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GeoWilliam750

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10. His targets are very much those with low self-eteem
Sun Nov 9, 2014, 07:55 AM
Nov 2014

Young men who have no idea how to talk with women, or to earn their attention - much less affection, or to have a well-deserved sense of self worth.

They pay $3,000 (or whatever) for snake oil, and then do not understand why it doesn't work, but then maybe create a second set of victims as they try their snake oil on women - possibly raising the game to real abuse when they find it does not work (one famous example of this).

They do not understand.

To a greater or lesser degree, we are all victims and prisoners of our insecurities. Rock-hard abs, weight loss pills, hair restoration, hair removal, wrinkle remover, damaged hair, body odor, or whatever. Our insecurities are a gold mine to the less than scrupulous.

From a very early age, we are bombarded with thousands of daily reminders of how we are much less than perfect - it is a wonder that anyone in the world is functional at all. Whether it is getting men to pay lots of money for snake oil, or coercing women with low self-esteem into bed, Julien Blanc and Neil Strauss have made a fortune from it whilst proving that bullies with bravado usually win in the first encounter.

Not so much the second.


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