Archive for December, 2007

Why You Can’t Trust People To Say What They Really Want

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I meet a lot of guys who complain about women claiming to like “nice guys” but actually preferring jerks. It’s a reassuring fiction that shields their egos, but it’s really not that simple. First off, these [...]

The Mystery/Mastery Love Paradox

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I want to talk about a theory I’ve been working over in my head. I call it the Mystery/Mastery Love Paradox. (I’m generally not good at giving short, catchy names to things, so if you can come up with a pithier name for it, please let me know). It basically states that when [...]

Myth Of The Ghetto Alpha Male

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Ghetto men have a reputation for being tough guys, and to untrained eyes it may seem that the problems many ghetto guys have with violence and the legal system are a result of them being textbook alpha males letting their machismo and testosterone run wild. But I think it’s actually [...]

Why Women Are Called Sluts When They Sleep Around, But Men Aren’t

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You often hear women, especially feminists and sluts, complaining about how it’s such an unfair double standard that men are called studs when they sleep around, yet women are called sluts.  It’s really not a double standard though, because both scenarios are pretty different in terms of circumstances and consequences. [...]

Intro Post

This blog is called The Rawness(dotcom). The premise is simple, it’s a blog where I share some theory about human nature and why we do the things we do and think the things we think. But I’m not presenting these theories as if I’m some kind of absolute authority or anything. What [...]