Current forms of Operant Conditioning are encouraging immoral behaviors.

Readership: Christian Men
Theme: Current Intersexual Dynamics
Author’s Note: This essay has some input from Red Pill Apostle.
Length: 1,700 words
Reading Time: 9 minutes

Intro / Theme Summary

In summary of this series on Intersexual Dynamics, we see that both men and women are believing whatever and doing whomever will give them an immediate positive reinforcement — the biggest bang for the buck, Right F_ing NOW!

Here, both Men and Women are transacting for what is falsely perceived to be the Best Value* Immediate Reinforcement (via operant conditioning) with bidders who appear to have the highest SMV (either Real of Virtual).

* By “Best Value”, I’m not using the word ‘value’ in the sense of an ethical or moral prerogative, but rather in the sense of economics; the choice out of many options that offers…

  • The best immediate ROI
  • “The most bang for the buck”
  • The highest quality and/or most quantity for the lowest investment / price, while emphasizing the latter

In a previous post, I called this “selling out cheap“, leading to vicious Vampirism.

A sane person might ask, “But why?”

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Explaining Transaction Mentality

Remember Taraban’s Equivalencies:

Taraban’s Equivalency: Attention / Validation is to women what Sex is to men, and these reinforcements (a la operant conditioning) constitute the primary sociosexual currency within the economic trade model of intersexual dynamics.

“Sex is the most reinforcing thing you can give to a man, and Attention is the most reinforcing thing you can give to a woman.”

To illustrate said operant conditioning, consider these stereotypical reinforcements (or the lack thereof):

  1. If there are no cultural guardrails to limit hypergamy, then women will engage in random acts of intercourse with whoever titillates their Tingles, leading to the disintegration of marriages.
  2. If women prefer to have Sex with criminals, jerks, and thugs over Christian, decent, hardworking men, then in general, this incentivizes men to be more careless and less moral.
  3. If women get more Attention by posting skin pics on social media and wearing skimpy attire than they do by dressing modestly, then in general, this incentivizes women to be more slorish and less modest.
  4. If men get more sexual satisfaction and less hassle and risk via OASIS, OnlyF@ns, P0rn, etc. than they would through interacting with real breathing women, then a virtual vice will be chosen.
  5. Those who offer the Highest Value Immediate Reinforcement, i.e., a high SMV (Real or Virtual) have cornered the SMP, and because they operate from a stronger position, they offer much less in return. They don’t have to. There are no incentives in place for them to do so. The immediate gratification they offer is enough to keep them in a position of supreme sociosexual power.

Note the downward spiral.

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It ‘works’ this way because Attention and Sex are what are most desired by women and men, respectively. These goods are incentives and reinforcements that exploit men’s and women’s psychological needs and weaknesses.  Granting these things is a positive reward that encourages more of the same behavior, whatever it might be.  NOT granting these things is a negative punishment that incentivizes them to change.

Getting women to put their clothes on and turn off their social media is about as difficult as getting men to stop sloffing curds on P0rn.

Consequences

Women are SELLING their Sex appeal, men’s most reinforcing good, because that’s easier and better than getting a real job, or submitting to a male provider.

Men are PAYING slores to receive their most reinforcing good, Attention, because that’s easier and better than paying a faithless wife for 20+ years.

However, it should be noted that other costs and benefits arise from these decisions later in life, so we’re also referring specifically to short-term transactions, hence the qualifier, ‘Immediate’.

Essentially, the aspects omitted from the transaction that increase the ‘bang’ and reduce the ‘buck’, IOW, short-term costs at the expense of long-term costs / benefits, are the benefits / responsibilities of marriage, family, and society, as DeBoer at Blendr News emphasized.

That’s like spending your entire retirement fund to rent Neuschwanstein Castle for 2 hours, and then living in a tent or under an interstate bridge for the next 30 years until you die.  It’s crazy, but that’s exactly what most women are choosing these days.

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It gets worse.

Current Operant Conditioning Teaches Women to Avoid Accountability

We already know Accountability is anathema to women for reasons explained before, but here’s a more detailed explanation of why this is.

“Introducing responsibility and holding women accountable are anathema to women’s psyche precisely because this tips the [balance of power] in the other direction [towards men].  When accountability is present, the blatant use of Sex Appeal becomes a liability, and Honeycraft increases in value — but that requires agency, emotional investment, maturity, responsibility, and work. Ugh!”

Looking at this through the lens of operant conditioning, being shamed (an inherent result of being held accountable) is a positive punishment, and losing power is a negative punishment, and both are unpleasant for them. 

OTOH, the benefits of being chaste, responsible, and spiritually obedient are not seen as much of a reward when compared to the jiggling juicy jollies of rebellion and sin, but this is exactly why bad behavior must be operantly associated with unpleasant stimuli; otherwise, the bad behavior will continue unthrottled.  But the problem here is that immediate, real-time rewards are associated with sin, and punishments are associated with accountability, and NOT sin.  Instead, we need to make sure that punishments are associated with sin, and accountability is associated with rewards.  Otherwise, we’re just pushing them further into sin.

All this is to say, rather tritely, that the most obvious difficulty with holding women accountable is that it is an unpleasant experience for them.  It is all stick and no carrot.  Naturally, what hypoagentic woman would willingly choose that?

In terms of using operant conditioning to guide, mold, and teach women, the eventual goal is to instill a love for truth, beauty, and goodness in them, as well as to trust men and respect male authority.  So the challenge here is in trying to create circumstances and situations in which women can learn the benefits of accountability through positive rewards.

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So here are a couple ideas RPA and I have come up with that might offer Positive Reinforcements for good.

1. Tiers of Transactional Quality

Red Pill Apostle posited,

“How would the analysis be altered, if at all, if we consider that both Sex and Attention are [Taraban’s] equivalents because they are the respective means of connection for each gender?

Attention is chiefly a relational action where men and women speak with one another. This means that there are different levels of attention, from the cheap Insta comments given to scantily clad women by orbiters, to deep and meaningful conversations where the woman feels that the man knows her (the latter being what some call an emotional affair). The level of attention is proportional to the depth of the connection.

Exchange Sex for Attention and switch the genders, and the analysis is similar. Men connect to women through Sex, and that ranges from the cheap inebriated hookup (Insta comment equivalent) to the bonds men feel when they have sex within the bounds of a committed, loving relationship.

I believe if we break Attention and Sex into tiers, they could be much more similar, even down to certain levels of Attention being socially frowned upon the same way sex is in some circumstances.”

In this view, one way to shift reinforcements towards encouraging what is good and right is for both sexes choosing to move themselves UP the tiers, or at least, NOT go down.  The problem with this strategy is that it is much more difficult for women than it is for men.  In general, women desire and greatly enjoy the defilement of moving down the tiers.

Another strategy is to start shaming Attention Wh0ring instead of ‘Following’ it and ‘Liking’ it, and throwing money at it.  The problem with this strategy is that it is much more difficult for men than it is for women.  In general, men love to gaze intently upon the fleshly beauty of the fertile, youthful female form, and their sexual appetites are never satisfied for any length of time longer than their refractory period.

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2. Rethinking Reinforcements as Fulfilling Relational Needs

If we draw a correlation between Taraban’s Equivalency and the Biblical adage given in Ephesians 5:33 that husbands should love their wives, and wives should respect their husbands, we have:

Love ≈ Attention, coupled with the validation, consideration, commitment, and investment that often attends Attention.

MGTOW is basically a lot of men refusing to love any women, thinking they’re not worth it. Women are shaken to the core.

Respect ≈ Sex, as well as the honor, loyalty, natural affection, pair bonding, sexual passion, and submission that often attends Sexual Devotion.

Immature Wives will often refuse to respect their husbands, thinking he hasn’t “earned” it. These men are stuffed and stymied to the max.

But if we consider that investing Love and Respect in one’s spouse can rise above the medieval morass of tit-for-tat and establish a whole new blessed paradigm, then we have transcended the entire sociosexual mismatch. The question is, who will be willing to put their foot out first, and risk that great loss?

Conclusions

I was thinking how bad all this looks, very bad in fact, when I suddenly realized that the SMP/MMP is actually moving closer to a Biblical ideal.  We have passed the nadir and are slowly making an ascent. It may be hard to see at this point, but we’re slowly getting there.

That’s all for this month’s study of Current Intersexual Dynamics.  Hope you enjoyed it.

Next month’s theme will break down some complex systemic paradigms, which I’ll call, Cracking Nuts.

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