… or in biblical terms … pride, the curse of Lucifer, also Eve, also Adam.

I’ve seen nonRCs dismiss the seven deadly sins, simply because they’re perceived as RC … there are also the seven virtues … I’m not RC and yet I can’t see what’s wrong with the list … and the worst is pride (ego).

There’s obviously pride in one’s work, in achievement, in helping another person … all good … but when we see it taken to extremes, e.g. in Rachel from Accounts or in any WEFer, it’s offputting. Nor do we want to see a wet blanket beta, always bemoaning … the latter is particularly bad in an adult male.

Male pride of course is an eternal known-known and one reason it’s easier dealing with good women but when a woman goes all Dunning-Kruger, it’s quite sickening. Sometimes it’s more subtle in the early stages, but not in the final, as in Tatiana E-M:

Her early music, with Avalon Jazz Band, with more than one female, was good, e.g. Sunshine, though she was still the star, no one begrudged her that. Gradually the other females disappeared but her “loveliness” still carried the day.

Trouble was, the flattery, mixed with genuine praise, went to her head and now she’s dropped all pretense … one of the things which had been appealing … her slight demureness even in the bubbliness … now it’s become oh look how wonderful I am, surrounded by men arranged in such a way that they’re satellites behind her, adoring her.

At this point, I said goodbye. Nothing wrong with her fantasy, in itself, of being in the company of men … the converse also applies with us boys … the issue though is the word “adoring” … I for one would not want that as it’s embarrassing, uncomfortable, shallow. T.E-M seems not to know how to go about it.