mASF post by "TheRoyalFlush"
posted on: mASF forum: General Discussion newsgroup, April 4, 2005

On 4/8/05 1:21:01 AM, Magnus wrote:
>I have been thinking about how
>best to help people in the
>community, and
>what they really need, and
>three categories of guy have
>stood out, each with
>specific different levels of
>skill, attitude, and thus with
>different things
>they need to do.
>
>Let me know if you agree with
>this broad categorisations...
>Which do you fit
>in? Do you think you fit into
>more than one category?
>
>1 - Social Retards. Guys with
>massive social phobias, fear
>of physical
>intimacy, personality
>disorders, virgins at ages
>well past the social norm.
>These guys need counselling to
>deal with other issues in
>their life before
>they should even think about
>picking up girls.
>
>2 - Normal Guys. Guys who
>have had one or two
>girlfriends, maybe lost their
>virginity slightly late but
>have active social lives and
>just don't
>understand women. These guys
>should absorb all the Double
>Your Dating
>material they can get their
>hands on, and then maybe take
>a workshop.
>
>3 - Pick-Up Artists-These
>guys can get girlfriends, are
>getting laid with
>a new girl every couple of
>months. They love women and
>are finding new and
>ingenious ways to communicate
>their value to women. Info on
>threesomes,
>MLTRs, other advanced topics
>are valuable to them for
>improving their art.
>
>I think the main problem with
>mASF is that Social Retards
>are trying
>techniques that will only work
>for Normal Guys. eg trying to
>cold approach
>when you have severe emotional
>issues. It's a waste of time
>when you
>haven't dealt with your
>internal issues.
>
>Also it bugs me that the
>Pick-Up Artists are probably
>being turned off from
>mASF by too many posts from
>Social Retards and the more
>clueless Normal
>Guys. e.g. if the Advanced
>Forum was restricted to
>certain members that
>might improve things. PUAs
>are constantly innovating and
>improving the
>technologies, and when they
>post about it here it's often
>shot down or
>disrupted.
>
>Magnus

I disagree. There is no cookie cutter model of a social retard, normal guy, and
PUA. IMO, There are varying degrees of each that people fluctuate between, but
are never 100% social retard or 100% PUA.