679620, i'm just going to copy and paste what someone wrote on reddit here... Posted by amplifya7, Wed May-28-14 02:28 PM
>The last thing this kid needed was the Pick Up Artists >approach to valuing women in the world.
"I wonder if Elliot would have benefited from a decent PUA coach more than from those therapists and counselors. PUA has a generally poor reputation, and very deservedly so, but it is one of the few things that at least attempts to address the issues of people like Elliot.
I've never actually done it, but from what I've read, PUA coaches usually just "make" guys talk to girls and give them advice on what they did right or wrong. If he had had someone pushing him like that, he might have gotten some positive reactions and realized girls didn't hate him. And after he inevitably got enraged and started crying, the coach could have talked him through his emotions. This type of "counseling" might have been a lot more productive than just talking in the echo chamber of a therapist's office."
i agree with that quote 100%. Sure, as far as "valuing women", pick up artist literature objectifies women, but so do movies, music, and culture in general. Forcing him to approach and talk to people for the sake of eventually getting laid seems like the closest thing to a "solution" he could've had, since he was seeing therapists and took meds and clearly those didn't work.
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