"Men’s honesty becomes misogyny": Relationship Advice from the Late, Great Patrice O’Neal

“Live large. Die large. Leave a giant coffin.” — Dom Mazzetti.

Patrice O’Neal. The comics’ comic. Mainstay of the Comedy Cellar’s regulars. Contemporary of Kevin Hart, Bill Burr, Louis C.K., Nick DiPaolo, Colin Quinn, Joe Rogan, and Jim Norton (to name but a few). Frequent guest on The Opie & Anthony Show. Patron saint of the Manosphere. “The black Doctor Phil”. A man whose life’s work was thankfully digitised, because he passed away before writing his always promised, never materialised, compendium of relationship knowledge.

I’ve had my own troubles with relationships. It led me to repair the faults in my personality which led me to make self-destructive choices. I’ve interrogated hundreds of hours of content by Molyneux, Peterson, and the like. But most prolific of all was the late, great, Patrice O’Neal, whose criminally stopped-short ‘Black Phillip Show’ preached dignity, stoicism, and confidence to men subjugated by a sense of inadequacy and servitude. In an age of simping, porn addiction, and misandric divorce courts, Patrice’s immortalised words are a Gospel of masculinity (even in spite of his self-acknowledged non-Adonic appearance).

But why was so much (not all) of what Patrice said popular with men? In absence of a written summary of his philosophy, I’ll do my best to concisely comprise the unfiltered, often inflammatory philosophy of Patrice O’Neal, and relate it to the biological and cultural factors which determine axioms of relationships between Western men and women.