Comment on LW Women Submissions: On Misogyny

Sat, 13 Apr 2013 04:14:59 GMT

Disclaimer: My knowledge of PUA comes mostly from third party accounts. I've rarely read their own material or seen a self-described PUA in action, and I've never tried to implement their techniques myself, so my views on PUA might be inaccurate.

I'm under the impression that both advocates and critics tend to exagerate PUA:

I mean, if you are a normally attractive, or maybe even a slightly lower-than-average attractive man, and you go to clubs where sexually available women go searching for mates, and you approach a lot of these women, then provided you don't do something terribly stupid or awkward, you have good chances of getting laid.
Practice will further increase your chances, but I suppose it's mostly a matter of learning how to quickly filter out unresponsive women and move to the next target, rather than applying some arcane forbidden mind control tricks.

I'm inclined to believe that most of the controversial stuff like "negging" or NLP is likely overrated, at least until proven effective by proper scientific evidence.
Sure, there may be lots of guys using them and getting laid, so they may genuinely believe that they've mastered the dark arts of mind manipulation, while in fact the women they score might be clearly seeing through their tactics and choose to go along with them because, hey, these women want to have sex!

Similarly, those who criticize PUA on the grounds that it's dishonestly manipulative might be underestimating the decisonal autonomy of the women that choose to sleep with these men.

I suppose there are also extreme cases of men who clearly break social rules and even laws in order to have sex, such as targeting severely intoxicated or mentally disabled women, or completely misrepresenting themselves to the point of legal fraud and identity theft, but I assume that these sociopathic behaviors are not typical of most PUAs.

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