Re: Buy A Pencil, OJ

Will_Soh — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:57:29 -0000

I loaned Shareece Wright a blue book in a spring 2009 Sociolody 370 Midterm. I had him pay me $1 for it. Brian Cushing used my pen in spring 2008 Sociology 350. Rey Maualuga asked me which the easiest term paper option was in fall 2008 Sociology 353. The Sociology majors at USC get a lot of time with the football players and other athletes.

Re: Having Leverage On Yourself

Will_Soh — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 04:03:46 -0000

I like this post. It's nice to know that people who are successful at this stuff have faced a lot of rejection in the past, and I presume, still do. Some of the seduction materials out there set up the authors to be people who went from being largely unsuccessful with women to being successful 100% of the time. It seems from this post like I should not become discouraged by being rejected, as though it were a sign of my own faults, but rather a sign that at least I am trying the techniques and should continue to hone them.

I have not met, nor have I heard of, anyone so skilled with these techniques or skills that they never get rejected. A lot of people just don't mention their rejections. There are those two visible extremes in the experiences of men with women, the super-skilled, all-powerful guys who can get any girl they want, and the men who get seriously frustrated by the process and withdraw from meeting women and trying to do so. Indeed, the second of these two types is in fact more realistic than the first type. Yet, because of the discouragement of men in the second category, those guys are less-often heard about. After all, these guys choose not to mention their own loneliness, a fact about them which they perceive to be embarrassing. The first type, the players, if you call them that, is a media construction as well as a way that some men talk about their swollen egos. And of course, it's much easier to talk about successes than failures. When people reveal their failures, they open themselves up to criticism, and for people who already don't feel super-confident around others, they avoid the added criticism of the people to whom they would be revealing their so-called "failures" in the love department. At least that's what I see, but correct me if I am wrong.

Furthermore, many PUA techniques seem to find ways to avert rejection; however, the techniques do not avert rejection with success but rather teach guys to leave spots before guys get rejected. That is, when a conversation goes south, one leaves the group or ends it rapidly rather than trying to push through and make the conversation work and get a woman's number. So the systems have their own built-in mechanisms to move away from rejection. That is probably a good thing.

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