C. Thi Nguyen
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 7 Jul
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They're not competing for
Happy relationships.
I think that's pretty obvious.
But one of the things I discovered when I was reading this stuff, the sociologist Eric Hendricks, who studied pickup artist culture for a while, said pickup artists don't even compete for pleasure.
They're not even trying for pleasure.
One of the things that you find is a common thread in pickup artist culture is that you're supposed to get beyond caring about pleasure because that will interfere in your quest for higher numbers and more victory.
incredibly emblematic and incredibly tragic because, I mean, I thought when I started reading about pickup artist culture that I would find out that pickup artists
were evil and manipulative, but at least they were having fun and enjoying themselves.
And I found out something else, which is they're not even enjoying themselves.
They're miserable.
Many of them are miserable in the quest for higher scores.
And I think the examples are really revealing because what –
Why would you not compete for pleasure?
It's because pleasure is not publicly countable.
Like there's no way to verify who had more pleasure.
You make the claim, right?
The things that pickup artists are competing for are precisely the things that are easy for everyone to objectively measure in the public setting and then adjudicate in an unquestionable way.
Yeah, no, I have exactly the take.
There's a huge thing I want to say, but let me start by saying, while you're giving that example, I just noticed something maybe striking, which is I think people are really content to say,
the length of a marriage, like that number, obviously isn't the important thing.
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