lol! Dude... thats actually spot on because I know so many of these types of guys because I'm from a upper middle class background myself. All these guys, mostly white though not always, I grew up with in high school are like that. And, not gonna lie, I used to think there was something to the PUA thing.. luckily I always felt it rather artificial and creepy, I'm not good at acting myself.
Well, I think there is something to the PUA thing. If it didn't work at all, there wouldn't be so many people doing it, but like I said I think it's mostly a creepy, artificial, and manipulative way of doing what a lot of natural "pickup artists" do, which is be confident, charming, and just play a numbers game. That stuff does work. Not gonna work on every woman, but that's part of the numbers game and just asking out as many women as you can. It's just when PUA types do it it's fuckin creepy, pathetic and consciously misogynistic. The whole subculture they've developed is just plain ole weird and sexist. They got their own lingo, acronyms, cultural norms. It's fucked up shit.
Anyhow, I couldn't find anything by Camille Paglia on this subculture by using google, so I sent her an e-mail. Hopefully she responds.
You rarely see any working class kids stressin over shit like this.
Well, that's not entirely true. Working class men sometimes stress over gettin laid too, it just doesn't smack of the same level of desperation and weakness as often as it does with men of the petit-bourgeois class.
But that emasculation bit might have something of value to it. I myself have been hella into the "bodybuilding" thing myself since uni and still am and I would be lying if I said that overcompensating for being a nerd in engineering had nothing to do with it.
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Hey, the working-class has its geeks and nerds too. I know, I was one of them in grade school until I started socially developing better. One of my best friends is a comic-book geek who is a working-class Salvadoran immigrant. It's just that in a working-class environment I think you have a different culture, so it's a little easier for people to adjust because the working-class doesn't tend to do "passive-aggressive" much, so even as a geek/nerd, you learn to be assertive and toughen up as a function of necessity. Plus worrying about material concerns tends to reduce neurosis.