What We Can Learn From Marlon Brando

From A Streetcar Named Desire, a virtual visual manual in how to attract women by being firmly grounded in your own sense of things and telling it like it is. Study it carefully.

Stanley Kowalski is played by Marlon Brando, and Blanche Dubois is his wife’s sister, played by… uh, it doesn’t matter.

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Blanche: Oh, in my youth I excited some admiration. But look at me now! Would you think it possible that I was once considered to be attractive?

Stanley: (healthy pause) Your looks are okay.

Blanche: I was fishing for a compliment, Stanley.

Stanley: I don’t go in for that stuff.

Blanche: What stuff?

Stanley: Compliments to women about their looks. I never met a dame yet that didn’t know if she was good-looking or not without being told, and some of them give themselves credit for more than they’ve got. I once went out with a dame who told me “I’m the glamorous type.” She says, “I am the glamorous type.” I say, “So what?”

Blanche: And what did she say then?

Stanley: She didn’t say nothing. That shut her up like a clam.

Blanche: Did it end the romance?

Stanley: Well, it ended the conversation, that was all. You know there are some men, Blanche, that are took in by this Hollywood glamour stuff and there’s some men that just aren’t.

Blanche: I’m sure you belong in the second category.

Stanley: That’s right.

Blanche: I cannot imagine any witch of a woman casting a spell over you.

Stanley: That’s right.

Blanche: You’re simple, straightforward and honest. A little bit on the, eh, primitive side, I should think. To interest you a woman would have to?

Stanley: — Would have to lay her cards on the table.

Blanche: Well, I never did care for wishy-washy people. That was why, when you walked in here last night, I said to myself “My sister has married a man!”

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What to say? True manliness comes in not letting anyone, and especially women, sway you from what you know to be true, for you. Fuck yeah Stanley.

“Common Sense Will Send You The Wrong Way In Life”

Coming home from a night of carousing in Boston and got out of the T to come across two drunk, possibly semi-homeless, dudes in Central Square. At one point, one of them mumbled to himself: “Common sense will send you the wrong way in life, man.”

How much better of a ringing endorsement for one of the fundamental tenets of Game could you get? What women say they want and what they actually respond to are vastly different.

Almost all of it is counter-intuitive. Or, better put, counter to the media/cultural overlay we’ve allowed to cover up our actual masculine intuition… which says grab her hair, fall on top of her, and fuck her like you’re going off to battle and never coming back.

(Go check out the NY Times article “What Do Women Want?” describing, among other things, the wide prevalence of women’s fantasies of “willful submission” and the fact that they often deny subjectively what they objectively find sexually arousing…)