Jun 25 2008
How to Deal with Male Competition when Meeting Women
Have you avoided approaching a girl just because she is talking to another guy?
Or maybe you avoided approaching a group of girls with one or two guys with them because you feared embarrassment just because you ASSUMED that those guys were cooler than you.
There are two reasons why guys have a fear in talking with women who were with other guys.
They assume that the girl is “with” the guy, and assume he’s her boyfriend.
Guys shouldn’t think this as a barrier of talking to a woman. Plus - she’s not a guy’s “slave” or a piece of property, so she is free to talk to whomever she chooses, especially in a social situation like in the bar where people meet other people.
Approaching oftenly a woman who is “with” a guy can make you look more confident, and draw out the jealous side of the guy, making him look insecure and weak.
The other reason points to a deep insecurity based on a simple misconception that’s why they avoid talking to woman who is “with” a guy.
Men tend to be threatened by other men, they assumed that the “other guy” is more cooler, stronger, or somehow powerful than they are.
This is founded in an ancient survival strategy that has been hardwired into the human brain.
It’s often hard to tell who the more “dominant” human is in any given interaction. The social hierarchy is very subtle, and mostly unconscious. So when a male is confronted by another male, he doesn’t know how dominant the other guy is.
As was probably common thousands of years ago, a guy doesn’t know if he will be embarrassed verbally.
So it’s smart to play it safe by assuming that the other guy is a threat. Males who were too bold may have won a few confrontations, but all it took was one loss to end up dead or exiled from the tribe.
And then their genes were eliminated from “race” so to speak.
Those guys that avoided confrontation and played safe are the one that can successfully reproduce and survive.
The irony is that nowadays this hard-wired survival strategy is the basis for most approach anxiety - men makes a false assumptions that will lead them to avoid approaching women unnecessarily.
The thing is, when you are in the bar or club and you see a woman talking to another guy, you would think she’s not WITH him.
Usually, they JUST MET!
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve approached a woman thinking she was “with” a guy, only to find out he was some random dude who just approached her. Or he was just a friend or relative.
I have regrets when I remember that I used to completely not talking to a woman because I saw her being with another guy. So many opportunities that I’ve wasted. This brings me to my first point:
I SHOULDN’T ASSUME THEY ARE TOGETHER UNTIL I SEE A PHYSICAL EVIDENCE. I DON’T KNOW WHAT HE MEANS TO THE GIRL.
Approach a woman so that you will know what they really are. Just remember to be alert and respectful, because in the off chance they are together, the guy may be the insecure jealous type and start a physical confrontation.
So use your brain - just don’t be stagnant in making a false assumptions.
Another thing that I want to talk about is the idea that the other guy can be more “dominant” than you are.
The concept of the alpha male is completely outdated. In the caveman days, the alpha male had real power - he had access to resources like food, and was physically stronger, so he could beat up competitors.
But ask yourself if those power still exist today. Every man can survive on his own if he has the source of income - you probably have an access to food and shelter if you’re reading this. You’re all set.
Plus, its illegal to use the physical strength just to beat people up. It is pretty much irrelevant to use in the modern world.
You’ll always end up losing if you attack another person because the police always win.
If you mind doing that, you are LETTING RANDOM MEN TO STOP YOU FOR NO REASON!
Just excuse my French, but who is HE to say who YOU talk to???
It was annoying - remembering all the girls I missed out on because I was scare about some DUDE. And I get mad knowing that the other guys are dealing with some crap!
When time comes that you’re on your deathbed, you are going to reminisce on all the things you did and didn’t do. How painful would it be to say “I didn’t meet that woman because I was worried of the other guy she’s with,” or “there were a lot of beautiful that I could have enjoyed, but I didn’t even try to approached them because I saw them TALKING to another guy.
I don’t want to happen that to you.
So let’s look at this on a deeper level. Seeing another guy as more dominant means you don’t truly understand dominance.
You see, if you’re concerned with who is more dominant you instantly make yourself NOT dominant. There’s a better focus.
Dominant men don’t think about who is dominant. To be dominant, you must first THINK like a dominant man. So what do dominant men think about? Whatever it is they are doing or want.
You see a group of girls talking to another guy. Instead of being concerned with who is more dominant between the two of you, just stay focus on the girls.
I rarely even acknowledge other guys, because too often it’s proven to be a waste of time. 9 times out of 10 the girls don’t even know the guy - they just met him.
Or if they do know the guy, it’s because he was a friend of ONE of the girls, and the rest barely know him.
It’s rare for girls to go out with a guy they are dating - usually they will bring a guy who is more of a protector/friend because a guy like that is more valuable when they go out on the town.
And aside from that, if he IS with one of the girls, then it will be a fair game because it means that he’s NOT with the other girls.
When you are concerned with who’s the alpha male, you are by definition NOT the alpha male. In fact, it’s questionable whether alpha males truly exist in the modern world.
Don’t assume anything, get your focus in a USEFUL place, and don’t let some random dude prevent you from enjoying YOUR LIFE!