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Well, yeah. It's used to disarm and unmask someone's defense by asserting that they are a certain kind of guy with certain views of women who acts in
by danneu 13y ago
Well, yeah.
It's used to disarm and unmask someone's defense by asserting that they are
a certain kind of guy with certain views of women
who acts in a particularly bizarre fashion towards
them [...] who defend[s] and act[s] nice towards
women in the vague belief it will get them laid,
if indirectly, through being the type of man they
believe women will have sex with [...] who
usually tries being too nice for a couple of
years, gets frustrated, then gets into the PUA
community.
That's the point.
- redthrowaway 13y agoI agree it's certainly abused, and misused for precisely the purpose you state. I merely contend that it describes a real phenomenon, and as such is not an inherently bad term. The misuse of it might indeed be more prevalent than its use to accurately describe what it was coined for, but I don't see how the term itself is to blame. It's kind of like the words "hipster" and "emo": their use as derogations are far more prevalent than their use to describe the particular subcultures they was originally intended for, yet if you didn't have those terms you'd still need something else to fill the void.