by Fuzz » Mon Nov 26, 2007 4:00 pm
I'm starting to come to a turning point about negs because the way most people do them is just not congruent with my personality. But there are many variations on the neg, and lots of reasons for doing it. Even before I knew about all this PUA stuff, I found I would do it not even knowing what it was. It's just a natural part of flirting to tease back and forth, but in my opinion sometimes negs can transmit too much interest, and if your goal is to disqualify her then this is not the way to go about doing it. Though if she's showing interest flirting/teasing then there's no reason not to do it back. I've found other things that seem to work better, body language, facial expressions, things like that. Like everything it has to be properly calibrated. If I have to neg, I'll usually throw out "We're never going to get along" because it's not mean, and it goes along better with my personality. I've had good results with that. I am currently field testing a kind of smile that's supposed to transmit "I'm too cool for you," which is something I used to do unknowingly before I got into PU stuff.