How to Pick Up Girls (A Guide by Girls for Boys - from VICE): "Most of our very first PUA experiences were smuggling our way into a club with a fake ID just so some Julian Assange-looking weasel-in-a-waistcoat could tell us he can read palms."

ymiapheramone · 2015-02-10T20:28:32+00:00

This has been repeated at least 4,600² billion times: do not take advice from women on how to pick up women, just as you wouldn't ask a fish for advice on how to catch fish.

Throwaway_d · 2015-02-10T20:53:07+00:00

Most of the article was useless, but this was really encouraging:

Remember, there are some times where girls just don't want to be chatted up – if we look like we are already on a walk of shame, for example, or outside an abortion clinic.

Other than that, we're really fine with getting wooed anywhere. In fact, no matter how cynical the girl, it's a really pleasant thought someone still wants to bang us when we're applying chapstick to our nose on a train platform while contemplating crumbed ham. It's awkward and Hugh Grant-y (oh fuck off, you love Richard Curtis films too), but charming incompetence is really all that European blokes have going for them in the sex stakes. Approaching a girl in an unlikely situation takes nads. Girls really like nads. Not to look at. Don't show us your nads. Don't text us your nads. Do talk to us (about things other than your nads and the size of your nads).

I'd like to see that girl say that after seeing some of the brutal rejections a guy gets doing day game. But nevertheless, it's nice to hear a women confirm that at least some of them like it.

-Awake- · 2015-02-10T22:21:20+00:00

Made me think of the Rollo-Tomassi - "Build a better beta" trope. You can see that she has no respect for the guy that she's talking to. It seems like all girls see most guys as try-hard betas that want the world from these girls, while the girls give them the grace of their presence and sexual intimacy.

All of this aside, there are several things that one can take from this article if one knows how to cut out the useless parts (98% of the article) and then view it in the proper context

"If she wants to bang you/is high enough to believe there's a good party going on at 4AM, she'll go along with this bullshit. Single people are, against the odds, always staggeringly optimistic about the night ahead. "

and Consider these topics to be banned from Tinder chat: your epic weekend plans; the undoubtedly epic hangover you're going to have as a result of them; music genres; what A-levels you did; holidays. Playing flirty-uppies with a total stranger is completely unnecessary – just ask her out (edit: but don't be a beta, interpret this as invite her out to hang out with you). It's 2015, half the work is done for you: don't take an app that's designed solely to help lonely people have sex with each other and then use it to force girls to suck on conversational rusks. If you're still stuck making Tinder small talk about her "plans for the summer" or the exact location of her office, you've fucked it. "

These two IOIs are solid "– Her friends seem a tiny bit annoyed with her – She's touched you on the top of the arm (this is actually a thing)"

But the best line in the article "There is a really thin line between giving us pangs in our lower abdomens and making us want to call the police."

All in all, most of the other things were backwards. Sure, she'll be annoyed if you wear something gaudy or pull out a zippo lighter, but if you pull it off right, you're one shit test closer to bedding her.

Especially because in the presence of an alpha, she'll forget every condescending word she wrote

brightskies2094 · 2015-02-10T20:26:25+00:00

Man, I hate vice

2015-02-10T20:22:09+00:00

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2015-02-10T21:30:47+00:00

Eh this just makes me cringe

lukekvas · 2015-02-10T22:42:52+00:00

Ok I'll take the unpopular position. I've seen a lot of guys (source: fraternity member) go about seduction all wrong and honestly this article is a good what not to-do guide. It doesn't say anything to do really or give much useful advice on game. But once you've read seddit for awhile this is like a nice dose of reality. Girls can tell if you are trying to pull game on them. This line was particularly spot on for me.

So often the difference between a creep and potential hook-up is that a girl actually likes the latter.

So true. Reading the girl and the situation is just as important as what you are actually doing.

2015-02-10T21:06:09+00:00

Articles like this always read the same.

WhosCountin · 2015-02-11T16:05:46+00:00

"just so some Julian Assange-looking weasel-in-a-waistcoat could tell us he can read palms."

Same bullshit really. Shame the "wrong" guy for showing his sex drive while going out of her way with wanting the "right" guy to show his sex drive.
Make no mistake, the guy wouldn't have been called a weasel in a waistcoat if he was attractive to em.

But yeah.. Women go through their lives with the feeling that guys treat them like slabs of meat. Men go through their lives wishing women would treat them like slabs of meat. The detriments of being one gender looks like a fucking privelege to the other gender, making each gender frustrated as hell.

But hell, what do I know, I'm no good at this game shit..

HighendBark · 2015-02-13T17:14:58+00:00

"Buy her a drink. Everyone likes free stuff" - well, cya article.

omark12 · 2015-02-11T10:04:45+00:00

I kind of agreed with the whole diss on PUA. I don't really buy it. I prefer to follow the Mark Manson school of thought.

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