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Dance Dance Devolution: PUAs in the Club Edition

Paul Newman Joanne Woodward dance
Yes, that is Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward.

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.

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cloudiah
11 years ago

WTF is up with Asian dudes being read as invisible? I have so seen that myself, not in romantic relationships but in other settings, and it sets my teeth on edge.

Racism, you are so annoying.

CassandraSays
CassandraSays
11 years ago

Some big drunk frat boy once did the “he’s not there, I don’t acknowledge him” thing to Mr C at a party where I was SITTING ON HIS LAP. It’s fucking ridiculous.

Marie
11 years ago

@cassandrasays

Some big drunk frat boy once did the “he’s not there, I don’t acknowledge him” thing to Mr C at a party where I was SITTING ON HIS LAP. It’s fucking ridiculous

oh wow. O_o like, how does that thought process work?

Marie
11 years ago

And, I am the kind of annoying person who posts a rhetorical* question and leaves next, but I have to go to bed. I need to be getting up early now 🙁

*I hope that’s the right word this time 😉

Anyway, good night, manboobers.

SpleenyBaggage
SpleenyBaggage
11 years ago

I remember when I was about 13 my best friend’s brother (aged around 14) asked me to dance with him. I was horrible enough to laugh (best friend’s big brother?? EW!) so he took the defensive line of “That’s alright… I’d rather dance with a slab off the dunny door than dance with you!”

30 years on, the memory still makes me giggle (and feel slightly ashamed of myself… poor Tom).

cloudiah
11 years ago

I have a Korean friend who is into BDSM and who was once told he couldn’t be a dom because … Asian.

The Kittehs' Unpaid Help

“I am big dominant white guy, nothing matters but me!”

CassandraSays
CassandraSays
11 years ago

The funniest case was when someone did the “check it out, this guy is invisible to me” thing when I was out and about with the family friend who’s now a bodyguard. Dude has a triad tattoo on his hand. I mean, I get that most Americans would see that and not know what it is, but visible muscles and the posture that you tend to see in martial artists + really obviously gang-related-looking tattoo + I’m going to act like that guy’s no threat at all = just how much of an idiot are you?

The Kittehs' Unpaid Help

Niters Marie!

SpleenyBaggage – LOL and the thing is, most of the douches Dave quotes here have never got past that 14-year-old level.

The Kittehs' Unpaid Help

Cassandra – that sounds like Darwin Award material.

CassandraSays
CassandraSays
11 years ago

To turn off the snark for a second, what this is is the other side of the fucked up way that American culture frames race and gender that frames black men as hypersexual. It frames Asian men as completely non-sexual, and of course white men are the norm that everyone else is assumed to exist in relation to.

Some Gal Not Bored at All

@Marie

Good night!

SpleenyBaggage
SpleenyBaggage
11 years ago

I LOVE to dance… I take several classes a week, currently doing 1930’s partnered Charleston, jitterbug, and solo jazz. You very quickly learn the difference between good touching and bad touching when dancing with multiple partners; most leads are respectful and are just out to have good clean fun, but occasionally (rarely) a dance-douche turns up who is all about the “casual” grope. Dude, your hand is supposed to be on the middle of my back, over my lower ribcage… you let it slide around the side so you can brush up against the side of my boob, I’m gonna notice, yeah? All the blerghs. And don’t look all wounded when I correct you, or (for repeat offenders) I refuse to dance with you again, and tattle on you to the teacher.

Incidentally, I go to a brilliant dance school that welcomes same-sex partners – some of our best leads are lady-leads. Not so many man-follows, though they turn up now and then and are treated respectfully (‘though it weirds a few man-leads out, they’re grown up enough to deal – MRAs could learn a thing or two).

opium4themasses
opium4themasses
11 years ago

@cassandrasays You have basically nailed it. This gets really messy when people feel entitled to date others of their race. Entitled assholes get some serious hate-ons for people who stray from the group.

I’d say women get the brunt of the blame for it, but America’s history of lynching African-American men says otherwise.

lumi
lumi
11 years ago

This video was hilarious, because this guy can’t dance like I can’t dance. Seriously, I took ballet for a couple years as a child and still become a jerky robot on the dance floor. I’m also old and married, so I don’t go to clubs. Is this a realistic depiction? If so, ew. .

CassandraSays
CassandraSays
11 years ago

If you see a dancefloor full of people like that either you’re at a wedding or it’s time to go find a better club.

nopestories
nopestories
11 years ago

“If we remove everything invented and/or built by men, you would have a small number of women living in caves”
“Men build up civilizations. Women tear them down, the minute you stop “oppressing” them.”

Sooo sexy man…

Falconer
11 years ago

I have never liked going clubbing. Probably a large part of that has to do with the music being so loud I can’t hear myself think, and otherwise being out of shape and generally introverted.

I have done some ballroom dance. It was a phys ed credit in college, and I gotta say it was the most fun phys ed I’ve ever done. We did waltz, swing, tango, foxtrot, and a fifth one I’ve forgotten.

Of course, I’ve forgotten all of them except the waltz. So if I ever end up in a 19th century novel of manners I’m golden when it comes to the ball.

Buntzums
Buntzums
11 years ago

That’s a cute one. I love dance video’s. These kind of things are more for the under 20 crowd I think. None the less dance and music are always a great opener but the whole like booty bump thing is like…. uh. As for meeting women it’s not the worst tactic in the world. I have a strange feeling that these women aren’t going to necessarily go home with the guy like most pua’s hope but at least he will be seen as a possible interest which is still better than a wall flower. It’s nice to see men dancing for women once in a while. Here is a video where a woman dances for a man and has beautiful costumes.

freitag235
freitag235
11 years ago

Completely OT, mostly, but check out the goat-cat:

Why evolution is so interesting.

Falconer
11 years ago

Darn it, freitag, you beat me to it! I got distracted by the Internets. Also, you were brave enough to just plop it down apropos of nothing; I thought I ought to wait until brain bleach was needed.

filo4000
filo4000
11 years ago

you know, I don’t even hate this, as long as he didn’t touch me or get too close

but then again I’ve only ever been in a bar/club like 4 times in my life so I’m probably not the best person to take advice from

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Even without sound I can hear that kitty! 😀 Looks like the sort of chatter cats do when the birds are meanly on the other side of the window.

lowquacks
lowquacks
11 years ago

Javascript’s being odd for me and I think I may have missed a few embedded videos, but has anyone posted this yet?

lowquacks
lowquacks
11 years ago

Javascript’s being nasty to me and some of the embedded videos aren’t loading, but has anyone posted this yet?