• Image one: Hyde Road, Gorton, Manchester, Wikipedia. This looks more modern than when I walked in that direction toward my flat, that is out of this photo, and past the St. James Church on the right.
• Nice upgrade.
• I lived in Manchester 1999-2001, with return trips in 2004, again in 2004 and in 2009...
• The area seemed to progress significantly from when I left in the few years with my short visits.
• Image two: Hyde Road, Gorton, Manchester, Wikipedia. This is the Gorton, I remember, with older looking, less bright, buildings.
• Image three: More wise words from my online friend, Pastor David Pitman. I will add that we only live this moment.
• Again for clarity, I hold to a Christian worldview within the Reformed tradition.
• I do not hold to MGTOW (Men going their own way) or formally Red Pill, although I certainly am in agreement with a significant amount of Red Pill thinking; notably differing where it does not follow a New Testament sexual ethic and marriage ethic.
• It needs to be considered that generally, Red Pill reviews of modern dating and marriage are reviewing secular approaches within a secular worldview.
• I agree with the host and disagree with the first video featured. (Paraphrased) Everyone is entitled to his/her own preferences.
• For example, typically, as I have scaled down in size, especially most recently, I will attract more women, as I look closer to an 'ideal' weight for someone my height, in western society.
• This might not be a medical ideal, or the fitness ideal, but it is generally considered in western culture, the esthetical ideal.
• I have roughly, rejected as many as I have been rejected by, by the way.
• A person's preferences should be respected.
• However, for balance, I will add that biblically and theologically, as seeking God' s will be done. a Christian should not seek meticulous, personal, control of his/her dating/marriage life. That should be prayerfully given to God, seeking his perfect will.
• In other words, our preferences should be secondary to God's preferences...
• 13 These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life. 14 This is the confidence which we have [a]before Him, that, if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. 15 And if we know that He hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests which we have asked from Him. New American Standard Version I John 5: 13-15
• I think the data and links below, generally represent people attempting meticulous control of her, in this case, romantic life...
• Cited: No matter how selective a woman might be, some have strict physical attributes from their must-haves list, as an OkCupid study found that women find 80 percent of men unattractive.
• Cited: In reality, the bottom 80% of men are fighting over the bottom 22% of women and the top 78% of women are fighting over the top 20% of men.
• Cited: Tinder interaction the male is likely to “like” the female 6.2 times more often than the female “likes” the male.
• Cited: According to this analysis a man of average attractiveness can only expect to be liked by slightly less than 1% of females (0.87%). This equates to 1 “like” for every 115 females. The good news is that if you are only getting liked by a few girls on Tinder you shouldn’t take it personally. You aren’t necessarily unattractive.
• Yes, I receive some female attention, but with those statistics, it is not surprising that MGTOW and Red Pill are movements growing in popularity.
• I seek the meticulous guidance, very imperfectly, of the Lord, in my life.
