THE STRANGE CASE OF 'PSEUDO ROMEO'

This passage is taken from Andy Nowicki's newly-published Ruminations of a Low-Status Male, Volume 3: On Being Unwanted, now available on Kindle and in paperback.

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There is a certain boy I remember from my youth. 

As an adolescent, he was a slight, gawky lad with a wide mouth and incongruously beady eyes.  Unfortunate-looking though he was, he wasn’t of a resentful frame of mind; nothing in him seemed inclined towards viewing life in such a light; instead, quite oblivious to his miserable social state, or in any case utterly unmindful thereof, he relentlessly projected an attitude of thoroughgoing optimism; what was more, he was an inveterate and rather pesky romantic, much  after the fashion of Looney Toons mainstay “Pepe Le Pew.” 

MERRY LOW-STATUS X-MAS!

Andy Nowicki—author of Ruminations of a Low-Status Male, Volume 1: Status-Lust and Self-Loathing and Ruminations of a Low-Status Male, Volume 2: Celibacy and Hypergamy, as well as the as-yet unfinished Ruminations of Low-Status Male, Volume 3—shares some candid thoughts about how nature and culture combine to humiliate the low-status male (LSM)...and what the LSM can do on his own behalf to counteract this double-fisted effect.

"ABOUT THE AUTHOR"

The following passage is taken from Andy Nowicki's new collection of essays, Ruminations of a Low-Status Male, Volume 1, now available for a low low price from on Kindle and in paperback.

by Andy Nowicki

I am not a successful man.

I don’t say this because I’m eagerly soliciting assurances to the contrary. I’m not courting your flattery. I’m merely reflecting upon an observable fact.

As always, refuge can be found in semantics. Yes, the question of what constitutes “success” is of course contingent upon how one defines the term. And yes, there are less successful men in the world than me. But I don’t claim to be below all others; I merely, and quite rightly, declare myself to fall well short of the “success” bar.

THE PRINCESS AND HER TWO SUITORS: A FABLE

The following magical tale is an excerpt from Andy Nowicki's upcoming collection of new and old material, Low Status Male.

by Andy Nowicki

A beautiful princess of a vast and wealthy kingdom had two handsome suitors vying for her hand in marriage. She decided to test them, to see which one was best qualified to become her husband. She took the first into her castle and informed him, "To prove yourself worthy of me, you must perform various difficult and life-threatening tasks."