I know, I know. I said at the end of that last U-man post I’d just leave a comment, but the damn thing got too long.
Unrelated (but in the title) if you haven’t put it together yet from the facebook posts I’ve copied and pasted, my real name is Chad.
Considering I’ve posted it before, and post pictures… Not a huge deal. But god damn. That feels good.

Alpha Action, Beta Soul
If ever there was a way to camp, shoot guns, hunt, fish, ski, wrestle, be an Eagle Scout, play soccer, play baseball, play bass guitar, and be an actor in theatre…. Well, I found it.
Yes.There are Beta ways to do those.
Yes, beta ways for all of them.
And yes, I found every. single. one.
My father traveled for work constantly. Which meant my mom raised me and decided to do so in a feminine manner. Then between freshman and sophmore year of high school my parents got divorced. Instead of feminine during the week, masculine on weekends, it was feminine 90% of the time due to my fathers work schedule between ‘scheduled’ visitation and his required travel for work.
So, while I still enjoyed all those activities my mom slowly poisoned me against the desire to actually compete, strain, or stress myself. Instead I applied myself to advanced classes, art, and reading – though always with at least two or three of the ‘masculine’ activities on the side. I didn’t understand that the feminine perspective was poisoning me to the activities I loved, simply that I resenting the conflict between the desire for competition I had bred in me and the detesting of it I was taught. I also got a wonderful first hand perspective on all the negatives to a man’s wallet divorce unfairly forces, as well as my fathers happy second marriage and my mother single to this day. With everything going on there, it probably won’t be any surprise to any man here that I started practicing escapism – in video games, reading, music, hobbies, everything. The one thing that steadied me through high school is that I became active in my church’s youth group, choir, and other activities.
Between school and extra-curricular activities I did every single damn thing in my power to have a reason not to be home till 10 pm.
Early Scars

A few times in elementary school, I had the unfortunate luck to have the bad combination of Alpha asshole at times and beta schlub at others. A few notable (hot) older sisters of friends mentioned that I’d be a perfect catch for them in a few years as long as I remained nice. A peck on the check or on the lips, and I had enough early fantasies to last me months.
Those lying bitches.
Sadly, I took them at their word.
Paving the Road Out

Hilariously enough – it was the hypocritical church women and the feminists that gave me the first glimpses of Alpha life.
Every hookup I had in high school was to a woman that I now know I had preselection with. Women that competed with their friends over me (which I subconsciously encouraged solely because I couldn’t make a choice). Women younger than me. Women I was put in places of authority over by class, by sport, by activity. I never landed with any of them because, the moment I made an overt move, it fell to pieces. While I didn’t understand it till the red pill, and lamented it for years how any woman I asked out always said no, I simply learned to stop asking them out and just ‘let it happen’ with a kiss.
Meanwhile I also played a separate game in church. I only hooked up with a couple of them, but they (rather than the athiest girls at schools) were the ones that would lie or cheat behind my back. In addition, my church was one of those ‘inclusive’ churches. We had church sleep overs, bowling, mission trips with too little supervision, and plays where I’d be the exciting way for her to cheat with a make out as I gave her a ride home. I saw church girls hide in corners to make out. I heard first hand stories of church girls getting fingered in church. And, occasionally, I was the boy she found as an exciting get away trip. More often than not though – I was the shoulder to cry on.
Over all, the lying cheating church girls I expected to be pristine opened my eyes to the rest of the world at an early age. There’s a lack of bitterness to most of my posts compared to the rest of the manosphere, and I’ll attribute it to always knowing women were what they were at some level.
Irony is a bitch.
Average Frustrated College (AFC) Years
While I lost my virginity to a smokin hot high schooler my freshman year of college, I certainly wouldn’t describe any of the other women as catches during those college years. Judge for yourself. I’m pretty sure those pictures of the first couple women say enough in and of themselves. I almost cheated on every single one of them – yet I couldn’t bring myself to do it the nights where things got hot and heavy, then found myself detested the next day by the women I almost cheated with, as if they did nothing. While unsurprising now, it was perplexing then.
The end of my college relationship career was with an overweight 5’10″, 185 lb woman from Texas. And I’m sure she gained 10 pounds while I was with her. Honestly, I looked at other pictures of her/us I could put in this new post since the original, and didn’t have the heart to do it. I didn’t want to be a dick, nor did I want to stomp all over good memories I have. So here:

Yes, I was that guy.
It lasted for two years after college
Seeing the light
She went through a year of unemployment, I was working 40 hours a week at a call center to pay the bills, while working another 20-30 a week doing theatre to pursue my dreams. The sex dried up, and it was a downward spiral similar to any LTR crash or divorce story you hear on the ‘Sphere. Less sex, less respect, more bullshit
I started hitting on friends. Friends only of hers. Friends of mine, Mutual friends. I hit on anything with breasts and a pussy, though never cheated. I got caught, I called her a liar and blamed her. This was my theme song for 8 months:
I shamed her infront of mutual friends. I applied to grad school. The flirting got moderate renewed interest, yet it was more bitching than sex. Little enough either way that I knew it was a burn out. When she refused to make plans on if I got into grad school or not, I knew it was over. I got in, ditched her ass, and spent a summer at home before Boston.
It was the summer of my life.
Tripled my number count. Short terms only. Was drinking, having fun, and doing only what you ‘shouldn’t do with hotter women than I’d ever gotten before. All younger women, all in under 21, all in college, all while living in a friend’s basement while working a summer job.
I went to grad school and continued doing the same with under grads. Things I would have thought before I shouldn’t have been able to do at all. Let alone morally done. Sex in public places. Demanding satisfaction. Telling a woman “no, I don’t enjoy going down on you so I’m not going to do it”. Seeing things happen like me refusing to comfort a woman, then getting bored and telling her to go down on me, and it working.
I started getting shit for still being single, but living up the dream.
Meanwhile, in Feminist Land
I was learning how to communicate with feminist bitch cunts. They invaded theatre, so I continue to have to put up with them and refine my ways of communication. I did so out of necessity, but was starting to get curious at why I could land everything I desired while doing exactly what they told me not to. So, reading feminist doctrine became both a necessity and a curiosity.
Then, one day, a friend linked Amanda Bolick’s article in the Atlantic. It mentioned Hooking Up Smart. I followed it, read Susan’s archives, found Dalrock and Badger. It was over from there. I went two weeks without sleep in any significant amount as I hit Dalrock’s self links like an ADD kid on wikipedia. Dalrock continues to be the man I read every article of for his writing style and because divorce matters to me – but his self linking is insane in what it does to a man wanting pure, unfiltered knowledge with those links.
Soon enough I found Roosh, Roissy, and Rollo. After a couple months to get my feet back on the ground, I started this blog to keep myself grounded by being able to have a safe place to work through my thoughts.
The Rest has been blogged as a documented Journey on the road of Alpha
So many similarities it’s painful. The mother influence. Growing up beta. The AFC years. The crash at the end that forces you to wake up.
I’ve been meaning to write a post similar to this, tho i was going to wait for mothers day to do it.
The only reason i don’t hate her is because now stepping back, i realize she did all she could with what she had available to her. I realize the no win situation she was in by circumstance and fate. I ended up being the guy born at the wrong place, wrong time to bear the brunt of a confluence of events that led down a very similar path you just wrote. That’s why i still love her, in spite of the agony i went through.
It wasn’t her fault.
But i can definitely blame feminism for it’s part.
In any case, i think you’ve made huge inroads. It might be time to change your moniker to Leap of Alpha.
Welcome to the Desert of the Real… Chad!
Hah. Thanks man.
That’s hard with your mother… I don’t know the particulars of your circumstances with her, but like you say, it sounds similar. I love mine, but I stopped respecting her or her decisions a long time ago and she hasn’t won them back.
The reason my parents marriage went south is that my mother respected my father, but never submitted to him. She defied him when he was out of town and ran things the way she wanted. Of course she blamed the failed marriage on “communication issues” on my father’s part.
Feminism – ruining marriages since it’s first wave on the shores of america.
Forgot to say that if you do write a post about any of this stuff I’d love to read it. The last couple you’ve done are especially good. Seems like you found a healthier place for yourself than what we were talking about in those emails.
Definitely healthier. I’ve just finally accepted once and for all the fundamentals of human nature and biology. What it takes to be ‘masculine’ in a manner to attract the ‘feminine’ without complaining or bitching. Simply accept nature for what it is and work within that framework. Adapt to fit the world, don’t try to bend the world to fit around you.
To do what is natural and what feminists refuse to do.
Accept reality.
I love it bro. It’s been truly amazing to read those posts and I’m glad to hear that what I thought I saw in the changes was true.
In the middle of writing a new post on some of this stuff right now – I’ll love to get your thoughts and feedback on it when it’s done.
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M3 wrote: “What it takes to be ‘masculine’ in a manner to attract the ‘feminine’ without complaining or bitching. Simply accept nature for what it is and work within that framework. Adapt to fit the world, don’t try to bend the world to fit around you.”
I think that’s another step in the process of becoming red pill. It comes after the pain, the bitterness and conciously knowing that the society is ruined but it isn’t our problem to fix it or complain about it. Man up, adapt and leap into alpha as a real man. Getting myself to that mindstate too
Yeah, I’ve understood and known that for about a year now.
If you read my latest post there’s a lot in there dealing with shame and how it affects us. I think a lot of the men in our society were raised with unhealthy levels of shame, which is what makes them so submissive.
Yet the red pill as it’s handed out right now doesn’t really address shame, how to move beyond it, and grow into a man. It says “Real men do ______” whether it’s approach, be fashion conscious, go to a gym, etc. It gives very superficial answers to the question, “What does a masculine man do?” A lot of us start building a new image of ourselves instead of building a man of ourselves; and there’s a very big difference there.
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