As many of you know, it isn't particularly difficult to catch the eye of some generic LVM. The passive, insecure kind who's often struggling with his self-esteem, generally bring nothing but negativity and mediocrity to the table, have no intention to make any explicit moves, and prefer lurking from the shadows, gathering intel and trying to turn mundane situations to his advantage.
One of these schemes directly involve attempting to poison a woman's relationship with other women by engineering stupid conflicts or competition.
Most of us are trying to foster positive relationships by vetting them and surrounding ourselves with like-minded women displaying high value behaviors who are willing to share quality time and a secure friendship. And for good reason: this is dangerous for scrotes. A woman who has secure ties to other women and is part of a solid network of support and friendship is less vulnerable to manipulation, desperation, or destructive behaviors. In such a context, we rarely ever need men, but we might still associate with them by choice, on our terms.
So it's quite hilarious when a LVM who has an obvious crush on a woman willingly tries to undermine her support system in order to benefit from the fallout. In their mind, they fantasize about infiltrating a group of women and rerouting the energy from a nice heaven of cooperation to a chaotic competition where he is the center of everyone's desires. This could take the form of blatant triangulation, when one guy suddenly starts speaking highly of your friend and how pretty she is and how much effort she puts in her appearance and how thin her waist is, just to see if YOU'RE going to take notes and conform to HIS expectations. But sometimes, and I dare say, most of the time, it isn't quite as obvious... It's all very funny when it's blatant and doomed to failure, but it can be destructive when it actually works.
Have you ever witnessed how often LVM resort to approval-bait? They start speaking as if you owe them something, as if you should seek their approval somehow. For example, you're talking about a project you're working on and that you're planning to be done with in a couple of months, and they'll say something like "I'll be waiting to see the result in a couple of months then, don't disappoint me!". Like sir, I'm not doing this for you and I couldn't care less whether you're disappointed in me for not meeting the deadline that I have set FOR MYSELF, on a project that you hadn't even heard of less than two minutes ago, thank you very much. But to the unattentive or naive listener (or just someone struggling with social cues), this could sound like ordinary words of support or encouragement. It does feel good to finish a project and earn's someone's approval for it, and it's on that feeling that LVM prey because a lot of women have been conditioned to seek approval without learning to pay attention to the person it's coming from, and their potential motives.
They also love to engineer pointless competitions. For example, say that two of your female co-workers are often the first ones to show up to the office in the morning. Some scrote might take a notice, and playfully start making it into a competition by saying things like "Hmm, I wonder who's going to win the morning race this week, is it going to be Alice or Betty?? Looks like Alice won this morning, good job Alice!" and if one (or both) of these women is a little insecure, she might respond to that praise and start "playing the game". What was an ordinary desire to show up to work early will morph into a an ego-driven need, and soon she'll start showing up to work earlier and earlier just to beat the other one and gain praise from the useless scrotes. Or maybe Cathy, a third woman who, until then, had shown zero interest in arriving earlier than everyone, will suddenly start showing up first because now there is praise to be earned from it. This is a compliance test. This is how they know which women are vulnerable to manipulation.
I've witnessed first-hand some instances where parasitic scrotes infiltrate a female-dominated group and start pitting women against one another, transforming the energy from the inside so the women sacrifice their bond to comply to the scrote's wishes. They try to manipulate women into thinking their approval is worth something (the more insecure the scrote, the more intensely they try), and a lot of times it works when women aren't secure in themselves, or don't surround themselves with secure women. Think of a man infiltrating a group of pickmes and declaring that doing X or Y would win his approval -- though it's mostly done in subtler terms like "I think women who wear red are really sexy" and then he'll step back and see how many women seem to wear red more often. Or "I like women who have a playful demeanor" then sit back and watch how many of them start laughing more and acting younger than their age -- In a short amount of time, you can expect the pickmes to fight among themselves to showcase the most X or the most Y to get the most approval from the scrote. It's a subtle dynamic, but one scrotes have learned to fantasize about. Who wouldn't want to be the center of attention in a group of beautiful women? They almost instinctively seek women friend groups so they can attempt to destroy it from the inside, and reap all the benefits.
Ladies, beware. The most secure among us will see straight through the LVM's plan and ignore the game instead of playing it, and if that's you, kudos! But keep a close eye on your friends. How do they respond? Are they tempted to play? Are they diving straight in? Are they on the fence? Sometimes, you realize that whoever you thought to be a HVW will turn out to be the biggest of pickmes, but you can encounter women that are in a little bit of a gray area. Maybe they're younger and don't know better, maybe they're not sure how to react, maybe they're having a fawn reaction to the scrote in the heat of the moment without actually taking any of it seriously deep down (scrotes can rarely tell the difference).
It's always up to you to decide whether to cut contact with somebody. After all you don't want to foster a bond with a pickme who will stab you in the back to win some random scrote's favor, but in a lot of grayer cases I've noticed that I could lead by example. By refusing to play the game, or discrediting it from the get-go, I highlight the fact that it is a viable option (and often the easiest of all the options) to refuse to dance to their tune. And even if these situations are commonplace and hard to avoid, you always learn something down the line. The first thing being that whoever is instigating the game is an absolute LVM no matter what qualities he's been displaying until now. But then, you can also sit back and watch who's most vulnerable to this dynamic and chose to either try to snap them out of it or stop associating with this person.
I hope this helps! Happy vetting.
When I was friends with men, they would often talk about other female friends of theirs in a way that was subtle triangulation. Like “She tried to sleep with me but I refused.” Okay…. You’re not my boyfriend so I don’t care. Also, “press X to doubt.”😅 In every instance they would eventually want me to become texting buddies with the other female friends of theirs. They would say “I gave Ashley your phone number, I think you two would get along well.” I know he wanted me to fight with her or insist that I didn't want to talk to her.
Well, I played along and the other friend and I really did get along really well. We never became great friends, but there was no conflict, because neither of us were remotely interested in our mutual male friend. We didn’t care what he thought of us. Also, I don’t play jealousy games and I don’t compete with other women over men. Even when I was a PickMe I didn’t do that. The male friend would then stop talking about her, finally realizing his plan didn’t work.
Another of the many reasons we shouldn’t be friends with men. Even if he’s not interested in you, he’s going to need you to be interested in him and the games will never end.
Damn almost all men do this. I might draw attention to it next time, rather than ignoring it. How do we best address it so the women will react well to me confronting it? (Rather than all, oh no, *excuse his behaviour, dismiss woman*)
This is brilliant. This is a commonly overlooked trait of LVM. Thank you for discussing it so articulately 👏👏👏
I've Definitely experienced this, it feels good knowing I'm not going crazy. It reminds me of a friendship I've had with this girl, once some scrote came along boom she hates me and copies all of my habits and sees me as competition even though I've told her I'm practically gay. It sucks because I was just chillin and I thought I could just make friends, oh well. Glad to know I'm not going crazy.