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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: gjm 03 December 2014 01:07:04AM 3 points [-]

come around

Hasn't Ted Beale ("Vox Day") been an extreme patriarchal social conservative since for ever?

Comment author: MrMind 03 December 2014 08:06:00AM -2 points [-]

Neither Roosh, from the tone of his earlier "Bang X" guides, strikes me as particularly progressive.