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"I can’t ask for money, I need it to just fall out of the sky. I am too proud. There are so many people with money who love my work but I can’t bring myself to ask them for a dime to keep this show on the road."

Bruh, this is just a roundabout way of asking for money.

It's also a microcosm of a larger pattern: WBE never "just does" the thing he wants. He never "owns" his decisions. It's always accompanied by this annoying handwringing. This utterly effeminate way of approaching everything that makes it seem like this big moral shitshow when it literally does not need to be.

But this leads to another point: if WBE were to behave like a more stereotypical man, he would either not be writing about it at all or this entire thing would be a play-by-play report on a PUA forum read exclusively by other men instead of young women in a receptive state of arousal-sympathy-disgust. Only with this feminine presentation does he gain access to his sexual demographic of choice. The blog here is basically a weird combo of choose-your-own-adventure story and dating app profile (yes, Substack is also a dating app). Women can opt into the WBE story at any time they want, which feels doable and safe-ish because they have so much information about what WBE is like and has done that he feels familiar.

Now that I type it out, it's quite clear that this blog is getting WBE what he *actually* wants. He's made himself a successful sales funnel for both his books and his dick.

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I have an 18yo daughter… this normalisation of abuse and degradation disturbs me.

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