Dudes, this discussion is pretty awesome, and I figure I might as well weigh in on it.

The AWALT belief is technically untenable. There will always be someone, somewhere, who, in a real discussion, will be able to point to his or her grandmother, sister, aunt, what-have-you, and say: “Here is a NAWALT!”

You can’t disprove what he or she said, and you can’t possibly be present for a woman’s entire life to watch every detail just so you can find a moment when she slips up and say “Aha! AWALT!”

Besides, we must accept that no woman is perfect, just as no man is perfect, and that there are those rare women out there who will stay with their husbands through thick and thin because they love them, even when they have other options. Statistically, it is nearly impossible for there to be absolutely zero unicorns (as in a woman who treats her husband well, is respectful, doesn’t cheat, works to maintain herself, is generally pleasant to be around, and pulls her weight in a relationship) in the approximately 3,209,000,000 women who live on earth.

The truth is, though, that the NAWALT argument still doesn’t fly. Even if a full 50% of women were unicorns, it still doesn’t change the fact that I would still have at least a 10% chance of getting screwed over in a relationship, which is not even close to being worth it.

Men across the world need to understand that, in the vast majority of cases in developed countries, the only reason men get married is because they are thinking with their little head, or they have been brainwashed into it. According to the male-scarcity theory, it is generally only when women have no options other than men that they will be good wives en masse, so in poorer countries it is possible that there might be more unicorns, but I would call it likely that they are only so because they have no other option. It’s like Keymaster’s hand-grenade analogy. I don’t give a rip if not-all-women-are-like-that. It still isn’t worth it to have a relationship in the present environment if the entire system is so skewed against men.

Conclusion: AWALT works for the forums, but if you are ever in an intellectual discussion in the real world, ASSPOWALT will be much more suitable and will cover all your bases, plus no one will be able to disprove you.