After a year of collecting reader submissions for the most nauseating example of sack shriveling betatude the world over, a Beta of the Year “winner” has finally been announced! Based on popular vote, the winner of the 2009 BOTY is…..
Conor, the facsimile of a man who allowed a woman to walk all over him, bought a place for her and him, paid all her bills, and upon discovering her cheating responded in the only way an unrepentant beta could: by asking her what he could do to make her love him. Really, that sort of response is just pure essence of beta.
You can read the full story in this post (candidate #3). Congratulations go to reader Patrick for the winning 2009 BOTY submission. You, sir, with your keen ear for the sorriest specimens of manhood to walk the earth, have just won yourself a skeleton key to the boudoir of my Montreal harem, and a beer on me.
Prejudice and truth about the effect of testosterone on human bargaining behaviour
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v463/n7279/full/nature08711.html#abs
“Here we show that the sublingual administration of a single dose of testosterone in women causes a substantial increase in fair bargaining behaviour, thereby reducing bargaining conflicts and increasing the efficiency of social interactions. However, subjects who believed that they received testosterone—regardless of whether they actually received it or not—behaved much more unfairly than those who believed that they were treated with placebo. Thus, the folk hypothesis seems to generate a strong negative association between subjects’ beliefs and the fairness of their offers, even though testosterone administration actually causes a substantial increase in the frequency of fair bargaining offers in our experiment.”
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should have been you, mr. valenti
should have been you
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I believe I am A Glow Worm…………..
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Is the harem in Montreal, or from Montreal?
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No doubt he will thank her in his acceptance speech
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What a soft dude
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My God that’s painful….you might be a beta if some cheesey dj on a cheesy FM morning shows tells you that you need to, “Man Up!”
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Your average female listener will be more creeped out by this dude than your average guy will. Your average guy will say, “Man, he’s got it bad. He needs to grow a pair.” Your average girl will say, “Get the fuck away from me. You are a disgrace to the species.”
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The only acceptable location for a harem is Eastern Europe. Canadians are gross and hairy. If your concubines are Canadian R… you blow and bad taste in women.
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OT, but check out the cougar’s lament here.
After slutting around for a while, she married a 26-year-old intern when she was 40, then eventually her hubby dumped her for a younger, prettier woman he wanted to have kids with.
Oh that stings! Man, her ex-husband is awesome!
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It’s a radio broadcast of a “War of the Roses” prank that features a cuckolded man literally begging his cheating live-in girlfriend to stay with him.
Here we go again. roissy what is your fucking problem, please.
These shows are FAKE. They are typical no talent radio hack routines.
Why are you obsessed with this nonsense? Does it play on your insecurities about Devil Women always out to get the man?
Snap out of it man. You seem like a reasonable intelligent guy but sometimes you go way off the deep end.
This radio shit is FAKE!
The guy gets rejected by the girl at the sporting event routine is FAKE!
All the Lamebook pages are FAKE!
The Onion is FAKE!
Why can’t you see this?
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Off topic, but here is some research done by a dating site on what kinds of pictures get the most responses. Some myths are exposed.
http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/2010/01/20/the-4-big-myths-of-profile-pictures/
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Hip hip Hooorray!!
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Writing that, when you have just left your wife for (and these are his words) someone “young, slim, pretty, Indian” and have stolen her last childbearing years from her, is hitting pretty far below the belt.
This cracked me up.
[Even though, sadly, as ridiculous as it is, this is a rather common lament.]
can someone enlighten me? How exactly do you “steal” child bearing years from a woman? Must be kind of hard to do that without her noticing it…
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Montreal has the hottest women in North America…and they’re quite slutty!
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Thanks, Conor, you’ve exceeded my expectations. You know you’re Beta Of The Year when people think the guy who still loves the wife that slashed his throat is more of a man than you are.
Anyway, the Montreal harem sounds great, but what about an Israeli harem?
In Israel, the Messiah with More Than 30 ‘Wives’
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1954600,00.html
A possible alpha of the year?
When you look like this, and you can maintain a harem of young women who revere you as the Messiah, with rules (and fines!) like these…
4. No woman shall sit idle when there are dishes to be washed, cleaning to be done, children to look after etc.
Fine: 2,000 shekels
6. It is absolutely forbidden to question Ratzon on his whereabouts or intention.
Fine: 400 shekels
8 No woman shall interrupt Ratzon or intervene in matters not concerning her.
Fine: 500 shekels
… then you sir, are an alpha.
And is it me, or is the overbearing tone of these exposés (and prosecutions) of polygynous harems one of jealousy and an indignant sense of “unfairness” ?
Alleged crimes notwithstanding, the cultural reaction to these men and their unique domestic arrangements seem to be “how dare he!” along with a distinctly paternalistic treatment of the women who are always assumed to be deluded victims who don’t know what’s good for them.
Because they flagrantly violate the West’s beta-cultural code of one wife (sexual partner) per man, such men and all of their other activities come under the increased scrutiny of the authorities and media.
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French Canadian women are dope. Even Ottawa has beautiful women, though Montreal is even better.
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this outcome is really puzzling to me, and unfortunate because it makes less of a statement. mr. j. valenti would definitely been my top choice if offered. i listened to the recording of our winningest beta – it is beta, but altogether unexceptional. your voting readers failed you roissy.
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11minutes: “How exactly do you “steal” child bearing years from a woman? Must be kind of hard to do that without her noticing it”
Women always think of it this way … after you’re gone. “I gave the best years of my life to you,” is pretty much what every post-30 woman will say to you after you dump her from a LTR of any kind.
In ye olden days of yore, the post-30 woman would actually have given you the best years of her life: the pre-30 years. Instead, they generally give the best years of their life to the dong-carousel, and take it out on the poor saps who date them later in life.
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“a skeleton key to the boudoir of my Montreal harem” = a Google maps link to a “full contact” Montreal strip club.
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should have been you, mr. valenti
should have been you
That will happen AFTER he gets cucked up.
That has not yet happened.
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Beta is this Guy.
shoot me if i’m ever this guy in this video.
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“That will happen AFTER he gets cucked up.
That has not yet happened.”
true. we will all know the morning after it happens, since it will be immediately blogged about to an understanding audience. then, linked to here for another understanding audience.
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As, notwithstanding all that wit, or malice, or pride, or prudence will be able to suggest, men and women must at last pass their lives together, I have never therefore thought those writers friends to human happiness, who endeavour to excite in either sex a general contempt or suspicion of the other. To persuade them who are entering the world, and looking abroad for a suitable associate, that all are equally vicious or equally ridiculous; that they who trust are certainly betrayed, and they who esteem are always disappointed; is not to awaken judgment, but to inflame temerity.
–Samuel Johnson
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Libby-
look who’s talking, the guy who foams at the mouth and goes rabidly off the deep end for paragraphs on end whenever someone mentions the merits of black cock or looks of black women. Unintentional irony, thy name is Libby.
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If it’s fake, it’s really good acting. Better than the acting in 99% of pornos.
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Yea he was a good example of someone who could not learn from a mistake.
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It fake.
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If you are going to love someone, you’re better off knowing what you are loving. Sure, not all women are the same, but as a group they share a lot of traits, some of which are fun, some absurd, some dangerous, and some in opposition to the interests of men. If you want to get the best out of interacting with women, you’d best understand them. But understanding a car is not enough, you need practice in driving it. Cars are dangerous tools.
It would be dangerous to get into a car without understanding and skill. Same for women.
And so I think temerity is called for – the temerity to say bullshit to the head games that women play, and the temerity to play headgames right back at them.
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woops – the above is Xsplat, quoting Kevin, quoting Samuel Johnson. Inflaming temerity.
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Apologies if anyone’s posted this already in another thread.
“Math Geek Comes Up With Equation to Explain His Lack of a Girlfriend”
http://www.asylum.com/2010/01/11/peter-backus-mathematical-equation-that-you-shouldnt-feel-bad-if-you-dont-have/
“Backus reimagined the equation by inserting U.K. population figures along with the general parameters for his potential girlfriend: a woman between the age of 24 and 34, with a university degree, whom he finds attractive. Simple enough. But there are complications. First, the woman in question must find him attractive (a 1-in-20 chance, he estimated). Second, she must herself be single (50-50). Lastly, he must get along with her (1-in-10).
The result of the equation? Of the roughly 30 million women in the U.K., only 26 are potential mates for Backus. In his conclusion to the paper, Backus expresses this more depressingly: “On a given night in London, there is a 0.0000034 percent chance of meeting one of these special people.””
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That’s hilarious.
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Beta male serial killing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belle_Gunness
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[…] ‘Beta Male of the Year’ AwardPosted on | January 24, 2010 | No CommentsI’m sure the name of the winner at Roissy in DC is merely a coincidence:Conor, the facsimile of a man who allowed a woman to walk all over him, […]
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Love the site, but I am still reading though your old posts.
Can’t comment more at the moment, but Roissy thought you would find this interesting as further validation for your theories. Might make a good post.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704869304574596193584067688.html?mod=rss_opinion_main
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This thread seems quiet, so might as well drop this in.
For the marriage minded betas, keep in mind that women instigate most divorces. My theory is that they divorce for economic advantage. The husband still pays why they do do something more fun.
Here is a quote from the NY Times today in an article about the wife being the money maker.
While it’s widely believed that a woman’s financial independence increases her risk for divorce, divorce rates in the United States tell a different story: they have fallen as women have made economic gains. The rate peaked at 23 divorces per 1,000 couples in the late 1970s, but has since dropped to fewer than 17 divorces per 1,000 couples. Today, the statistics show that typically, the more economic independence and education a woman gains, the more likely she is to stay married. And in states where fewer wives have paid jobs, divorce rates tend to be higher, according to a 2009 report from the Center for American Progress.
Got it? As women contribute more financially to the marriage, they are less likely to want to divorce. Keep that in mind when marrying, if you must. Note that the NY Times doesn’t mention which party instigates the divorce.
This is just more bad news for woman who just want to have kids and stay home and raise them, but, hey, that’s progress.
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@avalued commodity
Why you must save the money from those tasks you have done so you can be free. You must do for yourself.
Of course most won’t because it is to hard.
If it was so great and so free of a system why is the system so against suicide. A way to permanently leave the system he he he
@joel
You should get the stats for percentage of marriages that end in divorce or predicted to end in divorce like 50 percent. So really the number of people getting married is going down and the nyt is slightly midleading he he he
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Aw! I wanted it to be December – the guy who gets nearly killed yet wants the fugly back.
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I like this BOTY choice. The spirit of Beta Awards is to recognize an otherwise normal male who does extremely beta things. Though my choice was the dude who helped his wife lay flowers on her lover’s grave.
Not so much a guy who seems like an outlier loser, mentally ill, abnormal masochists, or a wierdo outlier o m e g a in some way, like the oddballs who loved the women who tried to kill them. They are a freak show, not a cautionary tale.
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A close contender was the ageing SWPL who mewled about his ugly Argentinain wife’s spending habits.
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I nominate Peter, for most persistent.
Peter Persistent, Jr.
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That piece on “Alpha Wives” by the NYT is LOLbad.
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Peter is my choice, if not for BOTY, at least for BOTB (“beta of the blog”).
how much a freak and a weirdo a guy must be just to browse those sites then linking to pictures there?
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That audio clip was totally fake! If you are going to have a vote for Beta of the year, I really think you should only include real Betas as opposed to actors.
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Young women and teenage girls often face efforts by male partners to sabotage birth control or coerce pregnancy — including damaging condoms and destroying contraceptives — and these efforts, defined as “reproductive coercion,” frequently are associated with physical or sexual violence, a study by a team of researchers led by UC Davis has found.”
Source:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100125094503.htm
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Don’t know if you’re a House fan, but you should definitely check out tonight’s episode for a candidate for TV’s beta of the year for 2010.
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Young women and teenage girls often face efforts by male partners to sabotage birth control or coerce pregnancy — including damaging condoms and destroying contraceptives — and these efforts, defined as “reproductive coercion,” frequently are associated with physical or sexual violence, a study by a team of researchers led by UC Davis has found.”
Source:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100125094503.htm
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Naa blank it is the other way around the surprize pregnancy has been a tried and true method of getting guys to marry them for a long time. Using that old are you gonna be a man and support your responsibility type crap.
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I’d love to see if that data controlled for socio-economic status. I do know that higher SES couples divorce less overall, and two-income families have higher SES.
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I know women aren’t supposed to find you truthful, let alone amusing, but both are true for me. I know it’s been a while since I posted these, but they’re such wonderful blog fodder for you, that I can’t resist:
http://getonthe.blogspot.com/2009/02/speed-bumps-ahead-part-i.html
http://getonthe.blogspot.com/2009/02/speed-bumps-ahead-part-ii.html
It just so happens that he’s three seats down the bar from me tonight, and he’s pulling the same old schtick. I actually feel sorry for the guy.
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how to leave your husband
http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/CollegeAndFamily/SuddenlySingle/HowToLeaveYourHusband.aspx
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Nice find David.
How many of you think that an article called “How to Leave Your Wife” could ever get published in the MSM in the same way?
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considering those “War of the Roses” phonecalls are ALL FAKE, this is a rather disappointing recipient of the BOTY Award. my money is on August (1st), and February (2nd).
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