Behold, what may be the most hilarious Pickup Artist video ever. In it, someone calling himself Skills shows the fellas how to “open” ladies wordlessly, using only the seductive power of their sexy, sexy dancing. And not just one kind of dancing: Skills demonstrates smooth moves for all sorts of dances, from Disco to Latin to Booty to Rock ‘n’ Roll. (Today I Learned that “Take on Me” by A-ha is the untimate hard-rocking Rock ‘n” Roll number.) Apparently most styles of dancing require men to stare relentlessly at their partners’ breasts and general breast area.
Oddly, the woman Skills has seduced hired to appear in his video does not appear all that impressed with Skills’ skills. MISANDRY!
Oh, and WAIT! Before watching this, make sure that “annotations” are turned on. Otherwise you will not be able to fully appreciate the subtleties of Skills’ teachings.
I stole this video from the excellent PUA.txt Twitter account, featuring nothing but authentic wisdom from the PUA sector.
*travel in packs
Today’s internetting is going so well for me. /sarcasm
And this is clearly just another penguin whore trying to lead the poor, defenseless male penguins away from the righteous path of PGTOW*
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*penguins going their own way, of course…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCkkOqXUaZo
@some gal
Truth.
I don’t want to defend this guy (he’s obviously very VERY sexist) but he might not be staring at the woman’s breast. Or at least, not not that. As a terrible dancer myself, I think I recognize the behavior of a clumsy person trying not to step on his (unwilling) dance’s partner.
And no. No, it’s not subtle at all. No woman in the world would think so, IMO. I sure as hell wouldn’t. Some women might go with it, because they find him cute/fun/whatever, or wanna get laid, or really like to dance or, very likely, are afraid to be rude. Not a chance in hell she doesn’t get his intents, unless she’s already really drunk. Which is what they’re often counting on anyway.
*not just that
Last few times I went to a nightclub ( admittedly at least five years ago) I got random guys trying to rub their crotch against my bum, so some strange guy dancing with himself in front of me would be a huge improvement.
@some gal – oh yep, having to dance in a defensive formation does really take some of the joy out of it.
I was actually looking for this clip on YouTube, but it’s only on Vimeo — which I’m not sure will embed. It’s a dancing “skit” Gilda Radner did with Steve Martin, and it’s much better dancing.
@SaltPickles
It is just another place where participation in any way is assumed to equal consent to all sorts of other things. If you don’t want to dance with other people then what are you doing dancing alongside them? If you didn’t want to be rubbed or groped or grabbed or kissed, what were you doing out on the dance floor?
If these PUAs were really in the business of helping men be better at social interactions as their defenders claim, they’d teach them how to actually ask for consent from others rather than teaching them to assume consent and take advantage of social conditioning to try to get what they want.
I really don’t understand guys in clubs…….
Luckily the place I like doesn’t mind kicking out male patrons that can’t control themselves.
I expected something more like this (may be NSFW):
That…may be the most awkward dancing I’ve ever seen, and I dated a math major.
Skills needs to change his name, because he ain’t got none. That was the saddest display, but good for a laugh today.
Some Gal: thanks for the cats dancing. I sent it to the whole crew at work after we got an email about Michelle Shocked’s anti-gay rant at a show this past weekend. We all needed a palate cleanser.
@melody, It can work that way with boyfriends in a gay club as well.
@some gal, Yes, it would be nice if no wasn’t viewed as a challenge by these idiots.
Integral: That guy would be about 1000 times more likely to pick me up than the guy in the OP, because he made me laugh intentionally.
And what’s wrong with Math Majors dancing? I got my BA in Mathematics and I dance just like a gastropod.
@Some Gal
Yep, that’s true. I mean, if I didn’t want it groped what was I doing owning a bottom at them in the first place.
Anyway, dancing is now something I do in my own loungeroom with my own choice of music, and I can wiggle as much as I want to without people thinking its at them. Actually I do wiggle at my partner sometimes, but he thinks its more endearing than sexy.
Wow, I just read about that Michelle Shocked thing. WTF.
@joanimal
And, even though I didn’t say no, if my friends picked up that I was uncomfortable through a crowd of people (he’d moved us away while dancing), in the rather dark club, the guy who grabbed me sure as hell could have figured it out if he’d cared.
I really shouldn’t judge anyone else’s dancing. I’m Danish, and I dance like a herring.
Math majors dancing.
Oh my…is that a real song? The Katy Perry one?
I only watched a minute; I’ve no sound at work and the annotations were mostly blocked by some stupid ad I couldn’t close. Not that it mattered … that guy looked like a complete idiot. He was clunky, awkward, not graceful or flowing, let alone anything near sensual. He just looked like a try-hard and the whole thing made me laugh … not least that the woman looked a bit like our Prime Minister, who would probably also be laughing at such a twit.
If I’m gonna look at Guy Makes Fool Of Himself Dancing, I’ll stick to watching Mr K. It’s sexy when it’s on purpose and everyone involved is laughing!