[Tigre]

Blog post about the comic...

Quote:

http://tynan.com/xkcd

In the next frame of the comic, the “good guy” stick figure says to, “talk to them like a fucking human being.” It’s tough to know exactly what that means, so let me attack it from a different angle. A really effective opener, which I think was invented by Discovery at Venusian Arts, is to walk up to a girl and say something along the lines of, “I’ve noticed a lot of guys hitting on you. How are they doing on a scale from one to five?” After a response, you follow up with, “Let me guess… what’s your name? Where do you live? What do you do for work?”

This opener gets huge reactions. Why? Because all of the guys talking like “fucking human being(s)” are boring and so obviously failing to attract the girls, that the girls think it’s hilarious. Why not try to be better than normal?

But even if you disagree and think that normal is a good place to be, what about people who CAN’T talk like a normal human being? What happens to people who didn’t happen to develop normal social skills? Why is it so evil and manipulative for them to try to learn them? Things like bantering (a.k.a. negging), good storytelling, good body language and eye contact, are things “normal” people do well. They’re also, not coincidentally, what we teach students. You can’t just tell them to talk like a “fucking human being”, you have to show them what that means.

[Deluge]

(03-09-2012 11:28 AM)WesternCancer Wrote:  

"I only want sympathy in the form of you crawling into bed with me."

People use Fall Out Boy lyrics as pick up lines? I don't want to live on this planet anymore.

[Porteño]

I can't post links yet but go to the xkcd comic numbered 513 to see what Randall thinks of guys in the "friend zone". Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

I tell you, the demonisation of "nice guys" bothers me a lot more than attacks on players. The poor betas get hated on for doing exactly what they were always told they had to do.

[j r]

(03-11-2012 09:54 AM)Porteño Wrote:  

I can't post links yet but go to the xkcd comic numbered 513 to see what Randall thinks of guys in the "friend zone". Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

I tell you, the demonisation of "nice guys" bothers me a lot more than attacks on players. The poor betas get hated on for doing exactly what they were always told they had to do.

There is a lesson in that, no?

Go through life giving women what they ask for and there's a pretty good chance you'll end up despised for it. At best, you'll find yourself being pleasantly patronized and condescended to.

[WesternCancer]

To me this way of getting girls is way more morally wrong. Sure PUAs use cheezy gimmicks to bed a girl, but their intentions are clear. Compliment and cuddle guy weasels his way into her pants after putting up a facade of who he really is he waits for an emotional chink in her armor to attack, he pretends to be just a friend but when hes away from her hes jerking it to her memory, its creepy. No wonder girls are so turned off by beta males.