Excerpt from a recent editorial from Askmen.com.
The recent trend toward men with androgynous characteristics may be due to women’s subconscious rejection of the previously celebrated alpha males. Some PUAs already wear the Adam Lambert-manliner. Is the next logical step to blend more feminine attributes into their alpha to make it more easily digestible? Or possibly the same techniques may appear fresh again if presented in a bumbling Seth Rogen-esque manner? The bromantic comedy boom could inspire a new wave of PUAs that look like AFCs. You could be a Trojan Horse of seduction. The woman thinks she’s gotten the gift of a new unintimidating male friend when suddenly a secret chamber bursts open and from it pours sublime seduction skills. Before she knows it, she’s Katherine Heigl in Knocked Up (hopefully without the pregnancy part).
Can you predict the next generation of PUAs and their new bag of tricks? Or do you think the era described in The Game is still in full effect?
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The “PUAs” described in “The Game’ NEVER REALLY EXISTED. What’s changed is that the “community” no longer has cartel-like control over the flow of information. The only “trends” people see on the internet are COMMERCIAL trends. It has nothing to do with what’s really going on out there.
The next time someone announces a “new trend” they should also announce that they were wrong all the time leading up to their epiphany.
Truth is, most men do horribly with women, and want easy answers handed to them. Those who make those promises, whether or not kept, are the ones who bank.
Nice FTC disclosure there: so we should always assume the writer is getting compensated. Doesn’t that destroy any appearance of neutrality?
I have a new book, Bettor Off Single, which flips a lot of the existing “PUA theory” on its ear. It has a nice, long, free excerpt on the site which also explains just how much criminal acftivity goes on among the gurus.
Those “standup guys” you praise (for cash, right? FTC disclosure says we should assume that) repeatedly threatened my life, harassed my mother while she was dying, and were encouraging college students to defraud the government by using student loan checks to pay for bootcamps.
It’s obviously not about getting laid, or you guys would see that the stuff you promote only works on whore-trash for sex, but it works great for cash from George Sodini types.
that the audience doesn’t even care when information is commercially corrupted is a sign that it’s hopeless; we’ll never educqate them, but many will exploit them.
You’re fucking WEIRD. Go peddle your bullshit someplace else.
Who said this was a place of neutrality? I do keep things as neutral as possible and only promote those I believe in, and/or have used personally.
Hence, why I don’t promote freakshows like you my friend.
Fuck you Ray Gordon. I sympathize with you for the brutality shown to you by those asswipe PUAs, but I have to wonder:
Do you have a single friend in real life? Where do you find the time to be the most notorious troll on internet? Or to file all these frivolous lawsuits? Have you EVER inserted your penis into a female vagina? How often and how recently? What kind of woman would want to sleep with, let alone have a serious relationship with, such a socially maladjusted misfit as yourself?
Your material reeks with condescension, hostility towards male and female alike, and makes one wonder if you have ANY humane or decent characteristics or any impulse to contribute positively to the welfare of humankind.