I read him regularly and comment on his blog. But I have a few issues.
I find his writing convoluted and hard to read sometimes. I also think he's a bit too negative. And I also think he often recycles ideas F. Roger Devlin and Roissy pioneered and put across better.
The thing that bugs me is the constant downbeat tone. I can read even the most negative Roissy (now Heartiste) or Roosh posts and come away with the idea that even if the deck is stacked against guys, there's still a way you can charm your way into a woman's heart (or pants). Both writers leaven their more depressing observations with humor and a sense of impishness. In fact, sometimes the nastiest posts leave me laughing out loud.
But with Rollo, I don't get much that's positive. The impression is that to even be with a woman minimally it's all game all the time with no let up. I'll read his posts and often think "Well if it's that bad, maybe I should just sit home and watch old TV shows." And I know that's not realistic from looking around me and my own personal experiences.
His
"Hypergamy Doesn't Care..." post is a prime example. Granted it's a great idea, but it's executed with such heavy-handedness you feel like you're being berated more than helped. And again, there's nothing amusing you call pull out of it. The best protest writers (Bob Dylan, Billy Bragg) know to leaven their messages with something to make audiences grin and I think that applies to this type of writing as well.
I get this from Athol Kay's "Gaming Your Wife" too -- that marriage and relationships are non-stop work and psychological tactics. All of this, in its way, ends up seeming as paranoid and abnormal as some feminist ideas about men.
One thing the game crowd in general and Rollo in specific fail to get is that while hypergamy exists in the larger sense, it often will fly out the window when men and women bond because women are flawed too in their own ways.
I don't want to discourage anyone from buying his stuff, because I like the idea of men being able to make money from this community (esp. since feminism is such a cash cow). But I think that after absorbing his ideas everyone needs to realize there are other points of view out there as well and for every rule there are exceptions. And for every serious statement that makes a valid observation, there's a joke that makes just as good a point.
