So @catches_stars on Twitter is pretty hilarious. She’s also got an OkCupid account, and regularly posts snippets of her conversations with some of the more problematic dudes who contact her, some on her main Twitter account and some on @okcupid_TXT. With her permission, and because I’m too lazy to actually write a post today, I’m passing along a few of my favorites.
This overeager fellow has a rather sudden change of heart when his stated plan runs into an obstacle, that obstacle being that @catches_stars finds him completely repulsive.
This guy is either totally high or trying some weird and misguided PUA wizardry on her. (It does not succeed.)
This foot-obsessed fellow spammed her with the same message from several different accounts.
This guy, who seems to be shirtless in his profile pic, gets what I assume is, to him, a very disappointing answer.
As does this fellow.
Romance is hard.
Martyn: equal but separate is a great theory, it’s about balance!
Us: it was used to systematically disadvantage PoC.
Martyn: but that’s not the theory! Why do you make everything so personal?
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Next in the series: Martyn asks why women get so emotional and can’t be totes rational and logical like him.
Not enough to convince me or anyone else here, obviously. Just repeating something doesn’t make it true. And since all your conclusions follow from a premise that most of us here don’t accept, you shouldn’t be surprised when we don’t agree with those conclusions.
@Kitteh’s
For some reason, IRL, I have taken to cutesy not-proper cussin’. Possibly because I have a 6yo cousin. Or a boyfriend with nice but fairly traditional parents. Buttocks is one of them. Nuggets (short for butt- or fucknuggets) is another.
IDK, ‘buttocks’ seems to express my frustration better than a string of swearing.
I will concede that buttocks are cute, especially when wiggled. 😀
I have no evidence, but I suspect books like “How to seduce a person of the gender you like” sell a lot better than books like “This method of seduction is total crap and doesn’t work!”
Book stores are after a profit.
For someone who claims he decided ages ago that game is bullshit, he’s mighty keen to defend it.
CWS – I like buttocks as a swear!
Reminds me of a line from the Goons:
“And now, a word from our sponsor.”
“DRAWERS!”
“Next week, another word!”
Ross Jeffries? This Ross Jeffries? That’s your fucking example of a good PUA?
Let’s see what Mr. Jeffries has to say:
Yeah, a real class act. Go fuck a lemon.
Even if this Jeffries creature wasn’t promoting rape, he should be sent to the corner of shame for using “disinterest” when it should be “uninterest”.
Somewhere there’s a dusty skeleton leaning by a phone.
Oh, look, that blur you just saw was the goalposts moving.
Marty, you never said shit about flirting, and even if you had, that’s not how flirting works.
Someday you will realize you are not the axis on which the world turns, maybe it’ll be today.
gelar – like this?
@Martyn
If you ever start to wonder why I decided to stop trying to help you, it was this line right here:
Fuck the fuck off.
Let’s not forget that Marty said that Eugenics as a theory is just fine and dandy. I’m just going to let that sink in for a bit.
I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised that a dude who’s ignored boundaries from the get-go on this site can’t see the problem with game.
Marty is a troll and he’s boring as fuck.
So I’ve been looking at RedBubble instead and OMG WANT:
http://www.redbubble.com/people/absinthetic/works/7630510-pigs-in-space?body_color=black&p=t-shirt&print_location=front&style=mens
Only a small number of people would get it, though. They’d probably assume it’s some weird Angry Birds reference.
Say, was game/PUA ever one of Mr Al’s hobbyhorses?
@Kitteh’s Unpaid Help: Yup. I was going to type “cobwebbed”!
Driving is itself practical, while the highway code is a set of rules governing how people should drive. @cloudiah
Agreed. Let’s all laugh at it again, shall we?
Hahahaha.
Hahaha. “Is itself practical” should be a thing and that’s real.
drst – first thing I thought was that it was an ad for the Hog’s Breath Cafe. I didn’t even think of Pigs in Space till I saw the caption. 😀
Kitteh’s: no, not really. Besides, this lackwit is completely devoid of humor, unlike Mr. Al.
Apparently, I was so amused, I pasted it a third time.
Pasting correctly is itself practical.
hellkell – I wondered if this was one of Mr Al’s more elaborate sock schemes.
I read a thread from about a year ago last night, and Mr Al was actually showing his smart side rather than his douchey side – it must have been that short period (?) when he was behaving. It’s a pity he couldn’t get his shit together, or rather, expunge all the shittiness. All his trolling since then suggests it was a lost cause.
Martyn,
Game = theory: This is the way in which a man might (at best) manipulate a woman into sleeping with him or (at worst) sexually assault her.
PUA = practice: I’m going to use of game to achieve either end (manipulation or assault).
People are objecting to the theory because its use in practice is to achieve terrible ends, and those ends are the very intention of the theory.
I’ve read many commercially published works on the subject. Yet no-one has ever cited the physical, hardback books found in stores like Waterstones or Barnes and Noble when making the claim that it’s about rape.
http://eqwithdenise.wordpress.com/2010/02/02/game-over-whats-wrong-with-game-seduction-and-the-pick-up-artist-industry/
http://www.xojane.com/issues/are-pickup-artists-contributing-rape-culture
http://www.politicususa.com/beware-creepy-rape-van-guy-pick-artist-cult.html
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Pick-up_artist
http://ferretbrain.com/articles/article-854
Trolls are always wrong.
They apparently cannot google!
Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong.