There is a lot of PUA technique that amounts to an artificial means of improving unconscious or semi-conscious social signaling, and that strikes me as fairly inoffensive, but unless I’m one-minding badly here I don’t think that part of the culture is a common target of criticism.
I think certain critics of the PUA culture don’t even notice there are different parts to it, due to the outgroup homogeneity bias—they just notice that certain PUAs say stuff they don’t like, and generalize to PUAs in general. (The same thing happens to feminists.)
I think certain critics of the PUA culture don’t even notice there are different parts to it, due to the outgroup homogeneity bias—they just notice that certain PUAs say stuff they don’t like, and generalize to PUAs in general. (The same thing happens to feminists.)