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Looks like CNN decided to do a story on how nice guys finish last.  The author talks about (what should be) common knowledge about how women don’t like guys who are too nice.  She interviews a “dating coach” (aka PUA), then talks to Neil Strauss, the former PUA-evangelist, then she talks to Robert Glover, who wrote the book “No More Mr. Nice Guy.”

You all know my thoughts on PUA.  But what makes this article disappointing was that the author lumped PUA, a beta strategy for guys who have no empathy, with Robert Glover, who wrote a book expressing the simple idea that men need to stand up for themselves.  If you read what the first PUA says, he’s basically saying that it’s okay to be a jerk: