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I'm mostly in the anti-PUA camp, although I'll admit I'm certainly no expert on it. The parts that deal with building self-confidence seems good and legit - no one can really argue with that. That said, here are the things that bug me about PUA:

-Everyone who spouts the philosophy seems to be convinced that all girls are basically the same deep-down, at least when it comes to what they are attracted to (see Vehn's "Women like men." comment). I simply don't believe this - woman are more than just a bundle of instinctual desires and some of them want different things. All it takes is one case to disprove the idea that they are all the same, and I can say for certain (or as certain as I can be) that I've met more than one woman who simple doesn't fit the PUA mold. Even if it's not truly misogynistic, the PUA doctrines never really seem to acknowledge that women are actually fully-functioning humans.

-A good deal of the adamant PUA supporters seem to carry really obvious scars from being rejected by woman in the past (before their conversion), and it obviously colors their outlook towards women. With all of the PUA tricks and techniques that get posted all the time, I never hear about any of them that are designed to actually make the girl happier - they all seem to be about asserting control and knocking down their self-esteem. While I don't doubt the effectiveness of that approach, I see no reason while being confident and in control would preclude actually being nice to someone. Surely a true PU professional would use all available tricks, but the trend towards demeaning chicks makes me think that a lot of PUA let their resentment get in the way of their artistry.

-For some reason PUA guy always seem to show up on unrelated message boards and spew forth a bunch of acronyms and esoteric terms to an audience that obviously doesn't understand what they are saying, without any explanation. It always strikes me as a lame attempt to get people to ask them about it.