The Misogyny Subculture: Pickup Artists (Part 6)

Every family, group and community has outliers-black sheep one could say. Within the misogyny subculture those black sheep are pickup artists or "PUA".


PUA is a community of men whose primary life goal is to "pick-up" or "romance" as many women as possible with the sole purpose of having sex. They have zero interest in any type of serious relationship. It is completely about sexual conquests.


Now, pick-up artists typically aren't apart of the 20% (from the 80/20 rule). Rather, they are often former incel sympathizers or just "regular dudes".


So, that begs the question how are they able to pick-up women?


Well, pick-up artists employ an approach they claim is scientific. They say it's about sociobiology. According to their philosophy women react to certain physical attributes but also react to specific social cues and mental/emotional manipulation.


PUA believe in crafting their presentation, which they call "game". First, improving one's physical appearance is key. They refer to it as "outer game".  The way to improve the outer game is to change the wardrobe, workout and improve personal hygiene.


Doing this (they say) will lead to a more potent "inner game". Inner game is exactly what it implies, which is improving self-esteem and confidence.


Once, these improvements are enacted guys will be able to actually fine tune their approach and their seduction.


You're probably thinking, "Ok. This actually sounds like good advice. Sure, the goal of sleeping with as many women as possible is a bit douchebaggy but what is the problem really?"


And, that is a fair point. It is actually what I thought too. It is certainly a point pua make. In fact, they frequently turn this advice into a lucrative business on the lecture and workshop circuits and on YouTube where their videos get massive views which results in huge monetization.


 But, of course, there are caveats and very substantive tangible reasons these guys are apart of the misogyny subculture.


Pick-up artists, unlike their brethren, aren't ideologues. They do not necessarily harbor an intense resentment of women. They are not red pills who believe women are out to conduct male genocide. Nor do pua have an irrational abhorrence for feminists.


However, pick-up artists do possess disdain and disregard for women. They view women as points in a contest or as objects to be conquered and subsequently discarded.


And, here is where pua's misogyny is most illuminated. As has been established, the only end goal is to seduce a woman into sex. Unfortunately, there are no principled guidelines or tethered structures as to how that is achieved.


Pick-up artists are notorious for having no shame in their game. They will do whatever it takes to get the pudding. If that means they feel it's necessary to lead a woman into believing an actual serious relationship is possible they'll do it knowing they have zero intentions of that. If it entails preying on emotionally vulnerable or unstable women , they will do it.


A well-known tactic that pua employ is negging. Negging is the practice of giving backhanded compliments or simply just being an ass. It is supposed to be a form of reverse psychology. For example a guy practicing negging will say, "You have great breasts! They can't be real. " The basic principle is women actually respond more favorably to men who
 ignore them or mildly insult them. Allegedly negging weakens women's defenses making them more vulnerable to seduction. Negging can also be employed against a woman's significant other instead of her with the same goal in mind.


(Side note: If negging disgusts you, it should. But, I can tell you I have personally witnessed it be successful in both methods [against the woman and her significant other in her presence].)


Some pua take it to the extremes, also. If running game doesn't work, some will resort to coercion or rape.


Pick-up artists essentially view women as commodities. Or, even more crassly they see women as prey. They checkout out the scene. They approach them. They lure them into the trap. Then, they kill it, so to speak. And, they move on with no remorse nor regard for the carnage they might left behind.


This callous attitude is why many people especially feminists believe pick-up artists are the most toxic among the misogyny subculture groups. Sure, they don't appear as misogynistic as let's say mgtow or as nihilistic and virulent as incels or as demeaning and slut shaming as crypto-misogynists; however, they are every bit as dangerous. They use whatever they have to do to entice women into sex then often leave them emotionally and mentally scarred. Sometimes their manipulation is physical.


But, why are pick-up artists considered the black sheep of the subculture? Well, let's begin with incels. Some incels (red pills) buy into what pick-up artists are selling.


However, many incels (red and black pills) think pick-up artists are selling false hope and more importantly betraying the ideology. Let's not forget incels' entire existence is predicated on the belief they are forcibly celibate because they possess certain physical and/or financial shortcomings that doom them to a lonely life and feminism is so pervasive within society that either a miraculous shift would have to occur or that shift is never coming. Oh, and we can't neglect the "reality" that 80% of "females" are vain vapid bitches and hoes whom are only interested in chads or beta males/cucks they can use and then throw away. (NOTE: Be VERY wary of any dude who primarily or exclusively refers to women as "females". This likely is an indicator they don't possess a generally favorable view of women. IJS) So, needless to say some dudes saying that if these incels just worked out; showered; and realized Aqua-Fresh isn't only good for cheap caulking they would get a little taste of pudding, is antithetical to the party line.


While some incels distrust pua, mgtow and crypto-misogynists detest them! Mgtow and crypto-misogynists believe pick-up artists are nothing less than snake oil salesmen. They believe pua's techniques and purporting of sociobiology is pseudoscience. (BTW they're correct; it largely is.) Essentially, they think pick-up artists are grifter blue pills selling false hope, pathetically naive to the insidious evil of feminism and who are liars because their "conquests are few and far between" regardless what their bragging says.


Pick-up artists believe mgtow are " simply pathetic losers who have no game and can't handle rejection". Their opinion of incels is a bit softer. They believe incels are losers too, but they "wallow in their pity because other incels and mgtow have encouraged them to do so." Most pua feel if incels just followed their advice they would having sex all the time.


Very similar to the other groups pua uses the internet as their main communication tool. They cluster in online groups and forums they call "lairs". They utilize these lairs to swap "trade secrets" and brag about conquests.


It should come as no surprise that within the confines of the lairs the misogyny and virulent rhetoric increases. I pointed out earlier that pua doesn't come across as misogynistic and hateful as the other groups and that is generally true. They are not likely to pervade Twitter, Twitch or Redditt with spiteful venomous name calling and harassing women. But, in the privacy of the lairs the name calling and disparaging is quite present. And, it does occasionally seep out into more public and well trafficked platforms. Especially in the form of negging.


Pick-up artists might be viewed as the illegitimate sons of the misogyny subculture but they are apart of it nonetheless. No, they don't wallow in self-pity like incels. They are not hateful pious jackasses like mgtow. Nor are they sanctimonious sexists like crypto-misogynists. Make no mistake though, they are every bit as misogynistic.


Women are literally nothing more than a piece of ass. They virtually see women in three categories: women they've fucked; women they haven't fucked yet; and, women they don't deem worthy of fucking. And, they will literally do whatever it takes to get the ass regardless what it is.


That attitude and approach itself is quintessential misogyny.


 

Tucker Carlson Is Now Propagating Incel Porn

Since Donald Trump being elected President of the United States Tucker Carlson has slowly but steadily waded into the white nationalist propaganda waters.


Carlson has used his primetime Fox News slot to bludgeon immigration and diversity. He has pretended to care about free speech and feigned worry about the seemingly increasing inclination of college campuses and social media sites to de-platform those individuals seen as too divisive or controversial.


Also, Tucker has increasingly injected populism into his segments. He has often (especially lately) made sharp attacks against corporations such as Amazon and has low-key articulated critiques of the wealthy in this country. (I should note he levies these critiques while simultaneously praising the tax cuts which 83% of benefited the top 1% in the country.)


In addition to all this Carlson has frequently had guests on that at the very least are sympathetic to white nationalist ideals and initiatives. For example, Rep. Steve King of Iowa has been a periodic guest. And, Tucker himself has espoused talking points that has him flirting with the Alt-Right, if not in a casual relationship with them.


But, now Carlson has resorted to feeding the dregs of the Alt-Right what I call incel porn. Now, full disclosure, I didn't coin the term. I first heard Ana Kasparian of The Young Turks  use it.


A week or so ago Carlson did a segment on his show claiming women making more money than men is bad for the country. He distorted the facts by citing the vanishing manufacturing segment of the workforce which left many areas with only hospitals and schools which are areas dominated by women. (Should be stated that those jobs in the past were viewed as "women's work". Some still do view it that way.) He implied (not so subtly) that increased attempts to bring more women into the workforce has even further decreased opportunities for men. He also hinted the effort of women to obtain equal pay has had an unintended consequence of stagnating wages...for men.


I would like to note that the decrease in manufacturing jobs has nothing to do with women or their fight for equal pay. Bad trade deals, outsourcing and greedy corporations have been the root cause of the manufacturing sector decreasing. Also, stagnant wages are due again to greedy corporations and politicians who coddle and cover for them. You know like giving them two trillion dollars in tax cuts so their CEOs can buyback stocks instead of investing into their companies by providing jobs and increased pay. But, I digress.


Tucker went on to say that this earning discrepancy has led to increased crime, incarceration, drug abuse, single parent homes and low marriage rates because women don't want to marry men who make less than them. He emphasized these things are particularly true in "large population areas" (ie: cities).


The last line is what I found interesting and honestly what separates Tucker Carlson from the other vapid troglodytes on Fox News. He is quite astute at low-key spewing propaganda while making it sound populist and logical. Everything he said here has a grain of truth but is largely specious.


I haven't seen or read anyone else mention this, so maybe I am off base, but when I heard him reference large population areas coupled with his other points I felt he was speaking to a broad audience but perhaps had a targeted subgroup in mind.


Follow me here for just a moment. You must understand how the current iteration of the Republican mind works. (Needless to say, I'm not saying all Republicans ,but let's not bullshit, most.)


When Carlson references large population areas it's fair to say he means large cities, right. Now, he mentioned high crime rates and drug abuse. Fact is when Conservatives think of crime and drug abuse they think of black and brown folks. I mean that is the crux of Trump's border wall argument. These brown folks are bringing crime and drugs because, you know, most criminals walk a 1,000 miles to steal a car and rape someone. But, again, I digress.


Crime leads to incarnation. Undoubtedly America's incarceration rate is inane. The United States has the vast majority of the world's prison population. And, unfortunately, the majority of the incarcerated are black and brown men.


Carlson also mentioned single parent homes. Although divorced families and single parent homes are a phenomenon across racial, socioeconomic and religious lines Conservatives like Carlson love to harp about so many African-American children growing up in fatherless homes. Of course, they never mention the mass incarceration of black men due to bullshit petty drug offenses and glaring disproportionate sentencing by the court system.


Oh, and, lest I not forget the low marriage rate. Again, people across the societal spectrum are getting married less or simply waiting until later in life.


When it comes to black men (especially young black men) not marrying several factors come into play. It's simplistic and intellectually dishonest to say it's primarily because women are making more money than men.


First, why are they making more money? It is somewhat difficult to be employed when you're incarcerated and then when you get out the system is designed to hold you down. Let's be real. How many employers are willing to give a brotha with a record employment with a better than decent wage? The numbers show white ex-cons receive twice the job offers as black ex-cons.


Forget being incarcerated let's talk about the black men without a record. Again, the stats show that black men have significantly more trouble obtaining an interview, let alone a second interview, than their white counterparts.


But, let me stop. I don't wanna get too off topic.


What Tucker Carlson is doing here is the oldest trick in the book, divide and conquer. He is obviously attempting to divide women and men by alleging women making more money is a root cause for society's ills and more specifically men's ills. He is also being more nuanced in making an effort to create a wedge between men of color and women of color when one already exists.


The reason Tucker's rant is incel porn is because the overlaying message he is purveying is feminism has ruined society and it's women's fault men's lives are so shitty. If they weren't making more money and in more positions of prominence than crime, incarceration and drug abuse would decrease. Men wouldn't participate in these activities if their women weren't trying to be the head of the household.


And, if women didn't make more money they wouldn't be so willing to do it all without men. If things reverted back to men making more money than women would want to marry them again.


Of course, this is pure silliness and some of it is just straight up fallacy. On the whole women don't make as much as men. This is a clear established fact. Women only earn somewhere in the area of $.76 to $.80 on the dollar what men earn.


While some women do not want to marry men who make less I would argue there are more men who have a problem with being with a woman who makes more. Even dudes who rail against the patriarchy and proclaim themselves male feminists have a serious hang-up about women making more money than them. (Another example of why many feminists are leery about self-proclaimed male feminists.)


Honestly, if you were to visit any incel forum or watch mgtow (men who go their own way [incel blog coming soon]) and proto-misogynist videos on YouTube you would hear this same inane vapid craven babble. The only difference is Tucker cloaks it in "concern for society" , fake populism and isn't as boorish and demeaning as the typical misogynistic tools on Twitter and YouTube are.


It is categorically idiotic to blame women making more money than men for the ills of our society. It is spurious and intellectually bankrupt.


But, this is what Tucker Carlson does five nights a week. He usually spews audio porn for white nationalists, xenophobes and crypto-racists. Apparently, now, he's decided to scrape the bottom of the barrel with the most pathetic, pitiful and misogynistic of the Alt-Right and give the incels and mgtows a little taste of audio porn too.