Letters to the Editor
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Boy am I stupid
I actually listened to all those people who told me to just be myself and to treat others as you would like them to treat you.
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great
Can you please not offer this guy anymore validation? There's already far too many assholes at every bar doing lame magic tricks and "negging girls out" already.
I don't care how many women this guy sleeps with or how much money he makes. The dude is a loser.
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Hey Salon
I'm not even sure where to begin. Just because something is perverse doesn't mean it should get an article. There really ought to be something else to recommend a topic. OK?
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Oh that's very funny.
Von Markovik pulled all that stuff of his technique on Tracy Clark-Flory. I wonder if she felt seduced. At least she let him shine though as . . . shallow, very shallow. Maybe he is better when he has the advantage of smoke and mirrors.
I did notice one thing fellas before I even read the article. He ain't ugly. Although he seems to be stuck in a Goth phase, he is an attractive guy. Can he teach that?
Umm. Doubtful.
Now let's send him off to Stacey and Clinton of "What Not to Wear" so he can learn to get dressed. I have to say that despite the mesmerizing eyes, if I were 25 and some guy came toward me dressed like that all I would do is get out the camera like a tourist at Disneyland. No way would I sleep with him. He's a walking neg.
Maybe he meant to do that -- to disarm all of Salon by looking stupid.
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Well ladies, there you have it..
If you want to be invulnerable to these kind of emotional manipulations for the purpose of an inscrupulous man getting laid:
1. Work on your sense of self-worth. You have nothing to prove to anyone, and if they call that into question they are not worth your time and trying to manipulate you. Work on your emotional issues and insecurities - they push your buttons to get you dancing like a puppet right into bed. Do you really want anyone who questions your worth, or pushes your buttons? Own your self-worth, love and respect yourself, and you will find a man who does the same.
2. Provide yourself with your own sense of security financially and safety wise, it's very empowering and allows you to pick and choose who you are with for the quality of the man himself, not fear based needs.
3. Stop this competition B.S. that women do with eachother and embrace the sisterhood, there is strength and solidarity in numbers. If you have to compete, then he's the wrong man for you. Why would you want a man who doesn't know that you're the best woman in the world?
Oh and MEN, there ARE women who like integrity, honesty, and good hearts, as well as being sexed to high heaven. You just gotta stop focusing on physicalily and living in your head so much (that distracts you and it's easy for unscrupulous women to work you) and develop some discernment and start seeing women as people with their own needs and issues instead of objects for your desire, that way you can tell the snakes from the good ones. Also, not being afraid of your emotions and getting to know them helps you to know and understand women. I'm not saying you gotta pull the "mr sensitivity" act and bawl all the time, I'm saying developing some emotional IQ helps a great deal, (you do that by FEELING your emotions, not just in analyzing them) and women won't seem to be so mysterious and treacherous.
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Que?
"Oh and MEN, there ARE women who like integrity, honesty, and good hearts, as well as being sexed to high heaven. You just gotta stop focusing on physicalily and living in your head so much .... Also, not being afraid of your emotions and getting to know them helps you to know and understand women. I'm not saying you gotta pull the "mr sensitivity" act and bawl all the time, I'm saying developing some emotional IQ helps a great deal, (you do that by FEELING your emotions, not just in analyzing them) and women won't seem to be so mysterious and treacherous."
What in the name of high heaven are you jabbering about? I don't know what kinds of men you are hanging with that makes it seem reasonable to go on like this. Do men think women are treacherous and mysterious? Maybe I have been missing out on a significant part of being a man then.... Benedict Arnold in a dress you say? Wasn't that Jefferson Davis? With your urging for men to develop the 'emotional IQ' I'm thinking you plagiarized this letter from an Elle magazine, circa 1982.
Now, while I find this Mystery guy to be highly annoying, at least he is probably less of a huckster than Dr. Phil. Generally speaking, though, if someone approached me suggesting that the way to get me some luvin' was to wear makeup, fuzzy hats and a jacket that looks like some sort of insect exoskeleton (peacocking... or cockroaching?), I'd probably ignore him no matter what anyone else said about his success rate. A quick perusal of the videos posted makes me think perhaps there is another kind of science at work. As I once said to a friend of mine while recounting a sexual exploit of mine own: Booze is an amazing thing.
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Useless neon wishful-thinking twaddle
Here we have it from Neon:
1. Work on your sense of self-worth. ... Do you really want anyone who questions your worth, or pushes your buttons? Own your self-worth ... blah blah blah
Work on your sense of self-worth? Deep. Women want the best men around - these decisions are not made on an intellectual level. They want the man who can fight the other men and win. The most successful woman executive around wants a MAN, not Alan Alda to come home to. "Own your self-worth" ... can you get any more banal?
2. Provide yourself with your own sense of security financially and safety wise, it's very empowering and allows you to pick and choose who you are with for the quality of the man himself, not fear based needs.
Actually, not bad ideas.
3. Stop this competition B.S. that women do with each other and embrace the sisterhood,
You are either a man or an idiot or both. Women love to steal men from each other. Women believe that if a man is any good, he will have been snagged already. If he is actually single and available for any amount of time, there must be some fatal flaw. Sisterhood, from what I've observed over the decades, flies right out the window when men or money are involved.
4. blahblahblah ad infinitum ... women won't seem to be so mysterious and treacherous.
Women are mysterious. Treacherous? When needed. As it should be.
I see all the wimps and feministas are up in arms about this article already ... you all should get together, take off your clothes, jump in a hot sweaty pile.
As I wrote on my own site (link below) some time back about attraction, I have been both asshole and nice guy in years past. Nice guy (listens to her problems, is sympathetic, polite, etc.) almost without fail gets relegated to friend status. Asshole (showing up drunk once or twice a month and rapping loudly on her window after the bars close) gets welcomed into her warm bed.
You can argue all you want, but biology always, always, ALWAYS trumps ideology and fuzzy-wuzzy feminist wishful thinking.
But I think Mystery is a prick anyway, even if what he says is mostly dead on.