> You can be "good" (nice, moral, religious, kind) and it won't get you anywhere; in fact it will hurt you in the long run.

Maybe. I still think this is what we need to be, though. Because as much as we don't recognize it anymore, women are still fragile. They're the weaker sex. They age worse as a general rule. They're extremely easy to take advantage of - and they are often but the State, for better or ill, protects them from feeling the worst of it.

As gay and LARPy as it sounds, what we really need to be is a "knight", figuratively-speaking. Noble and virtuous, but also strong and willing to cave in another man's head if the need should truly arise. Not a beta, not a thug, but a mix of the best of both parts.

If you manage to find a good girl, you need to be beta enough to want to cherish her and protect her (especially from her own worst impulses) but alpha enough to be able to do it.

Otherwise, you're just going to be part of the problem. You're going to create another alpha-widow and more children of single mothers.

Maybe I'm still too idealistic, but that's what I want to do. I want to walk that line.