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By now you’ve probably seen the latest set of creepy PMs that’s making the rounds of the internet — you know, that series of sour-grapey insults some random finance asshole sent to a woman on Tinder who had gently rejected his crude sexual come-on. If you haven’t, I’ve pasted them in below.
Well, it turns out that this would-be Romeo is not only an asshole, but a wholly unoriginal asshole at that. Thinking that more than a few of his angry negs sounded vaguely familiar I did a bit of Googling and discovered that a couple of his more, er, polished insults came straight out of the pickup artist playbook. Quite literally.
That bit where he tells the woman he messaged that she’s “not hot enough to be acting like this?” An old PUA neg he literally may have discovered by cruising the message boards at VenusianArts.com, the website of everyone’s favorite PUA peacock Mystery, where one commenter described it as his favorite line to use with “highly egotistical women” he met in the club:
I tend to be particularly harsh with megabitches, because I don’t really care if they are responsive to my negs and get interested or I blow them the fuck out.My favorite line to blow a bitch out is “you’re not hot enough to be acting like this.”
I’ve used it a few times, and it’s great. You get to blow out Alpha style, and if you don’t blow em out, sometimes girls even go into check and cool it on the attitude.
Used this line on a 9 once, TRYING to blow her out.
We ended up banging twice that night.
Sooo… Is there a reason he gets the courtesy of remaining anonymous?
David, I’m so glad you did a post on this– when I first read these messages, I was also struck by the many tell-tale signs that he’s probably a PUA. I wouldn’t be surprised if he is a regular over at roosh v’s forums or other shitty websites. For one, they’re always talking about how it’s much more alpha to invite a girl over to your house for dinner rather than inviting her to a public location so that you’ll be able to “escalate” without giving her time to change her mind about sleeping with you. Also, they’re always moaning about how Sex and the City ruined a whole generation of women, lol.
Everyone I’ve ever met from Maine had a terrific personality, so there’s definitely something to that.
On the other hand, they have right-wing politicians every bit as whackjobbbity as those of the south. Never could pony that…
Oops, three Bs. Should only be two in “whackjobbity”. More tea, please!
@Bina: “I have to wonder if there wasn’t some kind of hand-written cheat sheet making the rounds, because all this canned formulaic stuff just seems so…OLD.”
I was hit on by a proto-PUA in early 90s. I found out that the instructions came from Usenet newsgroups and were circulated in .txt form in various BBSes.
You think he should be doxxed for being a run-of-the-mill asshole? Really?
Another baffling thing about their Sex and the City obsession is the age discrepancy. PUAs are always claiming that a woman over 25 is too old to bother with. Are many women between the ages of 18-25 even fans of the show? They would’ve been a bit young to watch it while it was airing. Aren’t women in their 30s and 40s the ones ruined by the show because the show was huge with women in their 20s and 30s while it was airing? Why do they care if the shows fans have hit the wall and are too old to have sex with anyway?
WWTH
I think they’re angry and confused about how women can still be happy and have sex even if they are over their age.
Aw, everyone missed me. Bless, y’all.
RE: katz
What are some sexy scenes from books that you guys can think of?
Do we include comics? Because if I can name comics, my repertoire gets bigger. Hubby really likes Maka-Maka (f/f), XXXenophile (f/f and m/f), and Small Favors (f/f). If you want story with your sex, there’s Artifice (m/m) and the Less Than Epic Adventures of TJ and Amal (m/m). If you want steampunk robots, there’s Chester 5000XYV (m/f, then f/f and m/m). And if you want to support my personal friends’ awesome work, there’s Queerotica (m/m, f/f, various trans/nonbinary).
What I’m saying is, I’m a lot better with porny comics than I am just about anything else.
RE: Kittehs
Now I’m seeing Ken Branagh’s turn as Gilderoy Lockhart gone horribly wrong …
You have to admit, they could not have chosen better casting for that role. Seriously.
Bina – I love 3-B “whackjobbbity”, may have to steal that. It certainly applies to Paul LePage and friends!
There is a certain tendency for the necks to turn decidedly more crimson as you head north (looking at you, Aroostook County) but southern Maine is generally pretty progressive. It’s starting to attract more and more high tech/finance workers tired of the long commutes and astronomical house prices in the Boston area. I’m a transplant myself – grew up in Mass., came here for an internship 15 years ago, and stayed for the beaches, affordability, and low-key (but still culturally vibrant) lifestyle. It’s like being on vacation all the time. I have yet to meet any Mainers unworthy of Mr. 32K Dick Pic’s sophistication and refined breeding. But I suspect you’d have to search a long, long, long time.
Wasn’t Hugh Grant originally considered for Lockhart? I thought that would have been even more brilliant. . . but that’s just me.
Aw man, how is it possible there are more Mammoths in Maine than there are in my state? HOW? (And yeah, having come from Boston, I can totally understand saying fuck it to the rent and commutes. Eesh.)
We Mainers surf the net a lot, LBT. You know, when we’re not busy hunting seal, inventing new names for snow, and saddening boners. So it’s inevitable we’d find our way here. (Good to see you back, by the way.)
I can’t believe how unaffordable Boston has gotten. Even when I was working full time, I still had to live with my parents, because a studio apartment was more than my entire monthly paycheck. Unless I was willing to live in the Berkshires and commute two hours each way, which, no. I don’t know what jobs people have that allow them to buy $800K Colonials – is everybody east of Route 128 a hedge fund trader?
RE: Buttercup Q. Skullpants
I seriously do not know. There’s a reason we got run out of Boston out of sheer poverty; their housing market is fucking ABSURD. Meanwhile, out here in Buckeye Bay, something like 20% of the houses are empty and the rents are a third to half what they are in Boston. I can afford to live in a decent apartment, all by myself, at a cheaper rate than the shittiest rathole in the entire Boston area.
Seriously, fuck Boston, yo. Ohio isn’t perfect, but it’s waaaaay easier to be poor in.
My Euro-brain tends to interpret “kilo” as a unit of mass equaling little over 2 lbs…
Sounds like one of those jobs I see frequently advertised on the Internet, where you can earn loads of money sitting on your home computer.
*hangs head in shame*
*doesn’t actually disagree, though*
It’s one of the reasons I tend to prefer porn by women; at least they don’t use so many terms like “manmeat,” “Polish salami,” “mantool,” “grand mal’ing cock” and “jazillion amorous mating sperm.”
You forgot “baby batter”.
@Unimaginative
I don’t know much about how doxxing works, but I do know that Reddit usernames, Twitter handles and OKCupid usernames are rarely left out of reports like these; what makes Tinder different? Plus, if I used that service, I would want to know about potentially violent users.
Also, it’s kind of amazing how they get upset that women don’t immediately hop on their dicks if they’re rich, but they also moan all the time about goldiggers. Is it just accepted that if they reach a certain income they’ll get all the ladies? But that non-rich guys still have a right to complain?
Ah, I see your problem here, you’re expecting their arguments to be logically consistent.
OK. I didn’t read the OP closely enough to notice that his tag or handle or nym or whatever wasn’t included, I thought you meant anonymous as in we should know his real name. Sorry about that.
Wow. That’s even sadder than the usual fare. Oh, off topic- anyone know how o get the wordpress app to show all the comments and not just the ones after some cutoff?
LOL at this guy saying if she had only known how much money he made, she would have been singing a different tune. I find it very annoying how these guys try to inject income into the discussion. Most women these days have their own income, and are looking for a companion whose company they actually enjoy, not a provider who they merely put up with. My boyfriend makes about half of what I do, and I couldn’t care less. I don’t need to be rich to be happy. 🙂
LOL at this guy saying if she had only known how much money he made, she would have been singing a different tune. I find it very annoying how these guys try to inject income into the discussion.
Actually, I’ve noticed this with a lot of right-wing Americans too. The moment they feel threatened, they fall back on income as the only sign of personal value.
Having read what the rich in the US get up to (_The Divide_, Matt Taibbi, go get it NOW!), I tend to take this just the opposite.
I’ve been waiting for a PUA post so that I could respond with this song. It’s a bit late because I was out of town this weekend, but I’m going to post it any way.
I lived in Portland, Maine for a little over 2 years a decade ago. If I had to move back to the US, I’d move back there.
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There’s also location, of course. And I quote: