Comments on: Sex, Pickup Artists, and Marriage http://trueslant.com/conorfriedersdorf/2010/02/08/sex-pickup-artists-and-marriage/ [Please go to 'Settings' to change your Tagline] Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:55:22 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: miles http://trueslant.com/conorfriedersdorf/2010/02/08/sex-pickup-artists-and-marriage/comment-page-1/#comment-412 miles Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:17:50 +0000 http://trueslant.com/conorfriedersdorf/?p=353#comment-412 I disagree that a declining marriage rate necessarily means that women and men cannot find and secure long-term mates. I disagree that a declining marriage rate necessarily means that women and men cannot find and secure long-term mates.

]]> By: The New Dating Game » First Thoughts | A First Things Blog http://trueslant.com/conorfriedersdorf/2010/02/08/sex-pickup-artists-and-marriage/comment-page-1/#comment-333 The New Dating Game » First Thoughts | A First Things Blog Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:02:05 +0000 http://trueslant.com/conorfriedersdorf/?p=353#comment-333 [...] Conor Friedersdorf takes on Allen for her hasty adoption of the “pseudo science” of the pickup artists. And while he’s probably right to do so, his rejoinder ignores Allen’s references to evolutionary psychology and to Rossie’s mentor, F. Roger Devlin. While she derides the form it takes among the pick-up artists, her basic argument seems to be that evolutionary psychology explains the behavior of those involved in the culture, even if it doesn’t work. [...] [...] Conor Friedersdorf takes on Allen for her hasty adoption of the “pseudo science” of the pickup artists. And while he’s probably right to do so, his rejoinder ignores Allen’s references to evolutionary psychology and to Rossie’s mentor, F. Roger Devlin. While she derides the form it takes among the pick-up artists, her basic argument seems to be that evolutionary psychology explains the behavior of those involved in the culture, even if it doesn’t work. [...]

]]> By: The New Dating Game | Mere Orthodoxy http://trueslant.com/conorfriedersdorf/2010/02/08/sex-pickup-artists-and-marriage/comment-page-1/#comment-331 The New Dating Game | Mere Orthodoxy Wed, 10 Feb 2010 04:58:03 +0000 http://trueslant.com/conorfriedersdorf/?p=353#comment-331 [...] Conor takes on Allen for her hasty adoption of the ‘pseudo science’ of the pickup artist....  And while he’s probably right to do so, his rejoinder ignores Allen’s references to evolutionary psychology and to Rossie’s mentor, F. Roger Devlin. While she derides the form it takes among the pick-up artists, her basic argument seems to be that evolutionary psychology explains the behavior of those involved in the culture, even if it doesn’t “work.” [...] [...] Conor takes on Allen for her hasty adoption of the ‘pseudo science’ of the pickup artist….  And while he’s probably right to do so, his rejoinder ignores Allen’s references to evolutionary psychology and to Rossie’s mentor, F. Roger Devlin. While she derides the form it takes among the pick-up artists, her basic argument seems to be that evolutionary psychology explains the behavior of those involved in the culture, even if it doesn’t “work.” [...]

]]> By: Caitlin Kelly http://trueslant.com/conorfriedersdorf/2010/02/08/sex-pickup-artists-and-marriage/comment-page-1/#comment-323 Caitlin Kelly Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:57:58 +0000 http://trueslant.com/conorfriedersdorf/?p=353#comment-323 “it is actually beta men who are the greatest victims of the current mating chaos: the ones who work hard, act nice, and find themselves searching in vain for potential wives and girlfriends among the hordes of young women besotted by alphas.” Give those girls a decade or two and Mr. Beta looks just about perfect. If not, time to buy a sperm cataloge baby. "Alpha" rarely ages well. “it is actually beta men who are the greatest victims of the current mating chaos: the ones who work hard, act nice, and find themselves searching in vain for potential wives and girlfriends among the hordes of young women besotted by alphas.”

Give those girls a decade or two and Mr. Beta looks just about perfect. If not, time to buy a sperm cataloge baby. “Alpha” rarely ages well.

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