Should an Abusive Pick-Up Artist Be Banned from Canada?
November 10, 2014
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Pickup Artist,
Rape Culture,
2014
“He claims that once a man has learned all there is to learn from Pimp, he will have a “PhD in female attraction” and will “develop panty-dropping masculinity.” On some level, it sounds like the kind of love potion you would buy out of the back of a 1960s comic book.”
Julien Blanc, shown with a horrible t-shirt to the left, and with his hand around his woman’s throat to the right. Photo via the RSD Julien Official Fanboy Facebook.
Over the weekend, a movement to #KeepJulienBlancOutofCanada gained enough momentum to be reported in the mainstream press. If you’re not familiar with Julien Blanc, he’s a so-called “dating coach” whose Canadian business partner Owen Cook (who calls himself Tyler Durden, since Fight Club is really cool) is well known for his role as the pick-up artist (PUA) villain in Neil Strauss’s bestselling PUA bible, The Game.
Cook and Blanc are part of a PUA posse called Real Social Dynamics. The RSD gang flies all around the world to teach men about getting women into bed. According to their website, they are holding a PUA bootcamp (where men ” go out into nightclubs, bars, cafes… and meet girls” with an instructor who monitors them) in Toronto in January.
Blanc also sells a package of instructional videos called Pimp. He claims that once a man has learned all there is to learn from Pimp, he will have a “PhD in female attraction” and will “develop panty-dropping masculinity.” On some level, it sounds like the kind of love potion you would buy out of the back of a 1960s comic book.
