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Originally Posted by The Batlord
No, it's generally passive guys who latch onto a girl they can't have for whatever reason just so they don't have to pursue actual romantic relationships. Assuming they're gonna end up being sad, creepy, misogynist, pick-up artist types is silly. They may just be nerds.
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You need to be more aware of the context, man.
The kind of people MRAs and PUA scum appeal to, is exactly that kind of person.
I have friends who read "The Game" and genuinely believed what it told them until they got some context and started thinking more critically about the kind of person they wanted to be for themselves, rather than the kind of person they assumed other people wanted them to be.
Nerds and the insecure are exactly the kind of people that can be split by that sort of divide. It's really hard, as someone who's always struggled socially, to get to the stage you can genuinely dismiss other people's opinions of you and become a person you respect. A lot of people who end up PUAs and MRAs are that way because they're finding a really extreme form of self-worth somewhere within it.
What they do works because they take a shotgun approach until someone responds to them. What they think they're doing is forcing women to confront a bold, take-no-prisoners masculine idol that's found a way out of the AFC traps of caring about the other person whatsoever.
They're not even polygamists or bigamists - they're more like serial monogamists. Getting the girl and getting that rush of self-assertion from it over and over again is all that keeps them going. They don't stick around for it to fall apart once their lie unravels, so they avoid the fallout of anyone confronting them on their behaviour.