Some Thoughts On Schopenhauer
"In the girl nature has had in view what could in theatrical terms be called a stage-effect: it has provided her with superabundant beauty and charm for a few years at the expense of the whole remainder of her life, so that during these years she may so capture the imagination of a man that he is carried away into undertaking to support her honorably in some form or another for the rest of her life, a step he would seem hardly likely to take for purely rational considerations. Thus nature has equipped women, as it has all its creatures, with the tools and weapons she needs for securing her existence, and at just the time she needs them; in doing which nature has acted with its usual economy. For just as the female ant loses its wings after mating, since they are then superfluous, indeed harmful to the business of raising the family, so the woman usually loses her beauty after one or two childbeds, and probably for the same reason.
Only a male intellect clouded by the sexual drive could call the stunted, narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped and short-legged sex the fair sex: for it is with this drive that all its beauty is bound up. More fittingly than the fair sex, women could be called the unaesthetic sex. Neither for music, nor poetry, nor the plastic arts do they possess any real feeling or receptivity: if they affect to do so, it is merely mimicry in service of their effort to please. This comes from the fact that they are incapable of taking a purely objective interest in anything whatever, and the reason for this is, I think, as follows. Man strives in everything for a direct domination over things, either by comprehending or by subduing them. But woman is everywhere and always relegated to a merely indirect domination, which is achieved by means of man, who is consequently the only thing she has to dominate directly. Thus it lies in the nature of women to regard everything simply as a means of capturing a man, and their interest in anything else is only simulated, is no more than a detour, i.e. amounts to coquetry and mimicry."
~ Schopenhauer
(Aka: Incelius Maximus, the first of his kind)
That awkward moment when you expect women to be your equals, in an age that disallows them to pursue or even cultivate interests of their own (at the cost of their own survival even, as having anything remotely close to a personality could reduce their sexual market value to zero), while simultaneously deprives them of proper education and means alternative to marriage to sustain themselves. Schopenhauer's observations may have been astute, but his anger was clearly misplaced on the 'product', rather than the 'machine' responsible for its reproduction. Don't hate the player, hate the game.
On a more contemporary note, many women still complain that men only desire them for their bodies, yet lack a tolerable level of intelligence to begin with. On the other hand, land whales expect men to fall for their charming personalities, while they themselves fail to respect themselves enough by cultivating the discipline required to lose some weight.
Then come the guys, complaining how women always leave them for higher value men, yet they themselves never hesitate to replace a woman with a hotter one, with the exact same cruel indifference they charge women with.
Concluding, one can only try to be the best version of themselves, physically AND mentally. If you indeed cultivate value for yourself, you will never have to fake anything to earn anyone's temporary approval, sex or other resources. Everything will come to you, because you would have earned it, by being better than those who venture through life with an autopilot resignation and defeatism. Rejection will scarcely matter, when you can have it all either way. Life is too short to be a wuss, if you want something, take it!
