I recommend Clarisse Thorne’s Confessions of a Pickup Artist Chaser, a substantial overview of the PUA communities.
In an Amazon box on my desk right now :-).
PUA does cover a wide range, but so does, for example, science fiction fandom. Is that one thing, or many things? Fannish fans may look down on Trekkies, and literary types scoff at fannish fans, and all of them scoff at commercial conventions, but really, they do all join up, even if some of them are barely aware of the others’ existence. PUA is also many things, but they also join up, and if you try to take some and leave the rest, you’ll have contact with the rest anyway through the community, and one way or another will have to take up an attitude about it. And one of the many things that is PUA is this particular thing that I’ve been talking about. To name it more explicitly, MDFS BDSM, not as bedroom games, but as ideology. There are smoking guns here.
And beyond endocytosis is phagocytosis, the digestion or destruction of the ingested particle.
I agree about MDFS (presumably Male Dominant Female Submissive) as ideology is worse than problematic. It’s putting a penny in the fusebox so far as abuse is concerned.
Is there a LessWrongian term for a self-sustaining blind spot?
Interesting point about to what extent fandom is a thing, or more generally, any diverse bunch of human social systems which are sort of under one name are a thing.
In an Amazon box on my desk right now :-).
PUA does cover a wide range, but so does, for example, science fiction fandom. Is that one thing, or many things? Fannish fans may look down on Trekkies, and literary types scoff at fannish fans, and all of them scoff at commercial conventions, but really, they do all join up, even if some of them are barely aware of the others’ existence. PUA is also many things, but they also join up, and if you try to take some and leave the rest, you’ll have contact with the rest anyway through the community, and one way or another will have to take up an attitude about it. And one of the many things that is PUA is this particular thing that I’ve been talking about. To name it more explicitly, MDFS BDSM, not as bedroom games, but as ideology. There are smoking guns here.
And beyond endocytosis is phagocytosis, the digestion or destruction of the ingested particle.
I agree about MDFS (presumably Male Dominant Female Submissive) as ideology is worse than problematic. It’s putting a penny in the fusebox so far as abuse is concerned.
Is there a LessWrongian term for a self-sustaining blind spot?
Interesting point about to what extent fandom is a thing, or more generally, any diverse bunch of human social systems which are sort of under one name are a thing.
There ought to be one, given that there have been lots of posts about them like this one which are often mentioned.
(I’m being deliberately vague about whether by ought to I mean ‘is likely’ or ‘had better’. :-))