It’s pathetic how many people watch these videos giving advice on how to fuck women. Like Jesus Christ chase, maybe don’t be a manipulative cunt and treat them like a fucking person. Oh and practice self care And self improvement. No that’s too hard. Why don’t I just prey upon women with low self esteem so I can trap them into a nightmare
its really bizarre. straight up psychopaths thinking women are machines and if you press the right buttons you get the nice reward for being a good monkey
I don't agree with the sentiment that videogames as a medium are inherently atomizing or inevitably lead to antisocial behavior, and in fact give great credit to videogames for helping me find and learn to appreciate the power and importance of community.
That said: it should almost go without saying at this point that the broader popular culture in film and television is dictated by a bunch of demonic sex criminals who literally couldn't depict a healthy functioning relationship if their lives depended on it. Videogame writers are, if anything, even worse. They have all the same trickle down toxic misconceptions from Hollywood and if romance is depicted in videogames at all its almost always done in exactly the way you describe it: push the right buttons in the right sequence and you beat the game and receive 1 sex. Worse yet: sex is essentially the end of that game.
If you're a young heavily alienated man who mostly engages with power fantasy style games and you're already primed to view other people as "NPCs", then PUA makes a ton of sense.
I don't think we're scheduled for a Free Will struggle session for at least another month.
I fell into this trap as a teenager 15 or so years ago because I wanted a girlfriend but I didn’t know how to get one. I suspect that this is because my parents were working all the time and couldn’t provide any guidance. The PUA shit doesn’t work. What does work is exercising, reading actual books, and developing some sort of hobby you can be proud of, but these are all privileges unavailable to people who have been deprived of a certain level of material resources. (Also, people trying to date during a plague: you have my deepest sympathies.)
Sorry no can do duderino. I only had one ability point left to put towards Cha after maxing out my Int, bro. I am very smart.
No, I must fuck as many women as possible and have the worst orgasms of my life because otherwise that would invalidate my conception about how I'm an alpha
I think it was a CollegeHumor video where I first heard the phrase "reinventing yourself into a douchebag" and it hit a little close to home.
I’m the absolute worst and somehow I’ve gotten multiple sexual/romantic partners over the years. It’s really not hard.
(Keeping them from leaving your ass after a year or so is the hard part ha....ha.......)
Not to mention, the whole concept of being "alpha" is just so dumb. It's not actually based on nature or whatever. And anyway, you know's "alpha"? Trump is. He's certainly able to exert his will over other people. I'm sure it's helped him get with certain women and make money. But he's also the most miserable, pathetic person on the planet and I wouldn't trade places with him for a billion dollars. That's the thing, being "alpha" might "work" in a very narrow sense, and it turns you into an awful person.
Counterpoint: PUA materials helped me get over crippling shyness (that was making me push away even girls who were blatantly showing interest in me) and become fun and charming on dates. It's not magic and anyone saying "if you follow instructions 1 to 10 you'll fuck any girl you want" is a scammer but in particularly hopeless cases it can provide a sort of scaffolding for getting used to being daring and sociable. At the end of the day it's mostly about the so-called "inner game" than any kind of manipulation of others.
Some people might get something out of it. However, these people would probably have benefited from something less toxic as well.
PUA has a lot of draw from insecure people. For one, they are assured that it's not ones personality that might be the problem. The women are wrong (Skinner style). Secondly, PUA make some assumptions about the world that seem nice if you don't think critically. After all, wolves have alphas... (Nooot) . Thirdly, toxic masculinity brings a lot of problems for men looking for a partner. PUA pretend to have the answer to this but are actually doing the exact same opposite.
Tldr: Misogyny is shit for boys with an inferiority complex. But perpetuated by western culture, so people easily fall for it.
