> "Well, I have 2 things that are gone. I still get attention"

I think you still have the "pretty" thing, for your age at least :-)

Of course you still get attention (it's stunning how the "#3 thing" sometimes is enough ;-), but I think the attention you get is unlike the "almost absolute power over men" the OP was talking about.

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It's a bit like the Red Pill concept of "the wall":

- It doesn't mean a woman over "the wall" loses all of her attraction value (that would be silly).

- It means that before "the wall" she could get almost any man (for a while, at least); but when she's over "the wall", her attraction value (i.e. her "power") goes down significantly over time (although not vanishing altogether).

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Again, agreed with the confidence thing. :-)