Baker of Jezebel. On their predominately male, heterosexual planet it's the poor, gullible men who are the true victims. I was interested to see how these groups were reacting to the news of Rodger's rampage.
It is disturbing, if not surprising, that they are using these murders to reinforce their hatred of women and "Beta" men, and to cement their own status at the top of the pyramid. When news of the shooting broke, PUA Hate members attempted to absolve themselves by critiquing Rodger's sex appeal "Short lower third and gay midface, with zero brow ridge," one decided , ridiculing his mother's looks, and scrambling to assert authority among themselves.
Nich, can you add that as a rule? Want more of our free, weekly newsletters in your inbox? A PUA site called Strategic Dating Coach — which sells DVDs on how to "turn a conversation with a woman sexual in no time flat" — commented on one of Rodgers' YouTube videos, where he despairs about his dating life as he films a couple kissing in Santa Barbara.
He should have gone to our website and got our personal dating coaching or purchased one of our products. Don't 'suffer injustice. Roosh himself weighed in: "I'm trying to think of ways our enemies will come after us because of this, but if anything, we're the solution to this sort of murder rampage.
Kearns interviewed one of the site's administrators and actually found his views to be at odds with most of the site's users. Immediately after the shootings some posters to PUAHate distanced themselves from Rodgers, but others sarcastically commented that the shootings could have been prevented if only women had had sex with him.
Reporting by Mike Wendling. You can listen to the programme here , or download the free podcast. We sit around a circular table in a panelled conference room. Oil paintings of horses stare down at us. Now I teach other people. Raj uses PUA terminology abundantly. Both Raj and Mike are perhaps unsurprisingly edgy around me. I shunt my chair into a corner and arrange my features into a neutral expression.
The workshop begins with Cassell urging Raj and Mike to pick their dream women. With the right mindset, Cassell says, they can bring their dream women into existence. Pop psychology session over, Cassell teaches them a conversation model.
When approaching a woman, they should begin by making an assumption, before using a hook to draw her into conversation. Next they should challenge her, then introduce a time constraint and close the interaction by asking for a phone number.
Raj and Mike hunch over their notebooks like dutiful schoolboys. In recent years, Cassell has been describing himself as a dating coach as well as a pickup artist, and avoids the worst excesses of the PUA community, such as sexually coercive tactics. Notorious pickup artist Daryush Valizadeh — known as Roosh V — was accused of advocating legalising rape, on private property, in comments he later said were satirical. The American pickup artist Julien Blanc was banned from entering the UK in , after , people signed a petition protesting against his visit.
This appears to be textbook negging. Thus follow two of the most dispiriting hours of my career, as I walk around central London in the rain, watching as Raj and Mike pester women. At one point, Mike stops two women on Oxford Street and pretends to ask for directions.
After they walk on, Cassell sends Mike chasing after them — he is convinced one was being flirtatious, because she crossed her legs while speaking to Mike.
She tells him she has a boyfriend. Cassell decides in favour of it, but by then, thankfully, the women have moved on. As a young woman who has experienced street harassment throughout my life, it is an extraordinarily uncomfortable thing to observe. Like the connection between Frasier and Cheers. The second leg of that change came about totally differently, and that second half is where The Truth starts. Contact this reporter at katie buzzfeed. Contact Katie Notopoulos at katie buzzfeed. Got a confidential tip?
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