In the black-pill community the term “monkey branching”, i.e. the often-observed female behavior of only ending a relationship once the next sexual partner has been secured, was popularized a few years ago. This is a real phenomenon. It of course also often happens that women who only seemingly secured their next sexual partner end up “boomeranging”, i.e. returning to their previous partner, if he takes them back. These are good analogies and it is not obvious where they originate from. I was under the impression that the very creative term “monkey-branching” was the creation of a guy who used the name “turd-flinging monkey”, once one of the more prominent names back then who fell victim to relentless suppression on YouTube.

I recently watched Mission Impossible I and II. The first movie I watched in the cinema when it came out, the second one I do not think I have watched before. Both movies test your suspension of disbelief, but the second one even more than the first. They are entertaining, nothing more. However, I did perk up at the casual misogyny in the sequel, with statements directors and screenwriters would get teared and feathered today. Multiple pale, stale, males make questionable comments about female nature. The villain is obviously the worst in this regard. He has to because he is the villain. Among others, he says this:

You know women, mate. Like monkeys they are … won’t let go of one branch until they get a grip on the next.

Here is the clip:

The context is a shared sexual interest of the good guy and the bad guy. They both want to utilize the amatory skills of the female lead, which you also see in the clip above, and they both get to. Perhaps this quote was dismissed at the time, lingered on in the collective misogynist male psyche for years afterwards, and ended up resurfacing many more years later in the black-pill community. I do not recall this term having been used in the old PUA community at all, so it became popular only in the late 2010s. Perhaps this is the most lasting legacy of Mission Impossible II, an entertaining, yet utterly forgettable, movie.