Is there a good book on understanding women? Their mentality

>77. I do not understand women and never will; I don't even want to. To desire to belong to someone, to long to be overpowered and commanded — such longings do not seem merely tough to empathize with to me but even absurd. How could anyone wish for such a thing? If I understood it at all it would mean that I am not a man, and by no means constitute a triumph of understanding on the male part of the species. Male and female: this means separate to all eternity, and all touted understanding is merely superficial. The reality, the truth, the essence of the difference are to all eternity ungraspable.

>>9945074
Male perspective:
On Women, Arthur Schopenhauer
Sex and Character, Otto Weininger

Female perspective:
The Manipulated Man, Eshter Vilar
The Sadeian Woman, Angela Carter

>>9945326
Thank you, anon!

>>9945326
You must mean 'bitter virgin' perspective

>>9945326
>Ctrl + f 'On women's
>Second post

Every time.

>>9945369
Schopenhauer isn't a bitter virgin. He's kind of SJW in places, because he doesn't think that women should be whores in London just because bitter virgin men exist there.

Otto's more of a self hating Jew, so women don't even get the lowest rung in his order of tripartite gender.

>>9945074
Try the short novel Pierre and Jean by de Maupassant.

It is mostly written from a man's rather bitter pov towards women, but in a twist towards the end, we get the woman's pov, and see how the man has misunderstood so much.

Now, what we find in this book is an understanding of women that comes from a very gifted writer who, I think, did indeed have a very keen and clear-eyed perception on this front.

I recommend the Penguin edition for the translation, and its inclusion of an essay on the art of writing by de Maupassant.

And again, the work is blessedly short, more a novella than a novel.

>>9945074
The DSM5.

>>9945074
Novels written by women
And note they are not all the same

To the Lighthouse.
It literally puts you inside the head of a woman.
And you have no idea wtf is going on.

>>9946022
Whats that?

>>9946370
he's memeing. it's a diagnostic psychology manuall

An Apology for Raymond Sebond

>>9945074
If you want to get what they think like, read books like Pride and Prejudice.

>>9947392
Montaigne's GOAT lengthy bird mentioned for the first time ever on /lit/. Congratulations, anon.

>>9945074
I heard there was this really good book on this subject called "We have this thread literally every week"

>>9945074
They seek popular outgoing and rich men. You don't need to read any more than that.

>>9948622
I'm poor, unemployed and I get so scared when I'm outside my eyes water

>>9948642
Just be yourself :)

>>9945074
Look no book will actually help you understand women. If you want to attract them, and have sex be a bit pompous and confident, as well slightly mocking. Even for the vaguely unattractive and or overweight. Don't boast about what you've done, who've you've read etc that's a turn off and makes you look like a pretensious dick. And whatever you do don't be bitter.

After that say you want a relationship. Women want someone who is reliable and driven. As well as someone who won't mind doing things together like watching Netflix, but not all day, variety is good.

virginia woolf imo

Anaïs Nin

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>>9945074

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>>9945080
First post best post.

>>9945074
There's a lecture by Freud called "On Feminity". It's pure genius.

>>9945080
source?

>>9949684
Alex Kierkegaard, from his aphorisms on orgyofthewill.net

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other women are my sisters, that entails them being my rivals

men are brutes

existential meaning