A Pick Up Artist or PUA is a member of a subculture (the Seduction Community) that teaches men tactics to seduce women.

Feminist critiques of Pick Up Artistry include:

• some of the stereotypes of women promoted are quite sexist and racist
• many PUA techniques treat women as almost completely interchangable with each other
• many PUAs themselves treat women as almost completely interchangable with each other
• some PUA techniques and PUAs themselves are actively predatory and abusive
• many PUA techniques rely on heterocentric assumptions

See alsoEdit

• Nice guy syndrome

External linksEdit

• A Long List Of Ways The Seduction Community Can Make You Weird
• tigtog discusses the abusive history and techniques of PUA Dimitri The Lover/James Sears

"… what tends to happen in the Community is that one gender-stereotype is replaced with another: women as fickle, emotional, selfish and easily manipulated. The idea that sex demeans women remains, but is recast as sluts deserve to be demeaned."