Matt Forney

Life is Short and So is This Book: Brief Thoughts on Making the Most of Your Life by Peter Atkins

by Matt Forney 05.24.2013
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What can you say about a book that you don’t like, but still accomplishes its goals? Life is Short and So is This Book is an airy-fairy book full of platitudes on how to improve your life: learn how to focus, try not to worry, don’t screw up your life by getting arrested or knocking [...]

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The Perils of Putting Too Many Links in Your Blog Posts

by Matt Forney 05.23.2013
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When you’re first starting out in the blog world, you will likely feel tempted to obsessively insert links to related articles, YouTube videos and other Internet pages in your posts. The reasons are threefold, and on the surface they all look like good ones: Linking is easy and ubiquitous. Back in the bad old 56k [...]

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I Was Robot by Ernest Mann

by Matt Forney 05.22.2013
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One of the joys of reading and learning about the past is discovering that many of the problems we’re dealing with today have been around for longer than we thought, and learning how our forerunners dealt with them. Enter Ernest Mann, a writer who is completely unknown to the manosphere (and the world at large), [...]

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OVO 20: Juven(a/i)lia by Trevor Blake

by Matt Forney 05.21.2013
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NOTE: In preparation for another book review I’ve written for tomorrow, I’m reposting this article, originally published at In Mala Fide on November 16, 2011. *** This is a best-of collection of articles and artwork from OVO, a zine founded and edited by friend of the blog Trevor Blake, “a public record of [his] interests and inquiries.” It’s [...]

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“Don’t You Even Have a Life?”

by Matt Forney 05.20.2013
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“Man, I wish I had all the free time you do.” “Man, I wish I had rich parents like you do.” “Man, I wish I was as lucky as you.” A lot of people wonder how I do it. I publish blog posts here three to five days a week. I’ve published three books and [...]

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Diary of a Manospambot

by Matt Forney 05.18.2013
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I posted this over at Roosh’s forum a few days ago, but I thought it was too good to let languish there, so I’m republishing it here. Enjoy! (Click here for the post’s inspiration.) *** I awoke with a pounding headache, last night’s drunken revelry calling my body’s tab. I drowsily smacked the Snooze button [...]

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The Thumotic 30-Day Challenge by Frost

by Matt Forney 05.17.2013
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When Frost launched his new site Thumotic several months ago, he included alongside it this e-book, a brief action plan detailing how to put the site’s precepts into action. I passed on originally because he was charging $4.99 for it. Recently though, Frost has made the Challenge free, probably because he’s now bundling it with the new [...]

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The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster

by Matt Forney 05.16.2013
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NOTE: As Vox Day referenced this article in his recent review of Infinite Jest, I’m reposting it here; it originally appeared at In Mala Fide on February 29, 2012. Books like The New York Trilogy are the reason why I completely abandoned trying to get my books released by a “real” publisher: the New York literary [...]

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End Game by Dirt Man

by Matt Forney 05.15.2013
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Dirt Man is one of the manosphere’s most interesting, underrated bloggers, mainly because he approaches masculinity and sex from a distinctly philosophical bent. Most people in the manosphere approach game from a utilitarian mindset—do x thing and become y so you can bang z girl—but Dirt Man looks beyond, to the great questions of life and [...]

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What’s Your Plan of Action?

by Remy Sheppard 05.14.2013
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Have you ever stopped, looked at yourself in the mirror and thought, “Man, I’m kind of a piece of crap?” Well I have some good news and some bad news for you! The bad news first, so we can rip off the Band Aid: you probably are a piece of crap! But the good news [...]

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Journey of a Red Pill Princess

by Matt Forney 05.13.2013
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Please welcome our very special guest contributor: Red Pill Princess. Oh hai there! If you’re wondering who I am, I’m a happily married 32-year old from St. Cloud, Minnesota who has swallowed the red pill. Actually, you could say that I swallow the red pill every day, twice a day! When I first started, the [...]

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RTFB: Read the Fucking Byline

by Matt Forney 05.10.2013

This post is not aimed at anyone in particular, but is intended to address a consistent problem with my blog and other blogs that occasionally accept guest posts. What happens is that many times when people read said guest posts, they attribute them to the blog owner instead of the person who wrote them… even [...]

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All About Women by Simon Sheppard

by Matt Forney 05.09.2013
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NOTE: With Alternative Right now publishing articles by Simon Sheppard, I’m re-posting my review of his anti-feminist pamphlet All About Women, originally published at In Mala Fide on February 21, 2012. Sheppard’s prosecution at the hands of the British government for politically incorrect speech is an absolute travesty and deserves to be better known. This is the end result [...]

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Enjoy the Decline by Aaron Clarey

by Matt Forney 05.08.2013
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Aaron Clarey is cooler than you. He’s an economist. He explores caves. He teaches salsa dancing. He rides a motorcycle. He collects fossils. He’s not married. He doesn’t have any kids. He’s self-employed and doesn’t answer to a boss. He lives life the way he wants to, not the way anyone else expects him to. [...]

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On Male Friendships: Part Four

by Adiaforon 05.07.2013
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Read First: On Male Friendships: Part Three In my very first guest post here, I mentioned an article by Alex Williams, which came out last year, on why it seems to be so hard to make friends after the age of 30. As a still-burgeoning member of the manosphere, I’m very interested in this subject because it [...]

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Election: The Greatest Manosphere Movie You’ve Never Seen

by Matt Forney 05.06.2013
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1999 was the year that the two most influential movies in the manosphere, The Matrix and Fight Club, came out. The Matrix obviously begat the red pill/blue pill analogy for the dichotomy between underground truth and mainstream lies, along with the manosphere’s general view of itself as being a band of rebels fighting a tyrannical society. Fight Club won over [...]

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