Stop being the Intellectual Whore!!

Sally: We are just going to be friends, OK?
Harry: Great, friends. It's the best thing...You realize, of course, that we can never be friends.
Sally: Why not?
Harry: What I'm saying is - and this is not a come-on in any way, shape, or form - is that men and women can't be friends, because the sex part always gets in the way.
Sally: That's not true. I have a number of men friends and there is no sex involved.
Harry: No, you don't.
Sally: Yes, I do.
Harry: No, you don't.
Sally: Yes, I do.
Harry: You only think you do.
Sally: You're saying I'm having sex with these men without my knowledge?
Harry: No, what I'm saying is they all want to have sex with you.
Sally: They do not.
Harry: Do too.
Sally: They do not.
Harry: Do too.
Sally: How do you know?
Harry: Because no man can be friends with a woman that he finds attractive. He always wants to have sex with her.
Sally: So you're saying that a man can be friends with a woman he finds unattractive.
Harry: No, you pretty much want to nail them, too.
Sally: What if they don't want to have sex with you?
Harry: Doesn't matter, because the sex thing is already out there, so the friendship is ultimately doomed, and that is the end of the story.

When a man meets a woman, the first thing that pops into his mind, be it consciously or subconsciously, is "What are the possibilities of me having sex with this woman?"

When a woman meets a man, the first thing that pops into her mind, be it consciously or subconsciously, is "Is this guy someone I'd want to have sex with, or is he good to just be friends with?" Unlike the man, women have a "bi-ladderal" system, or two ladders. One is the Good Ladder, on which all men she would like to have sex with are on, much like the man's ladder. The other ladder is the Friends Ladder, a ranking of all the guys she knows and likes as a friend, but would never have sex with. Ever. At the bottom of and between both ladders is the abyss, which if a man tries to make a ladder jump from the Friends Ladder to the Good Ladder and fails, he will likely fall into, since once a woman has a male friend who suddenly tells her he wants her, things tend to go awry quickly and they split, or the man becomes unhappy and leaves her life, via a NEXT.

According to Ladder Theory, men are attracted to a woman 60% based on looks, 30% on how easily he sleep with her, and 10% to other factors. Likewise, women are attracted to men 50% based on the man's wealth or power status, 40% on attraction (which further breaks down into subcategories, the largest of which is looks), and 10% on other factors.

One of the major tenets of Ladder Theory is the relationship known as the Intellectual Whore/Intellectual Pimp dynamic. This can also be equated with "nice guys", and should be a common observance. A man who is too "nice" and unwilling to show his dominant, sex-hungry side, will instead approach a lady as non-chalant and unthreateningly as possible, attempting to have a friendship with her to prove that he can be trusted first. This is all done with the hidden agenda of eventually confessing his feelings to her and attempting to have sex with her. This also typically involves the man buying her gifts, giving her rides to places, voluntarily taking the short end of the stick at every occasion, and basically being a doormat, in order to prove that he is "a good guy," but generally it translates to the woman as "weak." Then when he eventually comes forward with his feelings towards her, known as a ladder jump, it typically takes the woman by surprise and she rejects his offer. It is termed a ladder jump because usually the man tries to work his way up her Friends Ladder first, and from the top of the ladder, tries to "jump" across to her Good Ladder. But as stated earlier, by this point he has likely been seen as weak and a doormat, not to mention if there was any sexual tension in their first encounter, it's likely worn off by the time the ladder jump comes around. What typically happens next is that the IW will hold on to their friendship, since it's all he has - which is settling for less in his mind - and he typically rises back up to the top of the IP's Friends Ladder, and then stays there, delusionally content, and/or waiting for his next opportunity to try another Ladder Jump.

The man, in this scenario is known as an intellectual whore, or "IW". An intellectual whore is a man who readily pays a woman with his emotional support so that he may receive physical returns, which again, is hardly ever successful.

The woman in this scenario is referred to as an intellectual pimp, but in most cases, the woman is not aware that she is the man's intellectual pimp, or "IP". This is due to the man's concealing of his true desires with her. There are cases of course, where the woman realizes exactly what's going on from the beginning, and chooses to abuse her power as an IP, and this woman is known as a ninja bitch, or "NB".

The Solution

Most IPs will spend their time talking and being friends with the IW, while he receives no physical return from her, besides perhaps being the occasional cuddle bitch, while she runs off to have her sex with an Outlaw Biker or "OB" instead, and then vent her frustrations over him to the IW. She will have sex with this OB repeatedly, and then always air her stories and frustrations over his emotional distance to the IW. The IW will typically respond with, "well he's a jerk," "you deserve someone better," and likewise supplicating statements.

Ladder Theory purports that to avoid IWism and to begin attracting women in an effective manner, one must avoid falling into the IW/IP trap by avoiding supplication, acting disinterested in women he is actually interested in, becoming an OB, or getting rich.

--Source: Ladder Wiki and a chain email amongst friends.
Also see this hilarious strip:

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