Do Men Suffer from "Peter Pan" Syndrome?

[Ranger OneParticipant 16836]

Faust For Science wrote:

From personal experience, those whom falsely accuse me of acting like a child are emotionally immature to the point of having the emotional maturity of a teenager all the way to a child.

These emotionally immature people lack the ability to understand complex emotional situations and they do not realize what they do is wrong.

I have as little to do with these people for the sake of my own sanity.

Walking away is not the act of a child, but of an adult.

I believe Spock said it best on the Star Trek episode “Shore Leave” when he said “The more complex the mind, the greater the need for the simplicity of play”.

So naturally, women will criticize men playing video games, since they do not understand this simple fact. (Nor typically possess the sort of complex mind that would need the simplicity of play)

All my life I've had doubts about who I am, where I belonged. Now I'm like the arrow that springs from the bow. No hesitation, no doubts. The path is clear. And what are you? Alive. Everything else is negotiable. Women have rights; men have responsibilities; MGTOW have freedom. Marriage is for chumps. If someone stands in the way of true justice, you simply walk up behind them and stab them in the heart-R'as al Ghul.

[Cap285Participant 6007]

Hmmm not sure…..

Bye ‘ladies’. Now go work that overtime.

Fuck this planet.

[GrumpyParticipant]

Meh

I dont “suffer” through “Peter Pan Syndrome” and never have, nor have I not personally EARNED or provided for others since I was 16.

I actually quite revel in “playing” at life thank you very much.
Happily for me, I have always been able to enjoy a lot about what ever I did for employment and avoided the “Bitchy Betty’s” (men and women) who found no joy in their jobs.

I loved “playing” at being a professional Soldier (17-41) until I was invalided out due to accumulative injuries.
In the opinion of others I sadly only earned just under $1.2 Million, to others that was too much for sacrificing my body, freedom, and ability to maintain personal relationships.
I now collect a minor medical pension for that, disregard paying into it for just over 24 years.
But hey, that was the cost of not growing up I suppose.

I thoroughly enjoyed “playing” at driving tractor trailers for 2 years after retiring, until it started to aggravate my leg injuries too much. Long hours and hard work and “only” earning about $180k for that time.
But hey, again that was the cost of not growing up I suppose.

When I moved into the warehousing industry I also enjoyed “playing” at that for 8 years, right up until it exacerbated all my injuries and a “manager” tried to tell me how to do my job (as well as breaking several OH&S regulations) and hobbled my old disabled ass out of the “work force” all together, after only earning $360k.
But hey, that was just more of the cost of not growing up I suppose.

During the total 52 years of my life so far, I mostly “played” at life and EARNED everything I had/ have/had taken away, and walked away from.
During which I managed to “play” at getting a degree in Microcomputer and Micro-technology, upgrading my education, EARNING several diplomas in several field that allowed me to work pretty much anywhere I desired.
I “played” at being married and divorced twice, raising a child alone without any support, being a husband/father/provider, and a contributing member of a society which utterly disdains me solely due to my gender.
Yet I am no one or nothing special, just another Peter Pan flittering along in life?
But hey, that was just the cost of ME not growing up I suppose.

So, if someone who might hold a degree in “women’s studies”, cosmetology, journalism, or some other questionable soft science, opines that if I decide to play a video game, read a book, waste time perusing the internet, go hunting/fishing/camping, travel across North America, spend my money as I desire, not marry or support another woman in my life, I am somehow immature and “suffering from Peter Pan Syndrome, and not growing up”. I would playfully ask them to lick my starfish and would probably enjoy the results.

There was a time in my life when I gave a fuck. Now you have to pay ME for it

[Faust For ScienceParticipant 22521]

Ranger One wrote:

I believe Spock said it best on the Star Trek episode “Shore Leave” when he said “The more complex the mind, the greater the need for the simplicity of play”.

I can see the logic in such a point of view.

Ranger One wrote:

So naturally, women will criticize men playing video games, since they do not understand this simple fact. (Nor typically possess the sort of complex mind that would need the simplicity of play)

Most emotionally immature people refuse to acknowledge the obvious.

[Anonymous 3]

Ranger One wrote:

The way I see it, a lot of boys instinctually don’t like girls, then get some pussy and decide that girls are great.

The truth of the matter is, that you don’t like females any more than when you were a boy, you like the pussy, and you confuse liking pussy with liking women.

narwhal wrote:

It’s just another way of shaming men.

Twist wrote:

I think its because modern video games require concentration. Concentration that takes away from the attention that could be paid to a woman.

this is a great thread. Why do all of us agree about what women are up to? because it is the way they are. this is what I see as the great truth of mgtow & I cant tell you how grateful I am for it. ( Can a thousand frenchmen be wrong?) I am an old guy,but the drive is still there. I have been force fed too many red pills to pay too much attention to it anymore. Frankly, I learned the hard way. the point I am trying to make is the drive is still there!! I really cant add anything, it seems much has been covered here. just one quick observation: if your talking with a woman & you glance at another women’s ass as she passes by, you suddenly become, in my case, ” a dirty old man ” So take your pick in The Shame Game… Peter Pan, a pig, a dog or a dirty old man its all for the same reason on their part, to take your power away. F~~~ THAT!! MGTOW

[Eric LauderParticipant 12043]

Carnage wrote:

Women think men hate them, the truth is we loved them, then we learned how they work and now we are scared as f~~~.

I’m actually having a lot of fun, quite the opposite of being scared.
Red pill contains a lot of wisdom and truth: so much that even my 12 yo daughter accept the basic concepts and she applies it while judging adult women. Being female, she have, and she always will have, a NAWALT approach. But NAWALT is just an illusion: my daughter admit that her mother, both the female cousins of her mother, and the mother of her friend, are AWALT…seems a little too much for being exceptions…
Just today my daughter thanked me for not having a partner, because, according my daughter: “that would mean less money for me and my brother when we’ll need it for our studies”. That’s VERY telling – and here we’re used to say that children are the voice of the truth…

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[FrostByteParticipant 19005]

Having Peter Pan syndrome means that you are playful. You enjoy simple fun. You have your own island and everything you own belongs to you. The lost boys are your buddies and they would die for you. Your feel free as if you are flying. You are filled with happy thoughts. Life is an adventure. You are a leader. You can bring Indian tribes, mermaids and lost boys together in peace. You’re not afraid of a fight. You are heroic and face your enemies head on. You have sense of humor.

What about her

She is a Tinkerbell. Disloyal. Sells you out to your enemies. Always Jealous. Small. Throws tantrums. Pouts when she can’t get her way. Flys in erratic patterns. P~~~es her dust all over the place. Causes chaos. Disrupts the peace. Plays people against each other. Must be locked up to be controlled. She is sour and disgruntled. Vindictive. A true AWALT.

Apparently, who ever coined the phrase never bothered to read the book or watch the movie. Being like Peter Pan is a compliment.

If you rescue a damsel in distress, all you will get is a distressed damsel.

[Anonymous 6]

I’ve heard a theory that Peter Pan was actually a bad guy and Captain Hook was the good guy who managed to get away. Peter Pan was a bad guy who was young because he was stealing the youth from everybody on the island. Hook managed to get away.

[Anonymous 2]

“Peter Pan Syndrome” – A shaming tactic used by women and the media as an explanation as to why men are not willing to pony up to the table and play the rigged game known as “marriage”, where women hold all the cards.

The media refuses to tell the truth on why men won’t marry because that would go against its gynocentric agenda. And heaven knows women would NEVER take any accountability for this situation! If the media ever did try to tell the truth, the feminists would be bombarding them with accusations of misogyny. Go ask men why they won’t marry, and you’ll hear things like:

“I watched my father/brother/uncle get raked over the coals in divorce court and told myself I wouldn’t end up that way.”

“My family member/friend was being kept from his child by his ex, and the courts did nothing, so he ended up committing suicide.”

“I don’t want to end up shelling out half my check in child support and alimony and being treated as nothing but a walking ATM machine in the life of my child.”

“So many guys are getting falsely accused of rape that relationships aren’t even worth the hassle. Just making casual conversation with a woman nowadays will likely get the cops called on you. Plus, a woman can have consensual sex with me, then decide the next morning that she now regrets it and file rape charges against me. It’s not worth risking my freedom for pussy.”

Yeah, you’ll never hear THESE quotes in the news, no matter that they’re honest opinions of men expressed over and over again. Like I said, it doesn’t serve the media’s gynocentric agenda, so truth be damned!

[FrostByteParticipant 19005]

Anonymous wrote:

I’ve heard a theory that Peter Pan was actually a bad guy and Captain Hook was the good guy who managed to get away. Peter Pan was a bad guy who was young because he was stealing the youth from everybody on the island. Hook managed to get away.

That is the version the series “Once Upon a Time Used” he stole people’s shadow and that kept him young.

If you rescue a damsel in distress, all you will get is a distressed damsel.

[GnosticParticipant 2491]

They are trying to paint survival instinct and cost benefit analysis as a bad thing.

There is no magic in MGTOW, just recognition of the truth and logical decision how to avoid dangers. The red pill is but the truth, it is no magical potion. Do not think in this modern world men have no longer have natural enemies, men are prey to women and government.

[Anonymous 42]

I OWE PETER PAN MY LIFE!

He taught me how to fly with and without wings!

Instead I could be harnessed to the plantation millstone and spending my entire life walking in circles grinding corn and wheat!

[Anonymous 6]

FrostByte wrote:

Venom wrote:

I’ve heard a theory that Peter Pan was actually a bad guy and Captain Hook was the good guy who managed to get away. Peter Pan was a bad guy who was young because he was stealing the youth from everybody on the island. Hook managed to get away.

That is the version the series “Once Upon a Time Used” he stole people’s shadow and that kept him young.

That’s a way more interesting story in my opinion.

[black_knightParticipant 2602]

MGTOW Knight wrote:

I recently had the later happen to me, she chose the ex-Chad who was way worse off than me by every metric. Even her friends were like wtf is wrong with, girl?

I’m gonna take a fairly certain guess that those same friends then hardly rushed at the golden opportunity in front of them, preferring instead to pass you up for the tattooed badboy with the c~~~sure smile.

[foghornleghornParticipant 3449]

If enjoying my life and having the freedom to do whatever the f~~~ I want when I want and how I want makes me a child then so be it.

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