For the lulz, Brynn asked me to respond to this Jezebel post, criticising this AskMen dating advice article. I don’t drink The Game‘s koolaid, but I can debate from that perspective:
- Every guy who hits on a woman in a public place has either picked up a woman in a public place themselves or talked to a guy who has. Guys will not accept rules women set if they are different for hot guys. If women don’t want to be hit on somewhere, they need to collectively agree to refuse all such attempts, like they have at clubs.
- I agree the example is lame but how about a constructive suggestion? What is the correct way to approach a stranger you’d like to meet?
- Oh yes, because women never have ulterior motives.
- “Buying signals” is sales jargon – it implies the woman is the buyer and the guy is the object being sold.
- Where’d this one go?
- Oh, does that mean Jezebel agrees with #5 (the 15-minute rule) and #6 (probing for relationships)?
- Agreed
- Ouch!
- I hope Jezebel doesn’t agree with the classic wing formation?
- Women never close me, which is proof that I’m right about #13
- This one is a chicken-egg problem to implement – is that why Jezebel didn’t bother?
- I agree – I am perfect!
- All of this pickup stuff is trying to figure out how to operate within The Patriarchy, under the assumption that a few guys can’t destroy it on their own – once women are liberated, we won’t have to treat them like slaves.