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The techniques employed by mystery and his friends aren't really malignant psychological tricks. They're a response to social taboos and auras about the pick-up game. Why shouldn't people respond to the environment around them? In this case, it's about how to even the playing field.
So one of the techniques is tearing down someone's aura of self-esteem to bring them to your level...a woman has never perpetrated a mind-game like THAT before...
More likely, what these gentlemen are doing is using simple NLP techniques which create more open lines of communication between two people. Whether sincere or not, it can accelerate the feeling of connection or security with the person they're talking to. When applied by someone who is actually sincerely attracted to the person they're communicating with, it can be an amazing way to establish a connection and create a spark between two people.
The other problem with the response to this is that you're not giving any credit to the women. You're acting as if they have no mind of their own to deduce whether the person talking to them is sincere. You're acting as if they would be so stupid as to fall for any of these tricks. The bottom line is if someone isn't aware of how they're communicating, and winds up sleeping with someone because they were insulted and their self-esteem was shattered, well, maybe they deserve to be where they are.
There have been legions of books on how to pick up women, with various NLP and sleight of hand language techniques. I'm betting that there will never be any recognition of the techniques, language, etc. because in the end, it's the way people WANT to be communicated with.
