zero_call comments on More art, less stink: Taking the PU out of PUA - Less Wrong

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Comment author: zero_call 10 September 2010 04:15:56PM 2 points [-]

The whole "happiness limited by shyness/social awkwardness which results in no dates" stereotype does not apply to many people here.

How's that?

Comment author: Violet 11 September 2010 06:29:17AM 3 points [-]

Because some people are in happy long term relationships, where picking new people up or dating new people are not very important.

Comment author: XFrequentist 11 September 2010 05:32:30PM 0 points [-]

There was a poll a while back, I seem to recall that most LWers were single males in their twenties.

There may have been a demographic shift since.

Comment author: steven0461 11 September 2010 05:36:05PM 2 points [-]

I think Violet meant "there are many people to whom it doesn't apply', not "there are not many people to whom it applies".

Comment author: mattnewport 11 September 2010 05:41:09PM 0 points [-]

I was having trouble figuring out which of those two parsings was the intended one.

Comment author: Violet 12 September 2010 08:23:31AM * 2 points [-]

"there are many people to whom it doesn't apply".

Sorry for the confusion, english is not my first language so sometimes my sentence structures will be confusing.

If the site takes an implicit almost-every-of-us-is-a-single-het-man then it will probably self-select into that direction.

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