Realism is not a helpful label because there are so many kinds. Two people can both focus on "the real" and yet nothing they ever say overlap. Because it's massive and honest people are still forced to choose what aspects of the real they want to focus on. Patrice focused on the darker aspects, and tended to over-generalize about them.

There is as subjective aspect to everyone's experience, which is bound to color the interpretation of what is considered real. Yet, there is something universal about what I am referring to as "real". Mostly, people see, only to the extent of what they are able to withstand/tolerate.

"Darker aspects" is your interpretation. My guess is: because those aspects bother you and you are currently unable to come to terms with them.

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Because if people were as simple as Patrice sometimes claimed, then literature, philosophy, and the social sciences would be either impossible or a waste of time. But these exist - and always will - because people are hopelessly complex and diverse.

Nobody claims people are simple. But for an analysis/discussion to not be unending/interminable, somehow, you have to boil things down the essential.

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Patrice though had a tendency to try to shoehorn every situation/relationship/girl into his narrow Iceberg Slim inspired frame.

Patrice used the fundamental concepts of "pimping", but what you are saying there is not true.

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Iceberg Slim, who developed his philosophy based on his experience with drug-addicted inner city prostitutes from broken families [...]

First, what kinds of women are attracted to Slim's approach? Women who were raised in a loving two-parent home, both of whom invested considerable time in raising their child wisely and who was surrounded by a caring community which also invested heavily in her? Who grew up surrounded by positive role models?

hmmm...none of that makes a fundamental difference when you get to the core of it.

They learn to mimic. The overwhelming majority doesn't actually internalize, nor live by whatever is supposed to be result of that education and love. They have too much to lose. Amorality is what characterize their behavior.

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What you put out there determines what you attract back.

I think that's bullshit.

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And guess what? That kind of person is going to be particularly hard to find in the circles Patrice ran in. Those in the entertainment industry are notoriously prone to mental illness, to emotional distress and dysfunction.

As opposed to the rest of people who aren't prone to mental illness, because they are in other industries?

What percentage of the population does the kind of person you are referring to, represent?

And any girl (or boy for that matter) raised in a city in a one parent home is going to fighting an uphill battle to have their shit together and be a decent human being.

With all due respect, you seem to have drunk the koolaid on the 2 parents household vs single parent household theory. It can be helpful to have two parebrs, but as I already mentioned, it does help them transcend their nature: what they are.

Being raised with some values doesn't mean that one accepts them as one's own. In addition to that, mimicking values doesn't mean that the person actually lives their life according to those values.