We should put together a reading list of authors worth reading as related to the blackpill. Everything we say here has been said before.
An example:
As women are a considerable or at least a pretty numerous part of company, and as their suffrages go a great way towards establishing a man's character in the fashionable part of the world, — which is of great importance to the fortune and figure he proposes to make in it, — it is necessary to please them. I will therefore upon this subject let you into certain arcana, that will be very useful for you to know, but which you must with the utmost care conceal, and never seem to know. Women then are only children of a larger growth ; they have an
entertaining tattle and sometimes wit, but for solid, reasoning good-sense, I never knew in my life one that had it, or who reasoned or acted consequentially for four-and-twenty hours together. Some little passion or humor always breaks in upon their best resolutions. Their beauty neglected or controverted, their age increased, or their supposed understandings depreciated instantly kindles their
little passions, and overturns any system of consequential conduct that in their most reasonable moments they might have been capable of forming.
A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly, forward child ; but he neither consults them about nor trusts them with serious matters, though he often makes them believe that he does both, which is the thing in the world that they are proud of; for they love mightily to be dabbling in business, — which, by the way, they always spoil, —
and being justly distrustful that men in general look upon them in a trifling light, they almost adore that man who talks more seriously to them, and who seems to consult and trust them : I say, who seems ; for weak men really do, but wise ones only seem to do it. No flattery is either too high or too low for them ; they will greedily swallow the highest and gratefully accept of the lowest ; and you may safely flatter any woman from her understanding down to the exquisite taste of her fan. Women who are either indisputably beautiful or indisputably ugly are best flattered upon the score of their understandings ; but those who are in a state of mediocrity are best flattered upon their beauty, or at least their graces, for every woman who is not absolutely ugly thinks herself handsome ; but not hearing often that she is so is the more grateful and the more obliged to the few who tell her so ; whereas a decided and conscious beauty looks upon every tribute paid to her beauty only as her due, but wants to shine and to be considered on the side of her understanding ; and a woman who is ugly nough to know that she is so, knows that she has nothing left for it but her understanding, which is consequently — and probably in more senses than one — her weak side. But these are secrets which you must keep inviolably, if you would not like Orpheus be torn to pieces by the whole sex ; on the contrary, a man who thinks of living in the great world must be gallant, polite, and attentive to please the women.
They have from the weakness of men more or less influence in all courts ; they absolutely stamp every man's character in the beau monde and make it either current, or cry it down and stop it in payments. It is therefore absolutely necessary to manage, please, and flatter them, and never to discover the least marks of contempt, which is what they never forgive ; but in this they are not singular,
for it is the same with men, who will much sooner forgive an injustice than an insult.
Lord Chesterfield's letters to his son, letter 26
Well recommended book about how to please people, win favours, succeed in the world at large etc.
