<p>To those of you who've read The Game or have a good knowledge and understanding of the pickup artist society, what do you all think about this PUA movement? </p>
<p>I'll give my thoughts on it later, although they can be pieced together from my posts on other threads.</p>
<p>maybe it works if the girl you're after isn't exactly an intellectual powerhouse..</p>
<p>From The Game:
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I'd heard it all before from dozens of guys. And I'd heard just as many intelligent women say, "That wouldn't work on me," when I told them about the community. Yet minutes or hours later, I'd see them exchanging phone numbers--or saliva--with one of the boys. The smarter a girl is, the better it works. Party girls with attention deficit disorder generally don't stick around to hear the routines. A more perceptive, worldly, or educated girl will listen and think, and soon find herself ensnared.
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<p>yeah, actually i could see how i could possibly go for something like that with the help of a few shots..not that i'm very discerning or caring at that point anyway..but at parties i really generally end up with guys who actually have something to say (minimal BS).</p>
<p>I don't really care about it. I understand the fundamentals (most of it is common sense and you'd have to be retarded to not already know it), but I want girls to be interested in me and not some fake persona that I create in order to seem interesting and try and get with them. But I don't see a problem with anyone else using the tactics.</p>
<p>Hooray for posting about pick-up artistry while we're all on this message board on saturday night.</p>
<p>Every night is like a saturday night to me - I'm unemployed and out of school. I wanted to go to bed a while ago (wimbledon final at 7 AM). But I have to forcefeed myself another meal.</p>
<p>I don't see a 'The Game for Women.' It's derogatory assuming that women can be solely picked up as if we're trophies. Completely repulsive especially as a woman.</p>
<p>Its because women dont have trouble askin guys out because they hardly ever do</p>
<p>I think the thing about PUA is that it takes the techniques that the "naturals", guys who are good with women, know and puts them in a methodical order or in a formula and makes them easier to follow.</p>
<p>i think it's funny that i had never heard of this before until i read about it on CC..</p>
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I don't see a 'The Game for Women.' It's derogatory assuming that women can be solely picked up as if we're trophies. Completely repulsive especially as a woman.
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<p>Aren't you late for a gender studies course or something?</p>
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I don't see a 'The Game for Women.' It's derogatory assuming that women can be solely picked up as if we're trophies. Completely repulsive especially as a woman.
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<p>There is a "The Game for Women." It's called looking pretty and being coy. </p>
<p>It's not a derogatory assumption if it's been empirically shown to work.</p>
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Aren't you late for a gender studies course or something?
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You don't need to be in a gender studies course to be a feminist. And, um, I rather not take one actually.</p>
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There is a "The Game for Women." It's called looking pretty and being coy. </p>
<p>It's not a derogatory assumption if it's been empirically shown to work.
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<p>Women don't consider picking up men in the same light that men do. They're not 'trophies.'</p>
<p>Actually, in a way, they are trophies. Women are very competitive with each other and most of them try to show up one another (maybe even subconsciously) with everything that they have. This includes boyfriends - validating themselves and showing off by having a good (sometimes the best) boyfriend. I read an interesting article on how much more peer opinion means to women than to men in picking partners.</p>
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Women don't consider picking up men in the same light that men do. They're not 'trophies.'
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<p>So instead of criticizing women for falling for such silly chicanery on a widespread basis, you're going to blame men?</p>
<p>These books on how to pick up women are all really lame in my opinion. Personally though, if you have to read a book to socialize with women then chances are you aren't sittin too good already.</p>
<p>Guys who cares. go get a girlfriend or something.</p>
<p>The game is laughable. By and for people who spend a lot more time thinking about how to get with women than actually being with them.</p>
<p>That was actually Neil Strauss's criticism of many of the other PUAs. They spent far more time strategizing and plotting than actually interacting with women.</p>