Paradox of Female Attraction :- You can either love women or understand them. It is extremely difficult if not impossible to do both.

I am of the opinion that the typical love that men have for women has very strong religious vibe or feel to it.

In religion, you prostrate and submit yourself to the mercy and whim of this supposed divine figure who can be cruel but might still accept you for what you are. You perform many rituals to try and gain the favor of a deity, mainly to be in heaven after you die. You also follow scriptures and writings on how to appease the deity. However, the real reason you believe is that in your mind, without the deity, the ritual, the cult, you feel very lonely and lost.

In romantic love, the man prostrates and submits himself to the whim and the mercy of the woman, whom he views has a goddess that can be cruel and evil but will accept him and embrace him as he is. He performs many rituals to try and gain the favor of the goddess, from dating to sex which is a metaphor for the worshiper communing with his goddess in private for a taste of heavenly nirvana to getting down on one knee and presenting her with a ring which is synonymous with a lowly mortal presenting his goddess his binding chain as a symbol of his eternal submission. Men also sometimes read up on and follow certain How To books and learn Game to appease the women goddess. Nonetheless, the real reason the man does these things is that in his mind, his identity is defined by the validation and approval meted out by the goddess. If the goddess is not real or not what society hypes her up to be, he is forced to confront the reality that he lives in, a reality which consists of self interest, solitude, nihilism and death.

In this sense, MGTOW does to the female goddess what Science does to the divine metaphysical deity. It destroys the illusion, the myth, the fakery, the lies, the mystique and makes you confront the reality.

Instead of looking at the thunderstorms & lightning as a creation of Zeus or Thor or Indra, we now know that is due to a combination of static charge and process of evaporation and condensation of water. Instead of looking at the sunrise and sunset as an act of Helios or Amun Ra or Surya, we now know that the sun rises and the sun sets due to the heliocentric model of the universe and that the Earth spins on its own axis at a certain angle.

Instead of looking at women and seeing the cute adorkableness or the snow queen exterior masking a feminine interior or looking at her actions as being obfuscating or having a certain mystique...We now know better...We know know that she is merely a human female...Who is hypergamous, who practices a dual reproductive strategy popularly known as Alpha Fucks, Beta Bucks, who can be neotenous and have little to no agency, who is very cunning and emotionally manipulative, who shit tests the opposite sex to determine their viability as reproductive material, who have a very strong in-group preference, who has an apex fallacy when it comes to men or otherwise known as 80/20, who as a collective have a tendency of treating the human male as a mere utility and so on...

Often times we hear men in both the manosphere and in the MGTOW circles make statements like "the magic is lost with women" or "women are not what they used to be" or "the modern women is no longer feminine" or something along these lines...What they should realize that these statements reflect the inevitable and necessary shattering of the illusions and delusions that men have about women due to our biology and social indoctrination...

As such, instead of being depressed or sad or pining for the magic or pining for the days of yore where women were supposedly awesome, understand that the magic was never real to begin with. If the magic was real, it would not be called magic. If the mystique was real, it would be called reality, not mystique. Understand this, internalize this, accept this, and move on with your life...As an enlightened man, as a MGTOW.

Cheers.