Howell,
I don't think OP is as nuanced or careful about his wording as we are, so that's why I expanded on what I interpreted as his intention (and I'm sure he'll make his case more clear once he sees our discussion). You did the same thing, but we came to different conclusions. I do not think he has any harmful intentions with women. I have met men who I think are a danger to women and can spot them instantly. OP is not one of those men. And pretty much everything on Girls Chase could be incorrectly interpreted by some fuck-twad. I give my advice, even the most polarizing shades of it, with the knowledge that true lovers of women will not misinterpret my advice, and the men out there who would actually hurt women would do so anyways, whether they read some politically-incorrect statement of mine or not.
Howell said:
This is the same problematic attitude that underlies guys thinking negging is an appropriate tactic to use in seduction (e.g. putting your finger in front of a girls mouth and saying "Shh, be quiet, bitch." Even though it might work (usually for other reasons, not because of what you said), with beginners (or really anyone, IMO) you should not encourage this kind of behavior -- you are going to be misunderstood -- I guarantee it. Instead, talk about "curious indifference".
The problem with the negging, for most guys, is timing and non-verbals. If you walk up to a woman and start cutting her ego to pieces with no prior reason, it might work, it might; unless you took a time to read her from afar, insulting her is just a hail-mary attempt to garner interest. The result depends on your frame, her evaluation of you (is he hot enough to be saying this to me?), and her mood. Funnily enough, most auto-rejections from negging isn't because her ego got hurt, but because she sees RIGHT through the act, "who's this loser trying to act tough by insulting me?" Negging wasn't invented by PUAs. Men have been doing it forever and they start from a young age (e.g., pushing girls in the sandbox or stealing something of hers and running away with it). They just gave it a name. Girls allow it to work when it's a guy doing it at the right time and with the right non-verbals, and when it's not delivered correctly, it doesn't work. The best negger in the history of ever is Tucker Max and, well, go read his books and tell me what you think of negging. Or
this or
this.
Curious indifference works when the girls is locked in and engaged or when you're just opening. But if you're in a social circle situation and you have a girl acting hoity because tons of men are hounding after her, curious indifference isn't going to hook her. She probably won't even give you the time of day. You need a nuke. That's where being a dick comes to the rescue. Or if the situation is just luke-warm, being a dick (or anything polarizing) is a sure-fire way to take the interaction from "he's cute" to "k I'm dripping."
Furthermore, curious indifference is an attitude. You can be curiously indifferent and still put your hand to a girls' mouth and say "shh, quiet bitch." Roll your eyes, turn your body away, gently put your hand on your mouth, gently push her face (gently, gently, gently, gently - hopefully enough to not be misunderstood), and say it, and they laugh to yourself. A half second later turn back to her, cock your hide and smile, maybe even wink.
You only need to do this once or twice in a conversation and the message is clear.
Negging and curious indifference are not mutually exclusive; one is an attitude, the other is a technique. Chase's thesis was to shift men's attitudes and the techniques follow suit.
Howell said:
Focusing on encouraging negative emotions or tearing down the girls value is almost always inappropriate, not to mention tactically inferior to curious indifference and building people up.
The girl should know you don't take shit and are strong and will stand up for what you believe, NOT that there's a real chance that you would (or even just "could") hurt them.
Optimally, sure. But real life doesn't always line up like an equation. You might get into a conversation with a girl, trip up, and now she's testing you hard because she's unsure of your value. Being a dick for a moment or two to regain ground is often super helpful. As for negative emotions being inappropriate - dude, I have tons of field data that says the opposite.
Since our recent conversations prove that I tend to rub you the wrong way as a person, let me preface this question by saying that while I am making some assumptions about your skill level based on this discussion, I'm actually not sure what your experience is; I've never seen or read a LR from you, so forgive my ignorance or any presumptions this question may raise.
Where's your experience? Where's your data to back up your statements? We can go back and forth all day with abstractions about attraction, but if there's no substance to your side except for quoting Chase, it's just keyboard jockeying.
A smooth escalation that's nothing but cheerios and romance from start to finish is optimal, but it's not always possible and not a lot of guys can pull it off. Before they can get to that point, guys need to learn how to be dicks and enjoy the fuck-fest that is the jerk-phase. Sounds like OP is curving through it right now and drawing from his rough upbringing and benefiting from the polarization he gets from asshole behavior amongst all the pussy boys he's undoubtedly surrounded with at a top level university. What he's going to learn is insane frame control and the ability to give girls shit if they're acting up. Telling a guy the most efficient style with women is like giving a white belt a blackbelt and saying "hey, be a blackbelt." You gotta get that white belt dirty as fuck and you'll have a blackbelt in the process. The only exceptions to this process are guys who have been getting mad pussy since they were in their early teens, but even then, they have the potential to be assholes, so they must have cultivated that skill sometime early on. A few months back I was in a bar with a good friend of mine who's the sickest natural i've ever met and some girl kept walking around with this super stuck-up look on her face and completely blew me off when I opened her. I laughed at her and pointed her out to my friend. She walked by him and he turned slightly and said "what's your problem, why are you acting like that?" She got this super surprised look on her face and just latched onto him "huh, what? No I'm not being like that! I'm sorry, I'm here with my boyfriend, blabllbla" while she's holding on to him. I laughed my ass off, because I've seen hundreds of times from a first person perspective.
So, to wrap-up, I see your point Howell, but it's a bit too idealistic. OP is correct in stating that a tinge of fear is helpful to attraction and I think our debate right now is how we interpreted his short and vague thesis.
Hector