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Comment author: advancedatheist 02 December 2014 03:11:16PM *  -2 points [-]

The PUA blogger Roosh Valizadeh explains his:

Cultural Collapse Theory: The 7 Steps That Lead To A Complete Culture Decline

http://www.returnofkings.com/49185/cultural-collapse-theory-the-7-steps-that-lead-to-a-complete-culture-decline

Apparently a French talkshow host has found readers for his similar analysis of the situation in France:

French Curtains

http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/french-curtains_820204.html?nopager=1#

I find it fascinating that men who claim to have become skillful as PUA's, like Roosh, Heartiste and Vox Day, have come around to seeing the wisdom of patriarchal social conservatism. After exploring the dysfunctional world of female sexual freedom, they realize that our allegedly unenlightened forefathers had good reasons for keeping women under male authority.

Comment author: bogus 03 December 2014 12:34:01AM -1 points [-]

Roosh, Heartiste and Vox Day have come around to seeing the wisdom of patriarchal social conservatism.

These folks are not representative of pickup, though. Many people involved in pickup are quite apolitical, and others could even be described as left-wing, at least in a very broad sense drawing on Jonathan Haidt's work on moral foundations.