The Pick-Up Artist
I hate this show, but I can't stop watching it.
I've been watching this reality show called The Pick-Up Artist on VH1 (Mondays at 9 PM EST). It's the trashiest reality show since The Bad Girls Club, but without the drunken fist fights. Three bona fide pick-up artists tools named Mystery, Matador, and J-Dog host the show and teach a group of nerds how to pick up girls. Mystery is apparently the PUA king and I don't know how because he's creepy and he dresses weird. In one shot (see photo), he's wearing a beanie hat with huge scuba-diving goggles and (always) black eyeliner. The only things Mystery seems to be really good at are reading cue cards and e-nunc-i-at-ing every word. I also think he might be bisexual. I'm just saying, because how many straight guys use the word "lovely?" Matador is a Latino guy, hence the name Matador, I guess. J-Dog is a White, blonde British dude whose nickname doesn't quite fit.
The message they're sending to the nerds is (1) don't EVER be yourself, (2) be manipulative, (3) girls are a game (like a stalker and its prey), (4) finding one girlfriend is not good because you want a lot of options, and (5) go for the ditzy, hot girl who is way out of your league and "open her up." I'm still not sure what he means by open her up.
In the last episode, Mystery told the group that he met a girl in a grocery store and 25 minutes later he had her in a hotel room across the street. Naked. Then, he said, "Hey, I've got stories man!" Shut up douchebag. They use pick-up lingo which they posted on the website. That's good, because I kept forgetting what IOI's stood for (Indicators of Interest). In one episode, they made the guys put on speedos and go to a swimming pool to pick up girls. They said it was to help them feel comfortable with their bodies. Okay, no matter how comfortable a man feels in his body, he's not picking up girls while wearing a speedo. At the very least, you'll meet a girl and be her new gay friend. Although, even most gay men have too much class to wear a speedo.
It turns out Mystery has a company called Venusian Arts that teaches courses and runs bootcamps on picking up girls. They range from $1000 to $4000. So he's not just scamming girls, he's scamming men too.
This is from the Venusian Arts Blog and was written by Matador:
"I pulled a girl right out of her boyfriends arms last week in south beach and I did it without hitch…it is not something to brag about either…anyone, can do it with the right approach."
But, he's not bragging about it.
"In closed communities, such as small colleges or small towns where word spreads. If you get a reputation as a guy who is a player, who impregnated a girl and left, who beats girls, or does anything that would red flag a girl’s S&R value judging circuit, then they will spread the word about you and you will have to leave and game somewhere else."
It's true. If you beat girls or get them pregnant, it's best to "game somewhere else."
I found some interesting things on their blog. Especially the part on how guys can get around a girl's "anti-slut defense." Fascinating.
