Both perceive the world as unjust, only from drastically different perspectives: either tilting in women’s or men’s favor. But the deepest similarity between FDS and the broader manosphere is more than winking acronymic references and romantic strategizing. These parallels are by design: FDS was started in reaction to the notorious men’s right subreddit The Red Pill. (FDS’s disregard for certain types doesn’t end with men it also has little respect for women they call “Pickmeishas”-a woman in thrall of “ pick me” culture who will do anything for a man to “pick” them.) One of the primary aims of FDS advice is getting commitment from HVMs on their own terms. Meanwhile, “FDS has “high value males” and “low value males,” or HVMs and LVMs. The manosphere, for example, has “Average Frustrated Chimps,” or AFCs, meaning men who aren’t good with women, and their supposed opposite, the “Alpha Male of the Group,” or AMOG. ![]() Compare that to the notoriously misogynistic The Red Pill subreddit: “Discussion of sexual strategy in a culture increasingly lacking a positive identity for men.”Īs Madeleine Holden at MEL observed, both communities are gender essentialist and “see heterosexual relationships as an ultimate prize requiring ruthless strategizing and gaming.” Dominique Sisley at Vice pointed out that both rely on biological determinism and cliquish jargon. “We focus on effective dating strategies for women who want to take control of their dating lives,” it reads. Even the description of the subreddit has shades of the manosphere. “Men do everything and anything to gain attention from women.”įounded in 2019, FDS has drawn comparisons to the broader manosphere, the collection of online communities united in feminist backlash. In the parlance of the subreddit, women should avoid worthless “scrotes” and should always avoid “slanging pussy to fuckboys.” Women should also maximize their looks: “Your beauty, confidence, good company is a ‘commodity’ and can get you anything from men that crave just that,” writes one FDS poster. Women should tailor their personalities and engineer their dating life in order to get what they want from men. But for FDS, the prescription isn’t political but rather looks something like a 1950s dating manual. ![]() The growing subreddit describes a dating landscape in which women are up against everything from sexual assault to reproductive control, the orgasm gap to the sexual double standard. ![]() Female Dating Strategy wants to help women navigate the horrors of heterosexuality.
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