Hmm, that link to the independent didnt seem to make a joke out PUA. Frame, the only criticisms in that article are caused by two things:
1) they want to make it more interesting so people read it.
2) the person who writes it doesn't fully understand.
Dont even try and tell me the writer does know all about the PUA community because that's bull, guys can spend years here and not understand women, social skills or even themselves so do you honestly think he got the whole picture in the time it took him to write a back page story? Unlikely.
That article you linked also shoots your argument so hard in the foot it may never walk again,
Quote:
kind of central London nightclub where well-dressed, well-moneyed and occasionally well-mannered chaps think nothing of ordering a 1,000 round of drinks on a weekday evening. She's surrounded by such men, and yet the one she's exchanging phone numbers with is an unlikely charmer from the East End, who sports pink highlights, questionable facial hair and a pair of faintly naff, square-toed black shoes.
So the rich, well dressed (looks) and polite guys are being pushed out the way by AFC adam who isn't (as the article says) showing any of those traits?