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By now you’ve probably seen the latest set of creepy PMs that’s making the rounds of the internet — you know, that series of sour-grapey insults some random finance asshole sent to a woman on Tinder who had gently rejected his crude sexual come-on. If you haven’t, I’ve pasted them in below.
Well, it turns out that this would-be Romeo is not only an asshole, but a wholly unoriginal asshole at that. Thinking that more than a few of his angry negs sounded vaguely familiar I did a bit of Googling and discovered that a couple of his more, er, polished insults came straight out of the pickup artist playbook. Quite literally.
That bit where he tells the woman he messaged that she’s “not hot enough to be acting like this?” An old PUA neg he literally may have discovered by cruising the message boards at VenusianArts.com, the website of everyone’s favorite PUA peacock Mystery, where one commenter described it as his favorite line to use with “highly egotistical women” he met in the club:
I tend to be particularly harsh with megabitches, because I don’t really care if they are responsive to my negs and get interested or I blow them the fuck out.My favorite line to blow a bitch out is “you’re not hot enough to be acting like this.”
I’ve used it a few times, and it’s great. You get to blow out Alpha style, and if you don’t blow em out, sometimes girls even go into check and cool it on the attitude.
Used this line on a 9 once, TRYING to blow her out.
We ended up banging twice that night.
Shiraz, no, that’s Mystery, the guy behind the forum I found one of these negs on. Not sure if the neg itself is one of Mystery’s.
There are hundreds, nay thousands, of books published by men through the years with these very male fantasy lines in them. Thousands.
RE: Shiraz
Are you in Cinci? Whereabouts in the Buckeyes are you?
Yes, thanks for the response, David. I read up again and noticed the caption this time. My bad.
Hath a fine lady like you supped at this inn often?
Yew caint say no to me missy! I own this town.
@LBT
Naw, I’m not in Cinci. Actually, if I’m going to round off to the closest city, I’d have to say I’m next door to Pittsburgh, PA.
A tangent: what’s up with the fedora hate? There’s a thread mocking fedora’s in the Jezebel article, and the recent article here on the “bloody feather” thing had an image of a fedora with a red feather. I’m guessing that fedoras have somehow become associated with PUAs and/or Nice Guys(tm), but how did that happen?
Wow… I’m with Katherine, trying to grasp “How the hell does a man end up so broken that he thinks *that* is an appropriate way to act in any circumstance?”
Baffling, to say the least.
Also baffling, why being from Maine would be a disadvantage in a potential romantic relationship.
RE: Shiraz
Bah! Ah well, too much to hope for. (My social life is still a little threadbare here, was hoping to find another local.)
RE: Matthew Cline
Apparently it (and trilbies, which a lot of people apparently can not differentiate) have become the fashionable thing for the young, hip douchewads of the upcoming generation?
Weird thing: I know a lady who has got it on with Mystery. The funny bit? He used exactly zero negs. He was all “You’re the funniest girl I’ve ever met, you’re great”.
It would have been awesome if we were in hanging-out distance, LBT. But it sounds like kind of a hike for both of us. That sucks.
RE: saphy
*snrk* Wonder if that’s why he got laid?
RE: Shiraz
Alas, alack. Curse my Midwestiness!
It’s Steven King, isn’t it? This guy peed his pants in terror when he saw Carrie on TV once as a child, and that’s why it’s not OK to be from Maine.
@LBT I’d imagine it works a damn sight better than insulting someone while wearing a stupid hat, yeah.
The reason Mystery gets laid is that he’s not bad looking under all the decorations, and he’s very tall, which a significant percentage of women dig. Unfortunately those are not qualities that he can teach to other men, so he teaches them irrelevant shit instead, and they eat it up with a spoon because they’re idiots.
Being nice to people: A good way to get laid.
RE: cassandrakitty
Everyone knows that Maine is asscube cold! It is NEVER okay to be from Maine!
(The times I’ve been there were pretty nice, though. I even handled spending Christmas there better than I expected.)
“Don’t you get that I’m above you” said after having sent 24 consecutive, abusive posts since she wrote to him for the SECOND AND LAST TIME…
Also this guy tries to find fault in anything but himself – even the city he’s in is to be blamed.
God, Sex and the City – I haven’t seen that one – is this a spin-off?
“You’re stupid, you’re ugly, nobody likes you — WAIT WHERE ARE YOU GOING? WHY AREN’T YOU FUCKING ME????”
I think I’ve seen that hat before. Like, every Digimon protagonist wears one.
Finance Asshole has clearly bought into the idea that he is a “high value” alpha, and women ought to be flocking to him with no effort on his part. Yet the flocking is not occurring! How can this be! It’s like the laws of nature are turned upside down! Obviously there must be something wrong with the women, they must be defective or something! The problem cannot possibly be in him!
@Matthew Cline
I don’t know if it’s related, but there’s a video game reviewer on The Escapist who goes by Yahtzee (real name Ben Croshaw I think) who wears a trilby. I hadn’t heard of it as a phenomenon before ZP became A Thing, although that may be a coincidence.
If it isn’t, I’m going to lol, because Yahtzee is kind of feminist.
And don’t forget, this ungreatful 6 is acting like an entitled “princess.” Because, as we all know, only the likes of Princess Diana would be snooty enough not to want his “meat” in her mouth.
(Oops, I just threw-up in my mouth just a little bit.)
This sounds a lot like many of the entries on Straight White Boys Texting: http://straightwhiteboystexting.tumblr.com/
@ Shiraz…I have fam in Pittsburgh, used to live around there.
Yes indeedy.
Yeah, my first fave hat is a woven paper fedora, I wear it often.
The fedora/douchebro association worries me. Douchebros cannot appropriate my hat.
…However, I did find a Brazilian Truck Tarp hat recently…as in literally found on the double yellow line of an intersection where I was waiting for the light to turn.
The tire marks on the hat just add character.
Aside – there are very few things that will make me want to touch your penis less than calling it your “meat”. Why do people think this is sexy?