Window Corollary
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The Window Corollary is a corollary to the Ladder Theory proposed by Billydee.
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This post is long but fairly straight-forward. Most veterans will not learn anything new, but it should be very useful for newbies.
The Ladder Theory is highly accurate. However, a woman decides almost INSTANTLY whether you are on her good ladder or her friends ladder. But being on the good ladder, or even high up on the good ladder, is not good enough. To seal the deal with a woman, you must:
1) Get on the good ladder.
2) Climb through her window at the appropriate time.
Unfortunately an open window is almost ALWAYS communicated non-verbally, and trying to figure out if/when the window is open is what 30% of the posts on this discussion board are about.
The picture below is of the good ladder. Imagine you are on the good ladder, but the hole the ladder goes through has a glass window covering it. Even if you are on the good ladder, you must climb higher to commence fucking ONLY when the window is open. If you try to climb too soon or too late, you smash your head and face into glass, get all bloody and shit, and likely fall off the ladder into the Abyss. Or even worse yet, over to the friends ladder. If you insist on continuing through a closed window, that is called rape, you sicko. You will likely end up in prison where you belong, and will be getting plenty of action, but not from people resembling anything like Kiera Knightly or the Olsen twins.
Be careful because the friends ladder can sometimes have a similar looking window, but unfortunately, it only leads to cuddle-bitchdom (see below). Average guys do not realize this, so that's what the other 50% of posts on this discussion are about. The remaining 20% of posts are just random fun b.s. among friends and alpha-male posturing by people who only have the balls to do it from the safety of their dorm rooms or apartments.
The crucial open widow period starts and ends with two time points:
1) It OPENS as soon as enough time has passed so that if you hook up with her, she won't feel like a total slut (or she figures out you're not an axe-murderer). This is where alcohol can come in handy.
2) It CLOSES when too much time has passed without you making a move, thereby giving her the impression that you are a "nice guy," a supplicating bitch, an asexual clueless loser, etc.. When women say they like a guy, "who has confidence," or, "who takes initiative," they mean they like guys who can go through her open window with great skill (smooth & quick, with no stumbling through it, etc.). "Getting lucky," is code word for a guy accidently climbing through an open window without realizing it.
If you aren't perceptive enough to pick up on her signals to get through the window, you probably aren't perceptive enough to give her what she wants in bed or in a relationship. It takes all the fun out of it for them when they have to constantly ASK for it instead of having it given to them. I know this is illogical, but this is how women think. I don't make the rules...I'm just writing them down so the average guy can know what he's dealing with.
The window can also close prematurely if there is another guy on her good ladder who successfully climbs through his open window before you climb through your open window. Depending on the woman, this can even happen if you are higher on the good ladder than he is. In this scenario, the woman has basically opened 2 or 3 windows at once, and told herself that whoever is the 1st one to climb through is the winner, regardless of relative placement on the ladder. This is most common when a woman that has a low self esteem, is particularly horny, or is drunk. Otherwise, most women will keep multiple guys on the good ladder, but only allow one window to open at a time, starting with the highest guy on the ladder and working her way down until somebody has the balls to climb though their open window. A woman who pretends to have 2 or 3 windows open at once but really doesn't is an attention whore.
The open and closing times can differ radically, depending on the woman depending on the particular guy. If you have a large ladder disparity in your favor, the window will open sooner, and the window will remain open for a longer period of time. Essentially, she's secretly rooting for you and wants to give you every chance to succeed. Don't dissapoint her. If you have a prudish, shy girl, or possibly one already in a relationship, the window will be slow to open. If the girl is fickle or in high demand, the window will open and shut very rapidly.
Generally, the hotter the woman, the more difficult it is to climb through her window. This is why many average guys don't even TRY to shoot for the super-hot women. They just assume they're not on the good ladder, or they don't think they have the skills to climb through an incredibly difficult window even in the rare event that they ARE on the good ladder. This is also why it's less satisfying when you seal the deal with a woman who was all over you, even if she was hot. In the back of your mind, you're thinking to yourself, "That window was way too easy to climb through, given how hot she is. There's probably something wrong with her."
Some women intrinsically know this, and try to use it to their advantage. Often times, they are very average looking women who purposefully give the impression that their window is difficult to climb through. They think that by presenting difficult windows (i.e. being a bitch, being flaky, playing hard to get, being high maintenance, etc.), it will somehow fool guys into thinking that she is hotter than she really is. This phenomenon is most common when there is little competition from other average or good-looking women, such as rural towns, engineering colleges, top ranked law & medical schools, and military bases. She is relying on our male competitive instinct and is playing the guys off of each other so she can get an unnaturally high quality dude. Do not fall for this ploy. It is better to look for women elsewhere than to settle for that level of bitchiness in somebody who isn’t that hot anyways.
Most guys fall into IWdom because they fool themselves into thinking they are on the good ladder, and the window just hasn't opened yet. In reality, they were either always on the friends ladder, or they missed their window opportunity, and have been relegated to the friends ladder. Some women try to intentionally disguise the "false window" on the friends ladder (that leads only to cuddlebitchdom) to look like the real window on the good ladder. This is a classic ninja bitch at work.
EDIT/UPDATE as of 5/17/06: My theory is that about 70% of IWs were at one point actually on the good ladder of their IP. It's just that he was too naive, whimpy, IWish, etc. to either recognize or have the balls to climb through her open window offer. So, they labeled him, "asexual/whimp" in the back of her mind and kicked him off to the friends ladder instead. Once his status has been determined, it is very difficult to change the status again. The other 30% of IWs are unfortunately falling victim to the ninja-bitch/attention-whore, and were never on the good ladder and were simply targeted because of their naive, foolish/gullible, or pliable demeanor.
So basically, there are three ways you can improve your game.
1) Improve yourself physically and money/power wise
This will get you put on the good ladder of more women. This will also have the indirect effect of creating larger ladder disparities for with women who would put you on their good ladder normally. This means that some women will keep their windows open for a longer period of time, making them easier to climb through.
2) Improve your skills of perception so you KNOW when windows are open to you.
Here, you avoid making an ass or yourself trying to smash through a permanently shut window (friends ladder), or trying to smash through too early or late. Sometimes if you try to go through the window prematurely you'll get a 2nd chance. This is why you want to ask a girl out in a way that can save face for a 2nd attempt. Success is rare, but it can happen. However, once a window is shut after it was open for a little while, it rarely re-opens. So even being aware that a window has open and shut will help you move on, thereby avoiding being an IW. Hence, the NEXTING advice you see all over this forum.
3) Improve your confidence so that when you DO see a window that is open, you don't FREEZE.
Here, you take those extra ladder steps up through the open window, into the triumphant moment of actually sealing-the-deal within the proper timeframe that was given to you by the woman.
Assuming you're not a nerdy Jabba The Hut on welfare, I suggest focusing more on categories #2 and #3. This is because you aren't trying to change the minds of women. You're just getting better at recognizing and capitalizing on women who already have you on their good ladder. Regardless, you need to find out which of the 3 categories you're weakest in, and work on it. Then pick the next weakest category and improve that. Repeat as necessary.
Alot of being a "player" has mostly to do with superior perception (area #s 2 and 3). Often times, when you think some player pulled out a miracle, it's just that he was perceptive enough to SEE that a window was open in the first place. How many times have you gotten the, "Oh, I used to have such a crush on you like, 3 years ago...." and you got pissed because you never knew it? This rarely happens to guys who've got game.
A player not only knows WHEN a window was open, but also HAS THE BALLS to actually go through it. This is because he is confident in his perception that the window is indeed open, even if it was open just for a brief period of time. You see this on weekend ski trips, spring breaks, etc., when you go with a group of friends but never hook up with women who you encounter because the “nice guy” in you didn’t “feel right” about hooking up with a chick you just met. Do not fool yourself, you didn’t refrain from hooking up because of some moral feelings she might have. If she had problems with hooking up right away, she wouldn’t have opened her window for you. What really happened instead is that you chickened out and froze when you saw that the window was open to you. This never happens with a guy who has game.
In the case of Outlaw Bikers, they just don't CARE if a window is open or not because they are used to the pain of glass shards. Because they are OB's they get put on alot of good ladders, but they aren't slick enough to even be aware of the window that is in front of them. They just smash their head into glass windows all the time and if it doesn't work, they move on. Since they do it often enough, they (more frequently than the average guy) "get lucky" that a window just happens to be open for them when they clumsily try to climb through every woman's window in sight.
