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But if you bring her something she values, same idea. It's no different. Something she values can be a dead deer carcass or, I don't know, tickets to one direction. What the fuck? I don't know. But the thing is the idea is the same. You're showing you can provide resources. Yeah. So you just have to go one level of abstraction up. It's not about actually bringing back the mammoth meat. It's about resources that matter to her. It's not necessarily about your fame as a warrior in a tribal society. It's a little more abstract. How much respect do you get among the peer group that she knows? And as long as you can make that abstractive leap, which I hope most of our fans can do. We're trying. We're teaching them. Then you suddenly have the insight. You've got a window into a woman's soul so that you can not just understand her preferences, but this is crucial. Respect them. Just for a second. I know we've talked about this before and we're going to talk about it again. Why is it so important to respect women's preferences? Because here's the thing. It's not even like, I don't think either of us are sitting at this table being wagging our finger at guys saying you have to respect women or whatever. Yes, respecting women is great. But that's actually not what you're saying. It's not about just because a lot of guys take whenever someone says respect women, they map that onto act like an obsequious coward, which is the last thing you're saying. I know what you're saying. But explain what you mean when you say respect their preferences. Respect their preferences means understand there's a deep evolutionary logic to why they want the things they want. And that by feeling romantic and erotic attraction to the guys they feel attracted to, they're actually embodying millions of years of female wisdom about how to succeed in life and how to reproduce effectively. So you can have this patronizing attitude that goes, oh my God, women, they read these romance novels and they're attracted to these pirate captains and all this bullshit. And what is going on there? It's just irrational. It's not. The more you understand this and the more you see that hidden adaptive logic behind what women want, the more seriously you take it. And the more you think, oh my God, it's actually my job as a man maturing to respect those preferences and fulfill them as best I can. Rather than, oh, rather than a women are irrational and I have to find some seduction tactic that doesn't end wrong around their preferences in some manipulative sociopathic way. Well, at the very least you're understanding them so that you can be effective in pairing up with them, right? I think here's actually another sort of thing we didn't talk about yet that explains why women's preferences should be respective and why they're rational. It's not just about seeking out good genes or good attributes. It's also about avoiding shitty attributes. You talked about avoiding sort of genetic lots of mutation, you know, people have bad genes, right? But there are people who have good genes who are fucked up too though. I mean like psychopaths, narcissists, crazy people, rapists, etc. Talk a little bit about why women's preferences, how women's preferences have evolved to protect them from those types of people. Yeah, there's a misunderstanding that, okay, evolution gives women attraction to certain physical traits in males, right? Height and handsome face. But then all this weird concern that women have about a man's character, right, or his moral virtues. Oh, that's just civilization. No, no, no, no. Women have always cared about character because what you do not want is the guy who seduces and abandons you. That's actually almost worse in some ways than a guy with maybe not optimal genes who's going to stay. Yeah, depending. Yeah. Even if he's got great genes, if he promises commitment and love and romance and to be there once you're pregnant and you're breastfeeding, you're dependent, and then he flakes out on you, that's a disaster. We know from the anthropological studies of these hunter-gatherer societies that if a guy abandons a woman or if he has a hunting accident and he's killed, you know, the likelihood of her baby surviving drops from like 80% to about 30%. It's a huge cost. And so any guy who actually proves to be, you know, sociopath, the psychopath, the manipulator, just in it for the short term, that's a disaster. And that's why women have this exquisite radar, right? Creep. Creep detector radar. Yeah, weirdos.