Problem is, it's a negative loop. It may work short term, but it won't long term. Even if you entrap a woman who can't find a way to escape you if you turned out to be a poor mate, you won't have what you truly desire. She'll become passive aggressive and distant. You'll still be lonely.

The irony here that it seems men either just don't realize or blind themselves to, is that you need game because men decided to get manipulatively gamey out of some sense of getting even because women weren't pursuing them anymore. This all tracks back to post WWII, and the political push to increase and stabilize populations. Here in America, the war deaths were disproportionately men because other than Pearl Harbor and the Oregon Coast, the war wasn't being fought here. There were no civilian casualties to speak of in comparison to places where there was widespread military engagement. I imagine it was much the same in Britain in regards to the disproportionate deaths of men, though not as severe a discrepancy because of the night raid bombings. Improvemebts in healthcare also meant fewer women were dying in childbirth and pregnancy.

When you look at the rise of women's rights and men's responses to that you see a consistent similarity of response based on that country's circumstances during the war and how the population was skewed after.

Women started gaining civil rights but men had come to entitled beliefs they did not have prior to then. Go back to turn of the century and before, men DID believe they were superior and they were still all about control and domination, but they did NOT believe they were owed a wife, children, and a home no matter what by virtue of having a dick.

In fact, that negative bias against yourself you have stems from this era. But in you, it's a little warped and twisted to your detriment. You believe you have no value if you can't get a woman. This inherently means you have to want one, even if permanent relationships or partnering is not the best fit for you. Men of that time did not base their self worth on the acquisition of a woman in the same way and, more precisely, they felt that failing to keep one if you had one was the mark of your failure as a man. I'll refer you to Shakespeare's Sonnet 42 or 47 (one of those I can't remember which) for how long that idea had been floating around. Short answer, a really long time. There was a lot of focus around not bringing shame to the women who chose you. Granted, men still defined that and held all the power with rare exception, but this is where men's hearts and minds was at. Hopefully you can see what a difference that framing makes.

Obviously, PUA culture killed that dead. Now it's all about tricking and trapping women. Playing a part and then the old bait and switch. Whatever it takes is justified. Male sexuality is just predatory by nature, it's just basic biology, so you bitches better just deal. Choose better men. Don't hate the player, hate the game. And blah blah blah blah blah.

Pro tip. All prey animals go to great lengths to avoid predators.

Another pro tip. Predators wound prey. Yes, it's good for the predator in the short term. But eventually the prey run out and there aren't anymore. And that's not so good for the predator. There's a whole ecological predator/prey cycle that is very well established and very well known.

Apply those dynamics to human cultural relationships between the sexes, and it should be very clear that you'd get much of the same functions and dynamics.

And we did. It's easily observable. There's a hell of a lot of wounded women out there and has been for decades. Men are perceived as unsafe, because under this ideology, they are. You can't base your sexuality around ideas of romanticized predation and think the prey in that dynamic are going to lay down and die. The hell, gentlemen? Automatic trust is gone. An increasing number of us women cannot get away from you men far or fast enough. We want nothing to do with you. For those who still want to date, we have to approach you with extreme caution because you are inherently dangerous now because the culture of masculinity means you have to be alpha strong raging beasts (TM).

So now, it's like the population discrepancy has shifted again, only it's because women are choosing against partnering and that means there are fewer to go around to the men who think they have to secure a woman in order to be a valid man.

That means unless men change the culture of masculinity and ditch the entitlement they will escalate "game" which will wound and drive more women away, which will lead men to up the game again, which will.....and there's our negative loop. There's only two options for conclusion if men do not insert themselves as agents of change into the loop in a manner that breaks that negatively reinforcing loop, heals their own wounds, and leaves women alone to heal theirs.

Then and only then will we stop hurting each other.

I hope at this point, it becomes clear that there is no healthy, mutually beneficial way forward for men outside of NOT women.