Everyone is Either a Zero or a Ten.

this is a video response to the hot
crazy matrix video that's going around the internet right now on the bottom here we're going to use the money axis over here we're going to have the pig axis by default being born male it's unfortunate but it puts you out of five and it just goes up from there to a 10 which is a dreadful human being as a rule this is your no-go zone okay you do not date or hang out or marry men who are at least in our minds of five there is a supplemental graph for girls who will date marry a guy who's a five and under for his money if you're not at a seven level hot and you're below that and you're broke ass that's a no-brainer you're just dealing with like ex-convicts people will probably come over and squat in your house steal your you don't want to deal with these people this area is your dating zone and um this is an area it's a broad range of pig it's a broad range of money it's you could get stuck here for an eternity your goal is to move down in here this area here is where you get the promise ring whatever that is uh the engagement ring and then suddenly you find out oh my god it's 15 years later and now you can't even get over here to these guys in the basement these are the dudes that are probably like gonna come over your place want you to cook for them while they have their hand down their pants scratching their balls while they're watching football on a sunday on a lazy boy they're not gonna take you anywhere they're not gonna do anything for you they're not good looking they're not earning this is not where you want to be above an eight hot and in between about a seven and a five that is your husband zone the pig scale is a blessing and a curse it's what makes a guy fun but it sadly is also what makes the guide choke you with your sports bra and dump you into a wooded area so just know if you're in the fun zone that the fun can turn into death or danger at any moment it's just all related to where we are here my sling is editorial explicit material briefcase show live and stereo flow fill me there was a time when the internet was a place that people came to have fun they came to make jokes they came to take risks and there's always an element of risk involved in humor and today we all know better nobody makes any jokes on the internet anymore the internet is a place where people's lives are ruined their careers are ended they get canceled they have to move to florida grow a beard change their legal name spend the rest of their time on a fishing boat avoiding questions and people say didn't i see you on tick-tock all right so we all know now that it comes from the internet you're basically placing your head on the chopping block for public judgments don't even try to make a joke just don't just don't but there was a joke made at least six years ago to my memory i think it's more like eight years ago there was some guy who's some kind of gun instructor on a shooting range who spontaneously got up in front of a white board and drew up a chart of the relationship between how hot women were in his terms and how crazy they were and this became a sensation about six years ago a whole sequence of satirical reactions to this video mostly made by women got millions of views in the original video itself i don't know who uploaded it first or where it was uploaded first to my memory that video is so old that it's from the era when youtube wasn't the only contender in the online video services game i think there were other websites it might have been uploaded it might have been on dailymotion or one of those competitors it might be somewhere else that at first found its foothold that it first found science so what he presents us with here most fundamentally is this diagonal line in the middle of the chart and that diagonal line seems to insinuate that the more attractive a woman is the crazier she is i always point out this is actually a misinterpretation of the chart it is not telling you that as women become more attractive they become more crazy what it's depicting is the male willingness to tolerate how crazy a woman is increasing with how attractive she is so you can actually take this chart and read it as a critique of or a satire of the male mentality that's really what's being made fun of here it's not just making fun of attractive people for being crazy nor is it saying that unattractive people are more often the same it's it's really making fun of the shallowness of what it is men look for women and how they look for them the assumption is that men are just trying to get with a woman who is as attractive as possible while being tolerably crazy while testing the limits of their own tolerance for craziness now as you may have assumed my own perspective on relations between the genders is very much diametrically opposed to this i think that it's really important in your own mind and in your own heart and your discussions with your friends to totally get rid of this idea of an incremental scale between 1 and 10 for how attractive somebody is i think you have to really commit to the idea that everyone you meet everyone you interact with everyone you choose to pursue or not pursue is either a 0 or a ten what do i mean by that when you meet someone when you flirt with someone when you interact with someone there are really only two possibilities either this person is so attractive to you that you're willing to take a risk that you're willing to stick your neck out and embarrass yourself or they are not and that's it that's the whole range of variables and when you think about it that way there's no point ever comparing two different women right it's like oh i think this woman is an eight and this woman's a knight no there's no point when you knew that woman whether she was your co-worker or someone you studied with the university or somebody you met at the grocery store i mean those are hype those are high pressure situations you meet someone at the grocery store are you really gonna are you really gonna try to embarrass yourself you're gonna try to start a conversation out of the blue what do you meet someone at the library oh hey i noticed you're in the reference section it's embarrassing it's embarrassing for everyone even if it works out even if you go to coffee or something you're both going to laugh about the fact that you met in a you know in the library and you had this embarrassing encounter and women have embarrassed themselves coming at me that way and i have some degree of sympathy or pity for them it's it's embarrassing it's awkward for everybody but i mean there's no point putting people on a span between 1 and 10 and evaluating them relative to other people either you're willing to take the risk or you are not and every single time you're risking more than your embarrassment because among other things you're risking your reputation i don't know why people only talk about this with women like people talk as if only women have a reputation to defend and not men i had a friend he was a bodybuilder and i remember talking about the fact that well there's this one girl in my gym i'm interested in but let me tell you if i start chatting with her if i start flirting with her or if i ask you to go to coffee with me that's it for the gym for that gym i am never gonna flirt with i am never gonna talk with any other woman at that gym because i i approached one woman at the gym and as soon as it's two women then all the women at that gym and definitely all the female employees at that gym they've all talked about you they have nothing better to talk about they're sitting around and they're in the change room and they're sitting with nothing to do in that gym all day then everyone knows you as the guy who's trying to get with every single girl at that gym even if it's only two girls and even if those two women maybe each one was special to you in a certain way maybe you really did have some particular connection with them or some particular interest in them like no so you know your reputation matters talent is scarce if you go to a university you can imagine sorry i used to study chinese at the university of victoria i don't i don't think i approached a single woman of any age the whole time i was on campus university honestly i do not think i flirted with or took out a date even one woman ever once okay but let's say there was a woman there i was interested in okay how many people are studying chinese it's a small program at a small university in a small town in canada right if it's just one woman i don't have a problem if i start approaching flirting with or dating just two women at the same university in the same program okay even if i have done nothing wrong even if there's nothing worth costing about you have no idea how much gossip you're gonna inspire and look i went through this i used to be an english teacher in the capital city of laos which is a city it's not a small town but it's a small city and the whole time i was there i only had one girlfriend everybody's talking about me as if i'm on the mac as if i've got like 20 girls going at the same time people make up stories it's unbelievable it's like wow yeah i had one girlfriend in five years in this city of like a million people but guess what you know like people's imaginations like look i can have integrity i can have personal integrity i can be committed to having telling the truth but i can't have integrity for you right like i get to choose what i'm gonna do i don't get to choose what the women in the gym say when they're gossiping about me or the women in the university program or the other people who are english teachers living abroad in southeast asia or something right people are going to take the story and and and run with it right so yeah you are taking a risk you're risking your embarrassment in more ways than one long term everybody everybody is a zero or 10 and to flip it around because i think this is 100 equal for men and women i've talked about this with melissa many times you know i really always had a lot of contempt for the women who wanted to start something with me and they just lacked the nerve they just lacked them and they you know they brought it up to that brink and they you know they and it's like what are you afraid of here you know look what what would it take for you to cross that line like if you don't have if you don't have the backbone to try to ask me out for coffee like if you don't have what it takes to do that if you don't have what it takes to initiate why would i want to be in a relationship with you why would i want to be a relationship with a weak willed spineless person if you're not strong enough to do this like what what kind of relationship is that going to be so i've i've always seen it as equal between the genders that way no matter how attractive a woman is you know it can be the prettiest thing on the beach doesn't mean i have one-half relationship doesn't even mean it doesn't mean i even want to have a conversation he doesn't mean i want to go for coffee you eat lunch with you once and if you if you want to do that with me if you want to take me out for a lunch date to figure out if we've got any common ground got something in common right you better have the nerve you better have the tenacity you better have the commitment because if you don't that reflects really badly in your character for all of the things of the future okay so that's a really simple binary scale everyone is a zero or a ten and if you live this way there are knock-on effects it's going to improve your life in all kinds of ways trivial and profound that you can't yet imagine getting rid of the comparative and competitive view of ranking people from 0-10 and now let's talk about the other scale let's talk about crazy all right craziness doesn't exist on a scale of one to ten okay it's either a zero or a ten okay when you lie down to sleep at night either you're afraid that the person you're sleeping with is going to stab you in your sleep or you are not i remember talking to this guy he was really proud that he just slept with this really attractive young woman he's telling me different things about it and i looked at him and we just had a conversation about going on a bus trip so i knew he had all this stuff with him for his bus trip and he's telling me that he's humble bragging i guess or just outright bragging about sleeping with girl and he's listening i said so when you went to the hotel with her did you take your passport and your wallet and hide it in a safe because like i know you i know you would be afraid that this girl would rob you in your sleep he was uh he was from chicago he said to me he said dude you have no idea i had to take my wallet and my passport and stuff it inside the pillowcase and then turn the pillow over so that it was right under my head and i slept the whole night with my face on my wall with my back so that i knew she wasn't gonna rob me while i was asleep wow man that's a hot chick yeah wow yeah she's really all right like when it comes to craziness either you trust someone or you do not right like and of course it goes way beyond the wallet that's in your pocket if if she just tells you something sometimes your boyfriend or girlfriend they tell you something that sounds crazy it tells you that it doesn't seem to make any sense they tell you something that's contradictory do you trust them or in that first moment are you like you're trying to manipulate me like prove to me you're not bullsh like you know what i mean do they have to overcome your skepticism like in that relationship because you regard them as crazy you regard them with suspicion are they someone you can really trust not just at the best of times not just when everything's going well under pressure under strain jet lag screaming babies uh unemployment but you know it's a lot harder to deal with in unemployment overemployment when your schedule's filled and you're run down and you can't take the time to think everything through and be the most sensitive you know muffin in the oven you know what i'm saying can you trust that person or are you living your life where you are afraid at any given time they are going to go crazy so the chart i come up with arithmetically and graphically is really simple when it comes to human attraction everyone is either a zero or a ten when it comes to sanity when it comes to reliability when it comes to someone being trustworthy or not when it comes to measuring how crazy someone is everyone is either a zero or a ten and that divides this chart into four equal parts you've got decisions to make you've got your work cut out for you my sling is editorial explicit material briefcase show live and stereo flow fill me