My only criticism of this however, is that it is an explanation of what the Hamster does, not what it is. Despite that, Private Man has laid down some fine observations regarding the Hamster. For one, he observed that the Hamster does spin the wheel faster when women behave more erratic, thus we can safely presuppose that the Hamster is a product of a larger female systemic psychosis; women are mentally ill. Second, Private Man observed that after the Hamster successfully rationalizes a dysfunction, the woman self-vindicates from the results of her actions; this statement here is key and I agree with this observation for it alludes to the core purpose of the Hamster.

You see, we know women are crazy and that they rationalize their madness but we never asked why women act insane; we always assume that they were born that way (which is controversially true) but what need does a woman have to be mentally retarded when we know they are capable of critical thought. This is the contradiction and I believe all of this goes back to the female psyche of Egocentrism, Narcissism and Solipsism.

Hence, I hypothesize that below is what the Hamster really is.

Kyo’s Model of the Female Psychosis: The Rationalization Hamster

Please note that even though I tried my best to make it sensible, this is still a working model. If anyone would like to enhance this model, be my guest. Note, that I won’t be doing like Sunshine Mary (2013) and give a Hamsterlation of various female lies and nonsense; we have all heard them and like what The Private Man rightly observed, the end result is always “it’s not my fault.” What I would like to do is expand on The Private Man’s observation.

Schism
In part 1 of my series, I stated that for the Egocentric, they can only see their point of view and hence are often unable to accost or acquiesce with the facts of reality. And again this is the key purpose of the Hamster; the egocentric is unable to reconcile her own wants and desires with the truth of reality and so she makes excuses for the purpose of escaping reality and retreat to the only place she knows to be safe for her which is her own mind.

What the Rationalization Hamster is all about, is creating a Safe Space for the woman. 

That is why women are solipsistic because they feel safe in their own minds where they do not ever doubt themselves. Women fear reality and they build defenses and mechanisms to protect them from the harshness of the real world. Being not able to cope with real life, they would obviously feel ashamed of themselves but they cannot handle shame because that would mean they are worthless which would cause them to doubt themselves and so, they rationalize their thoughts, speech and behavior in an attempt to convince themselves that what they had done is justified for them.

And if you look at my model, you will notice that I painted the center black. This represents the woman’s Insecurities; they subconsciously realize that they are wrong because in the real world dysfunctional behavior is unacceptable for adults but they cannot accept their own weaknesses. So, instead of dealing their insecurities like an adult they nurtured an extraordinary beast to protect them from those feelings of insecurities. The woman’s shame led to her Narcissism, her doubt for the world led to Solipsism and her fear for reality led to her Egocentrism.

The Hamster’s true purpose then is to protect the woman's Insecurities; her fear of reality, her own shame of her self-worth and the doubt that she has in her mind. It is the bastion of a woman’s Safe Spaces.

And because the woman believes that only she is right and thus reality is wrong, and she cannot cope with her own insecurities, she makes effort to change reality to make it conform to her mental vision of a Safe Space in the real world. Feminism and Gynocentrism is that vehicle for her to realize that fantasy and to turn every place she inhabits into a safe space for her, even if it intrudes on others. How feminists were able to fool all women into participating in this facade is by using the Hamster to appeal to other women’s own insecurities against a make believe enemy that is vague and readily identifiable; the Patriarchy.

The Patriarchy is in fact a delusion made to represent the real world; a world full of Unsafe Spaces for the woman, a world that would humiliate her, makes her doubt her worth and image.

And why do this fear, doubt and shame persist in the woman? It all goes back to part 2 of my series. I mentioned that men have good self-confidence and self-image because we evaluate our worth according to the work we do and not how people perceive us. Men don’t give a fuck about what people think as long as we enjoy what we want to do and are good at doing it. Women, because they are afraid of the real world, they fear being embarrassed and fearful to admit that they are not all what they assume to be, found comfort and attention in others and translated this to self-image and self-worth hence, they did not find the need to improve themselves.

This means that the dysfunction and malfunction of women will never be resolved; there is and always will be a disparity between the female Safe Space and the real world. That is why women continue to want for more stuff – resources, status, security etcetera -- because these things do not fix the real problem, which is for those very women to grow up. They need to fend for themselves, confront the hardships of the world, learn to live with their embarrassment and foster a strong confident self-worth that is not tied with public perception. To do that, we men need to stop pandering women and start making them compete – really compete – with us in the real world.

We need to treat women like they are true competitive rivals. They need to work hard to get food, shelter and the comforts of life that they all take for granted.

Killing ‘Me’ Softly
Now that we have identified the Hamster we can devised strategies to defeat it and no, there is no polite way of doing it. The good news is, MGTOW and Herbivore Men have correctly guessed how to defeat the Hamster and have taken necessary steps. I am going to give suggestions on how to defeat the Hamster and though I have found that it works for me, this is anecdotal at best and at worst isolated and circumstantial. Please read and consider if it applies to your situation and if it does not, abandon my suggestions, form your own and share with as many people as you can.

But first we identify the goal. In my previous 3 articles you might have noticed that I did not address how to deal with each mental condition; that is because the best time to deal with egocentrism, narcissism and solipsism is when you are young. Since we are a little late to the party, there was no point of me telling you how to deal your child’s childish behavior. And since they had ample time to develop, all 3 mental conditions have consolidated and form a strong structure which is the Hamster.

The Hamster is superbly proficient in deflecting, defending and retaliating against mental assaults, reason and criticism because all 3 of egocentrism, narcissism and solipsism are acting as a single unit and it spins the wheel that is Feminism and Gynocentrism which include Misandry and the Pussy Pass. So you cannot use a single strategy to defeat the Hamster; it has to be a united and concerted siege campaign.

First, if you look at the model, you can see that Feminism does not contribute directly to any of the mental conditions. This is because Feminism is simply a politicized manifestation of the Female Psychoses; it is the Female Psychoses except bigger thus it contributes nothing except expanding the female Safe Space with the help of Gynocentrism. And Gynocentrism feeds the Hamster with Narcissistic Supply and the Pussy Pass or male dismissive attitude towards female dysfunction.

The female solipsism forms the basic tenets of Feminism that in turn, encourages society to be more gynocentric. Gynocentrism enables women’s maladaptive patterns of behavior and cognition and thus allow women’s narcissism to exploit men to their own benefit which is to serve Feminism; you got to admit, this is some wicked ass genius system the Hamster developed. So, this reciprocity is analogous to the often irrational but highly effective female rationalization.

I am sure you already guessed what our strategy to defeat the Hamster is but let me just spell it out. Our first priority, which has been reiterated by MGTOW and is practiced by Herbivore Men, is to stop feeding the Hamster and starve it i.e. No More Pussy Pass, no more attention, no more White Knighting and no more vagina for money. We need to cut off the Narcissistic Supply just as the Herbivore Men did in Japan and women will be concern and afraid because they have just lost their meal ticket. We need to stop being exploited by women either for slave labor or emotional tampon.

The second strategy of our campaign which MGTOWs have correctly applied is the relentless assault on the beliefs held by Feminism. What we want to do is give more men the Red Pill because once they realize that they have been fooled, exploited and used; they will stop adhering to Gynocentrism and thus will stop feeding the Hamster as well.  

How do we do this to the individual woman?

Well, firstly stop giving them attention. No response is the best response. Do not pay them any more attention than they are due. Don’t get them coffee, don’t by them chocolates, don’t give them gifts, don’t gossip with them, don’t get involve with them in social media. Just Don’t. If you work with women then just focus on the work and not on the women. Next, you need to make women compete with you. Remember, you are designed as a Human Doing and are capable of fantastic feats that women find difficulty in achieving. Don’t waste your efforts by pandering to women and doing what they want you to do; let them do it by themselves and force them to really work. Make them feel the pain of working the same amount of overtime that you are doing. I assure you that over a long period of time, she will wake up from that experience and if she does not, then that is the kind of woman you do not want to be working with anyway.

You also need to start reprimand women when you see them indulging in their false feministic beliefs. Remember, feminism encourages gynocentrism and gynocentrism is the exploitation of you. So you do not want the women to be spreading propaganda that would enslave you to them. Argue with them if they have a stupid idea like #banbossy and if you can, prove to them that they are wrong by using examples, logic and reasoning. They will disagree with you – they are solipsistic after all – but the point is not to win the argument; the point is to make them doubt themselves. Their Hamster will start to spin the wheel violently to find the most absurd counter-argument that has nothing to do with the topic; ridicule and patronize them when they resort to this. You will know that you have gotten to them when they retreat from the argument and start resorting to cheap insults and sarcasm to try and shame you due to their Arrogance and Envy; respond by pointing out their childish behavior.

Remember to engage the fight in a calm and rational manner; take the intellectual and rational high ground so that when they become irrational, you can display their dramatic, erratic and emotionally disturbing psychosis to the public. Pick your fights wisely; do not engage in a fight without some documented evidence of it or she can claim sexual harassment. It is best to engage battles in public and record them so that you can disseminate the evidence for everyone to see. Always let women escalate the fight but if it seems that the women can actually engage in a meaningful discourse, respond in kind. Otherwise make sure you expose that person’s fraudulent behavior.

The reason we are doing this is because we want to penetrate the Hamster and target the woman’s Insecurities; that is the reason the Hamster is running. Force the woman to confront her own insecurities, make her feel ashamed of herself, make her cry, make her doubt her own abilities, make her truly assess herself objectively and make her grow up. Reward the woman if she succeeds in maturing and battle her again if she regresses. Again this is not a one-time event; it is a long continuous campaign so you really have to think about which fights you want to invest your time and effort. Still practice makes perfect and at least in the beginning especially using social media, you are going to need to engage in a lot of fights to learn what to say and how to say it. This is only my experience so please take it with circumspect. 

Lastly, I have to address on engaging the Feminazis; DON’T. Not unless you have an elaborate sure winning strategy but even then, you need to consider the cost and the outcome. Feminazis are fanatic believers of Feminism; they have conviction in their beliefs and they won’t change. What’s worse, there are Feminazis who are mature, working, rational, sensible but are just discriminatory against men. Their Hamster is not your normal Hamster, it’s a frankenhamster and I don’t have an answer on how to deal with those I’m afraid. I’ll be sure to let you know if I come up with anything. 

If anyone has anything more to add; such as other strategies and tactics that they have seen or tried, I implore you to share them with everyone. Thank you for reading.

Reference
Sunshine Mary (2013) Google translate does not offer English to Hamsterese so Deti is here to help you out. [online] May 10, 2013 available at Sunshine Mary http://sunshinemaryandthedragon.wordpress.com/2013/05/10/google-translate-does-not-offer-english-to-hamsterese-so-deti-is-here-to-help-you-out/ [accessed Mar 13, 2014]


The Private Man (2011) The Rationalization Hamster is Immortal. [online] Dec 12, 2011 available at theprivateman http://theprivateman.wordpress.com/2011/12/12/the-rationalization-hamster-is-now-immortal/ [accessed Mar 13, 2014]

Sunday, March 9, 2014

The Female Psychosis part 1: Egocentrism

Written for Going Your Own Way forum. 
Reviewed by GabrielKnight Mar 13 2014 



Nothing has moved me so deeply than that moment when I finally got it; why women think differently from men (or as the Hamster would define it, why men think differently from women). During those instances when I notice but could not explain this disparity it would often result in confusion and bewilderment. I was confused why women often contradict themselves and when caught in their own contradiction, they deflect, rationalize and falsely accuse. Their finger points to all but themselves and society accepts this as part and parcel of “values” that must be upheld.

“Eating Grass” since a child, I always knew that something was utterly amiss and unlike other Blue Pill Men, I did not dismiss or ignore that something was vehemently wrong with women. In my research for this article I came across Louann Brizendine, a neuropsychiatrist from Harvard and a self-confessed feminist who wrote a book called The Female Brain which Robin Marantz Henig (2006) of the New York Times call a “women’s magazine article” and that “Brizendine did not do a good enough job presenting scientific evidence.” What Brizendine did was to sprinkle her writing with cutesy (read neotenous) language – estrogen as the Queen, testosterone the Forceful Seducer and oxytocin as the Fluffy, Purring Kitten.

Fuck No.

I had planned to write one article regarding one specific dementia but now I decided that I would write a series of pieces under a parent title which I am calling The Female Psychosis detailing the mental conditions in women specifically Egocentrism, Narcissism, Solipsism as well as my take on the mythical and immortal Rationalization Hamster. Two caveats before we begin

  • I am neither a Psychiatrist nor Psychologist.
  • Psychology is crock.
Okay, what is all this apparent hypocrisy about psychology being balderdash when I am using psychology to ascertain the mental state of our beautiful retards? Believe it or don’t but I am quite versed in psychology and I am able to discern between psychobabble and the scientific study of mental functions and behavior. And while one half of psychology is credible, the other half is indeed a load of crock as Dr. Louann Brizendine exemplifies.

Okay, let’s get it on.

Hang On To Your Ego
To understand the Female Psychosis, we need to begin from the very beginning. Evolutionists agree that humans are neotenic and women are highly neotenous. Females share many commonalities with children both physically and psychologically therefore, by observing the cognitive development of children; we can form a basis for a reasonable deduction from their behavioral traits. One naturally occurring trait that exists in all children is Egocentrism which means being self-absorbed or that they are preoccupied with their own internal world. But it can also be defined as ”a tendency of thoughts about the self and about self-relevant information to carry more weight in shaping comparative and likelihood judgments than do thoughts about others and other-relevant information” (Chambers & Windschitl, 2008: 253). For the self-absorbed, they can only see their point of view and hence are often unable to accost or acquiesce with the facts of reality.

Simply put, Egocentrism is all about ‘Me’.

Developmental Psychologist Jean Piaget (1923) observed that children were at a stage he calls Morality of Constraints in which right and wrong is viewed as absolutes with one exception. Children of this stage believe in this despotism of rules except when those rules hinder their individual benefit (Crosser 2014). This hypocritical selfishness is called Relativistic Hedonism and can be observed when a child monopolizes toys, citing “I can’t share them because I want them!”  However, the same child would be furious when another child hoards the toys. Relativistic Hedonism allows the child to plunder without guilt or shame “because I want them!” Egocentrism prevents the child from empathizing with others emotionally and cognitively. Thus the child who is blinded with her own viewpoint has difficulty taking on other views. This can also manifest in a child’s faulty reasoning of cause and effect. The proverb ‘step on a crack and you break your mother’s back’ is a good analogy of how a child relates to her world (Crosser 2014). Often a child assumes that unrelated good and bad events occur because of her, for example she feels guilty for her parents’ divorce, or feels special when her birthday wish is granted after supplicating to whomever and whatever.

Egocentrism is also apparent in adolescence. Professor David Elkind expanded Piaget’s theory and proposed that adolescents fail to differentiate the cognitive concerns of others and those of the self and this gave rise to two mental conditions known as the Imaginary Audience and Personal Fable (Lerner & Jovanovic 1999: 13). The Imaginary Audience is the teenagers’ belief of the constant feeling that they are being observed and judged (Oda 2007). They envision how friends would react to their every action and thought (Whitbourne 2012). Personal Fable is the belief adolescents hold that they are special and unique to the extent that none of the difficulties of life will affect them irrespective of their behavior. It is a sense of invulnerability and specialty commonly associated with risk-taking (Alberts, Elkind and Ginsberg 2006). An example of these 2 mental condition is the story of Dana Adiva, the 22 year old star of MTV’s ‘True Life: I’m Too Beautiful’ who thinks everyone either hates or lusts for her because she thinks she is too pretty (Murray 2013). She is quoted to say “people stare at me no matter what and it’s the most irritating thing in the world” (Imaginary Audience) as well as “I get anything I want basically. I get treated like a princess” (Personal Fable).   


InformOverload (2013)

The third and almost unknown of Elkind’s teenage ego trifecta is called Apparent Hypocrisy, which is when the adolescent expresses an idea and believes that the expression of that idea is the same as acting on it and achieving it (Bowden & Greenburg 2010: 110). Thus if a teenager believes she is successful even when she is not, then all her endeavors are wins without her need to strive for it. To give you an example, Psychology professors Jean Twenge and Keith Campbell studied 37,000 college students in 2006 and found 30 per cent of them believed that they should get good grades just by showing up (Taylor 2009). Due to this, the teenagers who subscribe to a certain ideology can act directly contrary to that belief, such as Singaporean girls agreeing that the National Service -- which is mandatory for men -- is a must but only for men and they themselves would not participate in it.


Mikeferdy (2013)

Since we know that women are childish in their behavior because of their neoteny, and that children as well as adolescents are egocentric, we can presuppose that women remain egocentric well into their adulthood. And for my good fellows, do not assume that Egocentrism is a modern day disease. The Women’s Petition Against Coffee of 1674 highlights this childish behavior. Coffee was introduced to Britain in the 1600 and had become a popular drink among the British Intelligentsia where men would gather in coffee-houses to discuss politics and philosophy (Price 2011). Even today’s women will find nothing wrong with this. But the wives of these men apparently did not agree, citing that their men were ‘Frenchified’ who had lost all interest in sex with them. They then describe how talkativeness is the prerogative of women and should only be reserved for women. If we read the petition we can observe the obvious egocentrism in them.

For besides, we have reason to apprehend and grow Jealous, That Men by frequenting these Stygian Tap-houses will usurp on our Prerogative of Tattling, and soon learn to excel us in Talkativeness: a Quality wherein our Sex has ever Claimed pre-eminence.

This paragraph is gold because it contains all of Elkind’s trinite adolescent egocentrism. The women thought that men were being talkative because the men were imitating them (Imaginary Audience). Garbage; even King Charles knew that the men were only concern about the affairs of the state. Next, the women were jealous and apprehensive that men would be better talkers than them (Personal Fable). More garbage; there are no credible evidence to support that women are better talkers than men and men do not care how or what women talk about. Then these women claim that talking is a female quality and that it is their dominion, hence men are not allowed to engage in it (Apparent Hypocrisy). This is idiocy beyond reason and can only be attributed to what can only be described as Paraphrenia or paranoid delusion. It was never about coffee; it has and always has been about women’s irrational and egotistical demands.

Now we look at the positive attribute of egocentrism. In a 2011 study on gender and competition it has been found that in stereotypical-male task, there is consensus that men and women with the same ability do not share the same willingness to compete (Niederle & Vesterlund 2011: 625). The study has found that in the labor market outcomes men prefer to compensate under a tournament scheme but women prefer a noncompetitive piece-rate scheme. According to the study, the best explanation for this is that men have more confidence in their abilities compare to women and their attitudes towards competition are different; men thrive on competition while women shy away. And yet women have the gall to claim that there is a gender gap in pay when they do not want to compete with men and want to do less work (manwomanmyth 2010).

In competition, egocentrism assumes that people tend to have more knowledge about themselves compared to others and that any assessments they make of themselves would tend to be more reliable than assessments they make of others (Windschitl et al., 2008: 254) This means that you know more about you than you do about the other guy and this is perfectly reasonable. Therefore when people need to make a comparison, they have some justification to believe in what they think of themselves than what they think about others and these people then tend to arrive at a better and more accurate judgment in their comparisons and optimism (Chambers & Windschitl, 2004: 270).

Therefore in competition, egocentrism is beneficial and crucial for men because it helps the man to make better decisions and to be more optimistic. But this has nothing to do with competition in relationships i.e. not victim against oppressor, not wife against husband, nor women against coffee. As men, we need to have confidence in ourselves if we are to compete with others for food and shelter. Egocentrism is good for competition and since men are naturally competitive, egocentrism is good for men. Women have no use for egocentrism and when they are egocentric, it is not for the purpose of getting food or shelter but for competing on looking attractive (Cashdan 1998).

Garbage

To be continued in The Female Psychosis Part 2: Narcissism

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