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Category Archives: Dating
Slate: A Conversation With Neil Strauss: “I look back on The Game and cringe.”
By Christina Cauterucci: Critics of The Game have waited a decade for Neil Strauss to issue a mea culpa. Plenty of readers saw his 2005 embedded investigation of the pickup-artist industry as an instruction manual on how to cajole beautiful … Continue reading
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Grantland: ‘Game’ Met Match: Pick-up Artist Godhead Neil Strauss’s Subtle, Surprising New Book
Steve Sailer wrote in 2009: The most heartfelt articles by female journalists tend to be demands that social values be overturned in order that, Come the Revolution, the journalist herself will be considered hotter-looking. Technically, it might seem highly possible … Continue reading
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WP: 10 years ago, Neil Strauss was a pickup artist. Now he’s a committed husband.
I notice that the plainer the woman, the more threatened she is by game. On the other hand, hot chicks seem stimulated and intrigued by it. I’ve never met a woman who was an 8 or higher who hated game. … Continue reading
The Game At Ten
The best way to understand the interviewer (Kathy Gilsinan) is to see her picture: From The Atlantic: Strauss: That’s exactly it. And I’ll go one deeper. To me, the biggest shock of my life, was how, myself who wrote The … Continue reading
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Inside the world of the ‘pick-up artists’
Andy Tillett concludes his article for the Daily Mail: “The PUA technique had worked – and nobody could accuse me of misogyny.” And that’s the important thing, right? Nobody accusing you of misanthropy.
WP: Black women face prejudice every day. I don’t need it in online dating, too.
From iSteve 2007: “Sailer’s Law of Female Journalism: The most heartfelt articles by female journalists tend to be demands that social values be overturned in order that, Come the Revolution, the journalist herself will be considered hotter-looking.” Emi Kolawole writes … Continue reading
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Swallowing The Red Pill
Our conversation was stimulated by this thread on Reddit’s Red Pill. Friend: “I can’t quite “buy” the redpill stuff cuz I don’t see how it creates a future where women rediscover the virtue and value of chastity and modesty… It … Continue reading
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When Narcissists Fall Apart
From The Rawness: Narcissists, without their armor of grandiosity, will fall apart. They reach a point where their armor is the only thing holding them together. Narcissists become what I like to call “grandiosity sharks.” Have you heard how a … Continue reading
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Reddit RedPill: Summary Neil Strauss
Link: Neil Strauss, author of “The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists” has decided that he needs to absolve himself of the “sins” he committed against womankind by conducting an interview with The Guardian and advertising his Beta … Continue reading
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Neil Strauss Trades the Game for the Truth
Joshua Rotter writes: The now-happily married father of one is only too eager to share his discoveries about life and love in his new book, The Truth: An Uncomfortable Book About Relationships, which he’s promoting at a Litquake brunch on … Continue reading
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