Methods of Resisting Pick-Up Artists, Advertising, and other Manipulators

Strategy 1:  Understand that PUA tactics and methodologies–and other forms of influence such as advertising–are designed to engage and play with your emotions.  The tactics are designed to elicit feelings of attraction, aversion, obligation, helplessness, fear, arousal, laughter, curiosity, and laughter.  Usually the tactics are verbal but can also be visual and kinesthetic.
Strategy 2:  Do [...]

Next post will be Friday, May 25th or Saturday, May 26th—

Hey fellow bloggers,
 My next post will be this coming Friday or Saturday, where I’ll have new material.  However, I’ll be checking every day to moderate comments and respond to them.:) 
 In the meanwhile, feel free to bring up subjects you would like to see discussed on this blog that’s related to PUAism, advertising/persuasion, mind control, etc.  [...]

On PUAs, Mind Control, and Patriarchy: Why Go After PUAism? (Part 1)

What is pick-up artistry?
The acronym “PUA” stands for “pick-up artist”; generally, it stands for any male who studies and practices the arts of attracting and seducing women for sex, romance, relationships, etc.  However, some PUAs are female (i.e., Heidi Fleiss the madam that Neil Strauss wrote about in his book “The Game”).
 Wikipedia offers the following [...]

Discussion Rules

Here’s the deal:
Rule 1:  I own this blog.  What I say, goes.  I am supreme dictator here.  Period.
Rule 2:  My decisions are final.
Rule 3:  I will not post or allow material that I deem misogynistic, racist, homophobic, bigoted, rude, harassing, flaming, trolling, off the topic of a thread, manipulative, hostile to the intent of this blog or any of [...]

On PUAs, Mind Control, and Patriarchy: Why I Started This Blog (Introduction)

Shall I say, I have gone at dusk through narrow streets
And watched the smoke that rises from the pipes
Of lonely men in shirt-sleeves, leaning out of windows?…
 
I should have been a pair of ragged claws
Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
 
And the afternoon, the evening, sleeps so peacefully! 
Smoothed by long fingers,
Asleep…tired…or it malingers,
Stretched on the [...]

About This Blog

This is a blog dedicated to promulgating feminism–my version of it.
 There are many different kinds of feminism.  I’m not sure I fit into any specific catagory of it, although I think the closest fits may be militant radical feminism and Christian feminism, both of which I heavily identify with.  At any rate, these are my beliefs–and the beliefs I’m [...]