A classic on lost love...

pop culture references on love

This guy has put up an article of love references in popular culture.to me many of them seem rather old but im sure somebody reconizes them.

Link: http://http//www.examiner.com/relationship-in-national/best-pop-culture-influences-on-love-and-relationships

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More Pick Up Artist Tips

I am a reading an article at a website called seduction tuition, entitled "Solid Game Formula for On Line Dating," by Neil Strauss. It is advice for creating an effective on line profile. Here's a quote from it:

"So I engineered the personals like I learned cold-approach game: one step at a time, until I felt it was foolproof. I can now, four out of five times, email a girl and take it all the way to the !close without a problem. "

This language is not only not romantic, it's also not sexy. Even if these guys were just lusty...they would use a lustier language. This is business. Or sports or something. This seems to me to have more to do impressing other men than with impressing women.

Here's one of the tips:

"For the picture, I don’t post an actual photo. I post a SKETCH someone has done of me. If you don’t have a friend with art skills, just get a sketch of yourself done by a street sketch artist or at a comic convention or something. This way, girls looking for profiles with photos will come across your profile, but at the same time, you’ll be able to hook them with your personality before they can just disqualify you as not being their type."


This does tell us something about audience, I guess. They are unattractive. Or they think they are. And they think women will disqualify them based on their looks. I wonder what standard they're held to?

Bibliography

Chaucer, Geoffrey. Chaucer's Canterbury Tales-An Interlinear Translation; translated with introduction and notes by Vincent F. Hopper. New York, 1948

Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Canterbury Tales; translated by Frank Ernest Hill. New York, 1935

Change of Plans (changed)

Just think about the themes we've talked about already: How we value women. How we value men. How we use gestures. The relationship between love and power.

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The Game

Okay, here are some things I'm learning from Neil Strauss:

First off, he uses a lot of language that might be offensive. (So if he's grossing you out, you can stop reading. Remember, your only job is to look at how your character would respond to his theories.)

1. The ability to seduce women is evidence of manliness and worth. In the Second Chapter, he describes his fellow pick up artists like this:

Put them on South Beach in Miami and any number of better-looking, musclebound
bullies will be kicking sand in their pale, emaciated faces. But put
them in a Starbucks or Whiskey Bar, and they'll be taking turns making out
with that bully's girlfriend as soon as his back is turned.

There are a few things that might connect with this. For one thing, he certainly seems to be saying that a prowess in battle is appealing. Is there anything in the texts you're reading that might support that assertion? Whether women really care about this or not, men certainly do.

What qualities must men possess in the worlds of your characters?

Also, Strauss does seem to be suggesting that he ability to seduce women is an admirable quality in a man, like toughness. What is the connection? How is seducing a woman like winning a fight? Are lovers rivals? Trophies?

That's what I got so far.

T

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