myth's Belated DMSI 3.1 Journal

[myth]

Pondering #2:

I know that mentioning hypotheses to the cat herd rarely ends well, but this isn't meant as an excuse for anyone to torpedo their results.

I occasionally wonder if any of the biggest DMSI resistors out there may be subconsciously resisting on the basis of "not joining a club that would have [them] as a member" and/or past "practical joke" trauma, seeing attraction to themselves as an unattractive quality in others ("too keen") due to:

• Perceiving low value in the female (poor decisions) for showing interest
  
• Perceiving ulterior motives in the female (suspicion) for showing interest
  
• Perceiving danger in the female (distrust/fear) for showing interest
  
• Perceiving a need to defend against the female (expectation of attack) for showing interest
  
• Perceiving less sense of accomplishment (no conquest) with interested females versus uninterested females
  

I'd also wonder if men who adopt that subconscious point of view also actually see others' rejection of them (while clearly consciously undesirable) as an attractive and encouraging quality for inverse reasons, under the impression that the not-attracted (misread: IDGAF) females are too trustworthy to betray them, too sensible to consider them, or a more tempting challenge than attracted women are... and, counter-intuitively, higher value. Essentially, if they've subconsciously cross-wired rejection as positive/safe/appealing and attraction as negative/dangerous/unappealing. If this is the case, then I'd also wonder if the snipers and anti-sniper might do more harm than good for such a person until they're healed, focusing them even more on the not-attracted and even less on the attracted.

As a side note, I wonder if this same logic, with roles reversed, might explain why IDGAF seems to work so well at attracting others. If so, that might say quite a bit about who's attracted by the IDGAF treatment. Not sure that I like what that says about the wisdom of fishing for a healthy-minded partner with IDGAF bait. Hmm.