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Okay, well my question was still not answered unless you're saying you should never neg but in the 'Ultimate Negs Collection' it included calling her a brat. So if she is actually being a brat and you call her out on it. Would that be considered teasing or negging? Or are they one and the same? Either way, I truly believe that if I did call her a dork when she is being what, it would be fine and I am not being an unconfident, self-conscious guy with low self esteem but rather I am being confident in that I am speaking my mind. So, yes you're right. I don't understand the concept fully because the definitions kind of overlap each other.
Furthermore, the famous line 'where is your off button' created by Mystery is used a lot by him. Did he create this line? If so, does that mean he has low self esteem because I believe he is very confident in what he does.
Whether it is a tease or a neg sometime depends on how you say it. When I call a girl a punk or a brat or something like that, then it's a tease, but the way some people say it, it is intended to lower her self esteem and hurt her, thus making it a neg. You're right, it's not a simple definition with clear lines, but over 99% of pickup is that way, so you have to learn to figure stuff out and come to an understanding, not just base what you think upon definitions.
Yeah, I'm saying Mystery has low self esteem. The fact that he can't let a girl talk and has to come up with a line in order to assert himself enough to get control of the conversation is a pretty damn good indication of that in my opinion. If a girl wants to talk to you, then you're doing a good job and you shouldn't have to tell her to stop talking because if you do have something to say, then she should be interested in hearing what that is because you're an interesting and confident person that can assert themself without telling other people to shut up. It would be a cute line if you used it very rarely, but you yourself say that he uses it a lot and that's because he feels the need to be the center of attention all the time or else he doesn't feel special, which is basically low self esteem in a nutshell.