Calling that manipulation is just insulting the intelligence of women.
Acting confident, putting forward your best leg and trying to be attractive is not manipulation anymore than most other social interactions.
Especially since appearing desirable generally means your partner will have a better time. Few people have sexual fantasies about sleeping with a loser.
> Few people have sexual fantasies about sleeping with a loser.
More and more people seem to have lots of baggage from years of being used by PUAs though.
> Calling that manipulation is just insulting the intelligence of women.
When you see someone completely numbed to the constant casual negging from their partner, calling it what it is sometimes is the only way to snap them out of it.
We're all deceiving and manipulating everyone else all the time to some degree. It's one in a million the person that behaves 100% in accordance with their internal beliefs and values, and they're quickly ostracized or marked as eccentric and to be avoided.
My experience differs from yours. A good friend of mine recently used that word to describe me, and I genuinely took it as a compliment.
I believe that as a single dude who graduated into COVID, works remotely, and moved to a new state where the only person I knew was my roommate, I believe I have a fairly exceptional social life. I met a lot of people through a local maker space. The key is just finding weird people to be weird with.
I would describe myself and many of the people I interact with as being very genuine and true to themselves.
Acting confident, putting forward your best leg and trying to be attractive is not manipulation anymore than most other social interactions.
Especially since appearing desirable generally means your partner will have a better time. Few people have sexual fantasies about sleeping with a loser.