The regulars at PUAhate.com – we’ve met them before — are a strange and bitter bunch. Most seem to be self-loathing so-called “incels” who blame their lack of romantic and sexual success on their average or below-average looks. Rejecting the basic premise of the pickup artist crowd – that average guys can transform themselves into suave lotharios by mastering manipulative pickup formulas – the PUAhate regulars tend to be true believers in what they somewhat pretentiously call “looks theory,” the odd and obviously untrue notion that women only date men with “male model” looks.
As one PUAhater put it recently:
PUA makes you think that all your problems are because of your personality/behaviour – i.e. things you can control. So when you keep failing, it means that YOU are fucking up and doing things wrong
the reality is that many of us just lost the genetic lottery. we are ugly, the wrong race, the wrong height etc, and that fucked us up. there is NOTHING we can do about it
So, naturally, the PUAhaters spend a lot of their time jealous of tall, good-looking men for their supposed monopoly on the women of the world — whom they also hate.
But the strange thing is that the PUAhaters pretty much hate everyone else as well. They get angry when guys they consider ugly score “hot chicks.” They get angry when guys who are good-looking but not male models get attention from “really hot girls.” And so on, and so on, and so on.
Indeed, many of the regulars seem to walk around in a perpetual state of rage, angry at each and every man who’s managed to pair up with a woman, not to mention the women as well.
One regular recently described his “day from hell” to his comrades:
To start the day I saw a couple where it was an average White guy with an OBESE Asian girl. They were walking around acting like they were trying to prove shit. LMAO. I wanted to kick the guy in the fucking nuts for dating that landwhale. If you’re going to use the racial advantage, at least date a girl who is under 300lbs. Later I go to the gym and see the same tall guys I usually do. Even if I had a good face, how the fuck do you compete with guys who are fucking 6’4”?
Then at the gym there’s this good looking White guy there talking to this Asian dude about how Asian girls are easy and how they approach him. To make things worse after that these fucking frat douchebags come in with their girlfriends to show off . Then to cap off the day a girl I used to know from freshman year walks right past me without even saying anything. I used to fucking live next door to this bitch and now she doesn’t even say anything and acts like a pretentious cunt. She’s an Indian girl dating a White dude lmao. Days like today make you wonder why you even still try in the first place.
Of course, as I’ve mentioned before, most of those posting on PUAhate don’t actually seem to be ugly by anyone’s standards but their own, at least judging from the pictures of themselves they sometimes post to the site, which reveal them to be mostly average-looking guys, with some of the regulars even quite conventionally handsome.
But evidently they would rather believe that they have “lost the genetic lottery” rather than face a more obvious explanation for why the girls don’t like them: because they’re shallow, self-obsessed assholes who hate themselves and hate women and radiate their bitterness from every pore. (And some are even creepier than this, like this pedophile – sorry, ephebophile – who’s angry at me personally because unlike him I don’t chase after 15-year-olds. Link NSFW.)
The PUAhaters often talk about getting surgeries to “correct” their supposed genetic flaws. They would do far better to spend that money on therapy.
It made me sad ‘cos he was pretty cool in a crusty way in his earlier regeneration during Tom Baker’s time.
Oh and trivia: Philip Latham, who played Borusa as president, was in Dracula, Prince of Darkness and was the star of the series The Pallisers. 🙂
OMG “The Pallisars” – blast from the past! First programme I ever saw on a colour TV, at my grandparents’ house. With the colour at maximum vivdness.
LOL! I think it might have been one of the first of the big drama series the BBC did in colour. I know the Forsyte Saga was the last in black and white. I’ve still got the magazine about the Pallisers somewhere. Susan Hampshire and Anna Massey in their yoof!
And how could I forget Derek Jacobi hiding under the world’s worst Dundreary Weepers as Lord Fawn,</a. and Anthony Ainley in his pre-Master days as Reverend Emilius.
Drat!
http://www.jimandellen.org/ellen/74Pallisers713SplitScreen18.jpg
Ok, I have to borrow the dvds just to see those whiskers in action!
LOL!
Holy facial hair batman!
And I liked the human-daleks and dalek-human — Dalek Sec was actually…human, human enough anyways. And the human-daleks — “why?” — that, right there, that’s what makes us human.
I’m torn between visualising your Latin teacher as a Cyberman or the centurion from Life of Brian …
Wrong thread, drat!
Cyber, dalek, whatever.
I am stunned! When did the Daleks and Cybermen learn sarcasm? :O
I’m not sure it is sarcasm, I think it’s that gap where sufficiently true and insulting things, said without any sort of emotional apology for the insult, sound sarcastic.
“This is evident” can be read as sarcasm, but it’s nonetheless the simple truth of the matter. I’m more interested in where cyber’s got a concept of elegance!
I didn’t think the Daleks were emotionless, just that their primary emotion was hate.
Space Nazis, after all.
But that exchange was glorious. That couple of episodes at the end of Series Two were about the best of the lot (and they feature Freema Agyeman before she played Martha).
That was Martha’s cousin! (No seriously, that’s how they retcon’ed it)
The one with Martha and Dalek Sec — I paraphrase but “your creator removed all emotion, said it made you stronger” “and he was wrong” “he was what?!”
But yeah, hate clearly remains, and just before the Bad Wolf saves the day (and universe) 9 tells those daleks that right now, deep down, there’s just a little bit of fear left.
Disclosure, I’ve watched all of new Who at least twice, and more than that in most cases…and have a more or less eidictic memory.
On that note, cybers + glorious = “cyber king walks all over London and no one notices?!” — 11’s ranting about the cyber king in The Next Doctor. The cybers installed a woman as the cyber king, and couldn’t convert her. When they try she sits up and starts talking about seeing all of the universe and how “this is glorious” — the cybers get all pissy about glorious not being a valid designation and she replies by destroying them.
Ten tries to for her a planet, because “a mind like yours” but she says she has one and it goes as you’d expect…
That episode…her…”the next doctor”…”if anyone had to be the doctor, I’m glad it was you”…I love that episode
1,468 come on guys, we can break 1,500!
Anyone have androgynous hair cuts that won’t make me look like Bieber? I’m yet again debating cutting it all off, probably won’t do it, but photoshopping hair on my head goes all Bieber.
Too much Dr. Who–it’s like my Kryptonite!!
So, I’m going to link to Ex Urbe again. Or… nah, I’ll just mention it by name and let folks google it.
But FUCK Cesare Borgia, man, he deserved what he got!
…oh, am I getting a little emotionally involved in history, perhaps to an odd degree?
That is some very VERY good history writing, yes it is.
PS: watched some Tom Baker Dr Who a while back. Good stuff, good stuff.
Also, I was watching a BBC series, and Callum Blue came on, and I kept thinking ‘hey, I know this guy. Wasn’t he a Doctor? No, that’s David Tennant, and he’s not David Tennant. But wasn’t he the Doctor?’
Then I realized that I had last seen him on SMALLVILLE, and my brain broke.
(darned BBC, confusing me so)
(Zen, if you’re wondering)
(that is, Zen is the BBC mini-series he was on, as the villain. On Smallville he was Zod. Zen, Zod, whatever!!)
Argenti, have you been looking at haircuts with a fringe/bangs or without one?
The way I have my hair is very short all round the back and sides with a side parting and a full, quite heavy side fringe which I tend to keep tucked behind my ears.
You could try something like that but have a less thick side fringe.
My suggestion is have a look at mens fashion magazines (like men’s vogue) or the hairstyles being sported by catwalk models.
If you’re looking to keep your hair longer but androgynous I would suggest keeping it just above shoulder length, have a centre parting and keep it roughly the same length but a bit shorter around the face.
The other option is just to go to a decent hairdresser and discuss it with them and ask what would suit your hair type and face shape.
You might have to shell for this a bit more, but it’s worth it to get a hairdresser who really does know their stuff. Once you have the haircut right you can go to cheaper places for trims.
Lol this was too easy! Last time I had it short I kept getting told I looked like Ryder in Girl, Interrupted. (Read the book!)
But when it grew out even a little it got long enough I’m afraid I’d have a Bieber cut…maybe I’m just being a combo of excessively anti-Beiber, and attached to my hair despite my complaints about it.
In totally random things, my biggest clown loach is falling over backwards trying to examine the underside of a leaf. Fish are silly!
Argenti, I don’t think that Ryder-ish cut would grow out as Bieber-ish. As long as you don’t style it that way, anyway. 🙂
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