Do you consider Art of Charm’s methods to be so manipulative that they fall within the category of “PUA” for you?
I don’t know because I do not know what methods they advocate. The video at Art of Charm does not seem to advocate anything manipulative and seemed like it had a positive message but that is the extent of my knowledge of them.
I was not categorizing anything or anyone. I was stating a definition that I and many other people seem to use regarding PUA a probably cause for it to be “denounced by almost everyone.” I was offering an explanation. I then asked for your definition since there are many and yours different and currently unknown to me.
I asked what percentage of PUA techniques are manipulative because I wanted to know weather or not you consider manipulative techniques to be part of PUA material; eventually I would also like to know if you consider them valuable and a net positive, but the former is a large topic by itself and would need to be covered before the later could be discussed coherently.
a woman putting on cute clothes and makeup and acting flirty and trying to be her best self is “manipulative.”
“makeup”, “cute cloths”, “acting flirty” do not manipulation make. Those same things can be used in a deception or manipulation though.
I don’t know because I do not know what methods they advocate. The video at Art of Charm does not seem to advocate anything manipulative and seemed like it had a positive message but that is the extent of my knowledge of them.
I was not categorizing anything or anyone. I was stating a definition that I and many other people seem to use regarding PUA a probably cause for it to be “denounced by almost everyone.” I was offering an explanation. I then asked for your definition since there are many and yours different and currently unknown to me.
I asked what percentage of PUA techniques are manipulative because I wanted to know weather or not you consider manipulative techniques to be part of PUA material; eventually I would also like to know if you consider them valuable and a net positive, but the former is a large topic by itself and would need to be covered before the later could be discussed coherently.
“makeup”, “cute cloths”, “acting flirty” do not manipulation make. Those same things can be used in a deception or manipulation though.