An experiment in the spirit of this thread:
Respond to this advice on women from the perspective of a bitter, jaded and blackpilled man who believes that it is impossible for men to find a good woman because women are bad, society is against men, and make excuses why none of these solutions will work
It all sounds nice on paper. “Just be godly, intentional, join the right churches, fly to Third World countries, pray a lot, stay pure, and magically a Proverbs 31 wife will materialize.” Cute fairy tale. Reality check? It doesn’t work anymore.
"Be the man you're looking for her to marry" — Sure, just self-improve endlessly for women who won't even look at you unless you already have looks, height, and money up front. And if you do, congrats: you're a wallet.
"Look where the right women are" — Where? Churches? LMAO. Churches today are full of single moms, feminists, "Jesus is my boyfriend" types who worship themselves, and girls riding the carousel Monday through Saturday before singing "Oceans" on Sunday.
"Seek modesty and authenticity" — You mean find the one in a thousand woman who isn't addicted to validation on Instagram, thinks modesty is oppression, and doesn’t have a secret "backup plan" boyfriend? Good luck.
"Go overseas" — Oh, because importing a wife from the other side of the planet will magically erase female hypergamy and entitlement? Newsflash: once they touch American soil and breathe the feminist air, they change. And fast. Ask the hundreds of men bled dry in divorce court by the "sweet traditional" wife they flew in.
"Build a relationship on Christ" — You think these women care? They say they care until a richer, better-looking Chad from their "Bible study" group shows interest, then it's "God is leading me elsewhere" and they ghost you in the name of Jesus.
"Focus on forgiveness and grace" — Translation: Accept endless disrespect, slander, cheating, divorce threats, and feminist rebellion — and smile through it.
"Build community, seek mentorship" — Yeah, because Boomer pastors and church elders who married their virgin wives in 1975 have any idea what it’s like to navigate a dating market that's basically a slaughterhouse for men.
Reality: Society backs women no matter what. Courts destroy men. Churches won't defend men. Feminism poisoned even "traditional" spaces. No one will save you. You're on your own. There’s no fixing this. Marry if you want to gamble your life away on a rigged system. Hope she doesn't change. Hope she doesn't divorce-rape you. Hope she doesn't teach your kids to hate you.
Me? I'm done playing. Enjoy the lottery.
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Pretty accurate I must say.
And that's why both of the approaches fail. Both the "pull yourself up by the bootstraps" and the "woe is me this culture is doomed" advice both are flawed. Here's what I wrote which addresses the core premise of all dating arguments:
Fundamentally, both sides of this equation are wrong. Both sides put too much importance on women, and not enough on God.
A man with God does not care about the outcome, he does not care if women are easy or difficult. A man with God is content either way and thanks God for his blessings no matter what they are.
If this topic bothers you, then you've got a spiritual problem. If this topic is all you think about it, you've got a spiritual problem. Put more God in your life and less worry about things we cannot control, which would be the women.
God is the answer to the problem that is the world. If the women weren't broken there would be something else weighing us down. That's why it makes no sense to let anything bring your spiritual state down. Focus on God, thank Him every day, and realize that all things happen for a reason to the salvation of our souls. Whatever trials we may be going through right now are there to help all of us, in ways we will never understand.
Patience, prayer, and faith are what will save us, not women, money, or power.
All advice which focuses on outcomes - in this case, either finding a wife, or protecting yourself from evils of women - are flawed and cannot hope to satisfy all men.
It's only when you stop caring about the outcome, and ground yourself in someone permanent, that will never betray you, and knows what's best for you - this is to say, our God Christ Jesus - that a man will find what he's looking for in life. The advice is always the same as it was given two thousand years ago:
25 “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you shall eat or what you shall drink, nor about your body, what you shall put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? 26 Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? 27 And which of you by being anxious can add one cubit to his span of life? 28 And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin; 29 yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 30 But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O men of little faith? 31 Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For the Gentiles seek all these things; and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. 33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things shall be yours as well.
Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and then all the things you need to be happy in life will be added to you.
The catch? When you receive such things, you will no longer need them. When a man has God, he does not need anything, and yet paradoxically, that is when God will be most generous to you. So by the time you get all the things you previously wanted, you'll no longer want them.
Thus, when one learns how to stop caring about women is exactly when God will decide if you need a woman or not.
In the old game forums of RVF, there was always a mantra of "outcome independence" and "abundance mentality." But these were just coping mechanisms and were shallow ways to deceive ourselves. There really isn't a whole lot of good women out there, and so this doesn't create outcome independence. With God, however, one can really be independent, and free themselves from the "Game" entirely, which, ironically, makes one far more attractive to women, even though that's not the intent.
Thus God is the real solution. Not forums, not strategizing. Read more scripture and saints, and post more in the Christian section of the forum. It's there for a reason!