@Starboy,
@Chase how would you view women's tendency to backwards rationalize various situations and come to false conclusions as a result?
For example girl at the club starts grinding and dancing with a guy. Then they make out,he pulls her to the the bathroom and she gives him a bj. The guy tries to pull her pants off to fuck,but she says she can't cuz she has a bf,but she rationalized everything else up to that point as not cheating in her mind. Does that fall under the category of absurd or is still silly because it's very low self awareness?
For me that is just doltish behavior. It is low self-awareness.
High self-awareness is not going to clubs and grinding on guys in the first place because you have a boyfriend.
Also high self-awareness is going to clubs and grinding on guys and blowing them AND fucking them, despite having a boyfriend, but doing it anyway because you have decided, "You know what? FUCK my boyfriend. If he can't blah blah whatever, then I'm just gonna have fun."
I actually have more respect for the chick who willfully cheats on her boyfriend than the chick who goes halfway and then "Oh no, my boyfriend wouldn't like it if I did that." (I would not knowingly DATE the chick who willfully cheats on her boyfriend, but I can respect it. And look, there I am violating what I just said in the last post about not using the word 'respect' in conjunction with women. I guess I am just as flakey and inconstant as women are! "Chase: Silly and Cute")
Once I was sucking on a girl's tits with her shirt off in bed, and then I went for her pants and she stopped me and said, "No, I can't, my boyfriend wouldn't like it." And I just looked at her, and looked at her tits, and looked at her again, and I asked her, "Well how about this? Would your boyfriend be okay with all this?" and I just started laughing my head off. She gave up resistingx after that point. But I lost all the enjoyment out of it after that because all I could think was, "Damn, this girl is totally lame!"
I think the thing to realize is there are people -- both men AND women -- operating at low levels of self-awareness. We have some of them on this forum

These can be very intelligent people, but they just don't really have a clue what is going on, and they run around bumbling into a bunch of situations they don't know how to deal with because they're clueless.
I tend to like high level people, so when I see clueless behavior it is not really something I am going to feel a lot excited by.
(I would add here that certain types of
more devious people very much
do enjoy low awareness people, because generally low-awareness people are easier to lead into all kinds of situations they might otherwise object to)
However, I am mindful of the fact that clueless, low-awareness behavior is just sort of standard practice for a whole lot of humanity, and if you want to be a humanitarian and a man of the people you have to look kindly on your less aware brethren and sistren.
Or a less extreme example like a guy inviting a girl home after a date where they built a strong connection and the girl is very into the guy. The guy escalates on the girl inside his apartment, she gives him lmr and they don't hook up. Then she goes home and backwards rationalizes that because they didn't have sex that night that he must not truly like her and they never had any chemistry or connection after all because of that she resents him and ghosts. Would that also fall under silly because of her obliviousness?
To me that is actually practical behavior on the girl's part.
It is frustrating for guys losing girls to LMR. It frustrated me for years. But eventually I realized it is actually pretty rational.
We're talking about a ubiquitous behavior women engage in with men all over the world, in every culture. It is not always to the same extent, and not always manifested at exactly the same point of the at-home escalation... for instance, in Japan, girls may put up a mountain of resistance to kissing you at your place, but once you've kissed them, it's all over. In America you will get girls you can get stripped down to their panties without encountering a lick of resistance, but when you go for the panties suddenly you come up against their IRON WILL.
But regardless what point of the escalation to sex you face it at, unless you manage to bypass it altogether (which you can do with tight game or a very willing woman), you are going to encounter it at some point.
Then, if you fail to overcome it, and she leaves, she will backward rationalize that as it being for the best.
The thing to realize is that the escalation to sex is the mating dance of the human species.
The whole courtship ritual is, really, but the escalation to sex is the penultimate part of it, just before coitus, and it is under very heavy evaluation by the girl. Any seduction-killing mistake here is an indication to the woman that this guy probably is not one she wants to mate with.
There are evolutionary reasons why women want to mate with men capable of overcoming LMR. If a man can't overcome her LMR, that says bad things about him... he may not be confident in himself; he probably is not very sexually successful; he may not have clear intentions with women, and is just "going through the motions" with them, abandoning his courtship as soon as he hits an obstacle.
Her read won't always be accurate. I have had girls where I hit LMR, then I stopped, looked at the girl, and was like, "Do I really want this girl? You know what, I just picked her up because she was the only receptive girl available at the end of the night, and now that she's resisting me and I am looking at her face / body I am not really feeling it enough to put up with this." Then I kick the girl out, and she is all flustered, but I'm sure the next day she will have settled on "Well, I doubtless dodged a bullet there! That guy didn't deserve me at all!" which is fine; I don't really care.
If she was a girl I wanted and I failed to overcome LMR... that really is not a thing I have dealt with too much... if I want it bad enough I will pretty much always figure out a way to overcome her resistance... but it has happened on occasion... even then, it is sad, but my thought on it is just, "Well, it wasn't meant to be," which is sort of the mirror image of the girl's thought, I suppose.
However, like the girl, I am also done with her once I've tried escalating on her once and failed.
I think a lot of guys think, "Well, I got so close last time, maybe I can try again!"
My mindset has always been, "If you get right up to the finish line but can't get over it, that's it, you're done. She's gonna think you're an impotent, sterile manlet, and you won't get another shot."
I might throw a few attempts out after her every now and again just in case she bites, but usually it is totally done at that point, which is what I expect.
To me that's not a silly or cute thing, or something to be angry about; it is just a part of the mating dance.
Kinda like if you get up on stage to show your dance routine for the dance off, but then you trip on one of the floorboards on the stage and fall on your face and have to slink off the stage in humiliation. The judges are going to score you poorly and you aren't going to win, even if you're normally an ace dancer, but you screwed up, so that's what happens, you won't win that competition.
You don't get angry at the judges, or the audience, and hopefully not at yourself either... accidents happen... all you can do is try to stay on your feet and make it through your routine next time if you want that award.
Same deal with LMR. If you want the shag, and you want her to think well of you, you have to see the courtship through, and not have an abortive, "fell flat on your face" escalation to sex.
Chase