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This is America? lol Most GenZ I know have far better social skills than these guys.

This truly is the grift that never ends. 100 years from now it'll be the same shit, only with updated tech.

Hah, quality salt

Step 1, stop seeing women as an object to “pick up.” WTF is wrong with people?

Step 1: Stop being a fucking weirdo by talking about being a lion.

Men out here just wasting time and money 😭.

Yeah this is just creepy.

Great, now men can hone their harassment of women

Women prefer bears to lions, known fact. Also prefer bears to jackasses.

The trick, to the oblivious people out there, is to socialize with people without the interest of sex at-hand. Just be a person, hanging out with another person who you want to be friends with, and maybe don't worry about the sex until it's a relevant factor.

That's ridiculous. What on Earth has gone wrong?!

I think these men actually just need a course on how to talk to other people like they were people, and not objects to control or objectives to achieve.

Why do the guys that run these things always dress like shitty magicians

Pathetic

Mfer's that say "I need to be the lion" have no idea how lions operate.

if you treat then like people then you'll only attract normal women instead of the trad ones they always see on their instagram reels

I don't think they know how to treat other men like people either, tbh. Rivals, threats, heroes, but not just people. Patriarchy is a helluva thing.

Exactly—insane discourse.

Will every woman vibe with you? No. Will you slowly gain confidence and train your brain to not treat every situation like this as a life-or-death adrenaline pumping situation? Yep. If you keep it up, will there eventually be a woman who does vibe with you? Maybe, and that should be good enough.

Oh, piss off

Yeah, thank you; coaching is the wrong thing. I mean TEACHING and NURTURING.

To some degree these are things we have to learn. And relearn.

Hahaha did Mystery run out of money? There aren't enough podcast scam bullshitmaxxing incel culture guys?

Can confirm that's what we did.

just be yourself & speak with honesty

“Lesson 1-10: her eyes are up there.”

the sole instance where it's not a complete and total red flag to say "I need to be the lion" is choosing a fursona

Or you're a lion? Well watch all the women turn into cheetahs

Just be normal omg 😩

I'm guessing the kind of man drawn to something like this has zero trouble talking and infinity trouble stfu and listening to understand others.

Jesus christ no one in the newsroom said "Hey this isn't about conversation, this is for gross perverts?" Not one? I don't believe you.

No offense, I'm happy for them for trying to get their anxiety under control but "I need to be the lion" is some genuine alpha bro bullshit that people, in particular women, do not like

fuck you

The women in this video need to work a little harder to hide their expressions of contempt, frankly.

So much for being yourself and authentic when you aren't #normal Just change bro! People don't like you? Just fix the issue bro! It's so easy haha.

Damn, my way of doing it was usually approaching them and striking a conversation, if they were up for it.

'I need to be the lion' is an insane thing to say. 'Look, I'm not gonna hunt, I'm not gonna work, I'm not gonna look after any kids - but I am willing to kill to MAKE kids, so, you know, get ready for a perfect life'

That may be what their problem actually is......

They need to start teaching that in schools too, right along with Bible study. It's starting to sound like a cult.

directly injecting bleach into my neck artery after reading this

So its pick up artistry. Screw those assholes and screw you, CNN, for platforming them. Shame on you!

This is not a new thing.

And we have no idea why young women don’t want to get married.

"Be the lion" x.com/jasminericeg...

So you've discovered pick up artist seminars, which have been around for over fifty years now? You guys should try reporting news sometime.

Any loser who goes to this…

Don’t be a lion.

"I don't wanna be your lion 'Cause lions ain't the kind you love enough"

This feels like Ben Shapiro writing a book, "Lions and Scavengers," and at no point acknowledging that lions are scavengers.

Jesus fucking christ

Men need to learn to ask questions, not "be the lion" or whatever these PUA manosphere dipshits are telling them.

Why Lionesses Are the True Leaders of the Pride a-z-animals.com/articles/why...

How to talk to women: Step 1: Stop believing that women are some mysterious separate species and just be a person that other people want to be around

This is unbelievably pathetic

It’s honestly weird to me that this is being reported as if new. These “teach men to pick up women” scams have been a running trope of tv and movies for 50 years. There are always men willing to pay someone for the cheat codes to women.

🤮

act.eff.org/action/tell-...

Pathetic

This lame shit used to be advertised in the back of comic books

Back when the whole "pick-up artist" thing was getting big in the 2000s I could not comprehend how they managed to have so much trouble with this. I was socially awkward and scrawny and still found myself needing to come up with new ways to decline.

For subscribers only article. Like anyone actually wants to read this advertisement

Lol @ her awkward handshake at the beginning. Who he shakes hands like that? 🤣🤣🤣

🙄

incels desperately trying learn pickup line aren't "people grapple to recover a lost art: face-to-face conversation"

Fucking losers. 🤭

Source because you can't be bothered to type in the link: www.deviantart.com/johnsu/galle...

This isn't AI, this comic is literally older than AI

Bless you for posting this!

I was looking for the word "listen."

What the fuck is this rebranded pick up artist bullshit.... I'll give you a hint on how to find someone, don't be a dick and talk to them like an actual living human being. I get that this boot camp hates this one simple trick, but that's all it takes

Do you know what works even better? Getting a genuine hobby, and maybe a little bit of time talking to a therapist. These will help you be able to talk to real people far better than a sleazy pick up artist training.

Yeah, none of this sounds like a good idea

Anybody who has to be taught how to treat another person like a human being is a lost cause.

If you are the kind of man who divides things into pre and post "#MeToo" then women are honestly better off avoiding you

Crom on his mountain, a wizard going around turning men into ACTUAL lions would be better than this shit.

Pathetic.

ah yes, it's great to see frustrated men being told they just need to be more aggressive about talking at women and be sure to stomp all over boundaries to show how "alpha male" you are or you could just treat us like human beings? with varied interests and preferences?

paying for everything can imply a reciprocity is expected

The adequate answer to “picking up” is a knee straight to the crotch.

CNN pushing hard the American predator culture. If it only afflicted you would be bad but here in Canada a kid deep in US incel culture just shot two people dead, because he found himself wanting, trying to be that lion. Yet here you are, matter-of-factly spreading US moral rot like it's cool.

Perhaps start by not being a macho jerk?😏

This wasn't a problem until the "Alpha male" thing. Maybe just being nice and talking to us like we're people and not something to conquest would be a good start?

There’s a market guy every idiot.

It’s not a question of ideology. The one group bonds around their perceived inability to form sexual or romantic relationships. The other group pretends to have cracked the code of seduction and to be able to hook up with anyone. Sure they’re both weird and toxic. But in their own way.

As I said they’re both toxic. However, the “handling” part only applies to the PUAs. The incels have given up on women altogether and don’t believe in the “handling”, the manipulation techniques of the PUAs. Both groups are a product of the unhappy marriage of late capitalism and patriarchy.

You don’t need to be the lion. You need to ask her questions, actually care about how she answers and not ever talk about crypto or body counts

Anyone who even thinks "I need to be the lion" is gonna fail at talking to other people as if they're people.

“I need to be the lion” “Cool, meet my boyfriend the bear”

No man who goes to one of these is safe to be around. It's genuinely not hard to talk to women if you just assume that they're people. If you really need "a boot camp in talking to people" gender shouldn't enter into it.

We did this 20 years ago and it sucked then. It sucks worse now.

Ew

K I'm a gay man and I've been told by countless women I could hit it because I am polite, I ask them about themselves and their interests, and I respond to what they say in conversations. Str8 guys if you can't grasp that, you should not be reproducing #Darwin

more like chud news network amirite

It's probably a better strategy than anything in that class.

If women stopped responding, men would change the way they behave.

Face to face conservation is a "lost art" chiefly because of right wing pick up artist incel grift just like this. This isn't conversation; this is just fascist manosphere indoctrination. Remember men: Feminism liberates YOU even more than it liberates women.