The Sexist Pseudoscience of Pick-Up Artists: The Dangers of “Alpha Male” Thinking

[chrisa]

14. Oh god. Not pop-pseudoscience (especially when it's for profit)... <__<

"Pickup Artists" are laughably moronic in the sense that they take an extremely simple concept (women like guys who they can connect with in some way) and wrap it in a cloak of pseudoscience and one-dimensional thinking (women as easily-led objects).

This garbage reminds me of stuff like "The Secret," where the main line of thinking associated with the philosophy is a moronic non-sequitur. Furthermore, there's nothing more irritating than watching people becoming armchair scientists in an area that doesn't call for a scientific analysis.

"Pickup Artist" 'science' is in fact contrived garbage that is as much of a sales product as "The Secret" is. Both throw phony jargon out to give the appearance of scientific thinking ('law of attraction' vs. 'Alpha'). None of it is real science (or even real, in my opinion).