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arcane1

(38,613 posts)
Thu Nov 13, 2014, 04:46 PM Nov 2014

‘Dating coach’ Julien Blanc kicked out of Australia for crude ‘pick-up’ schtick

Holocaust denier David Irving. Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams. World Trade center bombing suspect Bilal Philips. All have had their visas canceled by the Australian government at one time or another.

Last Thursday, “dating coach” Julien Blanc joined the list. A week after he arrived in Australia to teach a series of dating seminars, his visa was canceled in response to an Internet campaign against the self-styled “pick-up artist” because of his controversial tactics in pursuing his goal of sex with women.

Blanc works for Real Social Dynamics, a business that profits from a growing online subculture of men’s rights activists and pick-up artists (PUAs). They pay thousands to attend “boot camps” at which Blanc and others teach guys how to “game” their “targets” (PUA lingo for women) using tactics criticized as misogynistic and even violent. You might recognize the language and ideology from the manifesto of Santa Barbara sorority shooter Eliot Rodgers, who frequented PUA message boards.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/11/10/dating-coach-julien-blanc-kicked-out-of-australia-for-his-controversial-tactics/


The internet as a source of good. I love these stories

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‘Dating coach’ Julien Blanc kicked out of Australia for crude ‘pick-up’ schtick (Original Post) arcane1 Nov 2014 OP
When you put your hands on people it goes beyond crude... Kalidurga Nov 2014 #1
What this guy does makes mere cat-calling SheilaT Nov 2014 #2
I've never understood why anyone would want a woman dumb enough to fall for that PUA stuff. dawg Nov 2014 #3
Also banned in Brasil: Blue_Tires Nov 2014 #4

Kalidurga

(14,177 posts)
1. When you put your hands on people it goes beyond crude...
Thu Nov 13, 2014, 05:00 PM
Nov 2014

"Dating coach" indeed. More like a how to commit assault and get away with it coach.

 

SheilaT

(23,156 posts)
2. What this guy does makes mere cat-calling
Thu Nov 13, 2014, 05:06 PM
Nov 2014

look sweet.

Which it's not of course, but this guy openly advocates attacking women in public.

dawg

(10,624 posts)
3. I've never understood why anyone would want a woman dumb enough to fall for that PUA stuff.
Thu Nov 13, 2014, 05:11 PM
Nov 2014

I guess just for meaningless sex. I know that's the reason. But if a woman really has self-esteem problems, wouldn't just using her like that be an act of cruelty?

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