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Comment author: wedrifid 11 April 2013 04:14:17AM 7 points [-]

In general a PUA should always make a woman feel good, otherwise why should she choose to stay with him?

Human mating interests are not aligned perfectly with the happiness goals of the gene carriers in question. (It so happens that creating mostly positive affect in interactions is usually optimal, but this isn't entirely consistent and certainly isn't an inevitable first principle.)