Comment by zazzlekdazzle on 03/02/2014 at 23:14 UTC

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There are TEN subs set-up just based on being anti-PUA?

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Comment by [deleted] at 04/02/2014 at 00:48 UTC*

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They're not based on being anti-PUA, they're anti-PUA either due to various factors of their readership and/or moderator policies. The only one I see that's arguably *based* on being anti-PUA is /r/TheBluePill. I'm considering being based on being anti-PUA, and being anti-PUA as a coincidence of the subreddit two different things; based on being anti-PUA would mean that the sub's main subject matter is talking about how terrible PUAs are. Let me do a rundown of x-posts I found by searching this comic's URL[1]:

1: http://www.reddit.com/submit?url=http%3A%2F%2Fxkcd.com%2F1325%2F

/r/TwoXCromosomes: subject matter is just being a woman, and most subscribers are (supposedly) women. They'll be anti-PUA because... well... I'm just gonna say if you find a group of women (or... probably any sufficiently large group of people) and ask them "what do you think about pick up artists" they'll say that PUAs are pigs and awful people. Anti-PUA, but not anti-PUA based.

/r/Feminism: I don't need to explain this do I? Of course they're anti-PUA but the sub wasn't started to fight PUAs. Anti-PUA, but not anti-PUA based.

/r/AgainstMensRights: Not based on being anti-PUA, but based on being anti /r/MensRights... whose members seem to have a tendency towards pro-PUA. Anti-PUA, but not anti-PUA based.

/r/TrollXCromosomes: See /r/TwoXCromosomes.

/r/GeekFeminists: see /r/Feminism.

/r/SRSFunny and /r/SRSComics: If you're unfamiliar with the SRS Fempire, they exist to point out the various displays of isms on reddit. They behave like Tumblr SJWs, but whether or not they hold the views they preach is never quite so easy to say for sure. Anyway, misogyny is they're big one, and I think that if PUAs want to refer to women as HB(1-10) (e.g. HB8 means "girl who's an 8 out of 10"), I think that the Fempire is gonna take issue. Anti-PUA, but not anti-PUA based

/r/MensRights: I guess this could be pro-PUA? It shouldn't be but I've heard that there is a fair amount of pro-PUA sentiment there. I'll call them neutral.

/r/TheRedPill: Alright, there's the pro-PUA one.

And the rest pretty much go on to be PUA neutral, or anti-PUA but not based on being anti-PUA.

So, I see 8 maybe 9 you can call anti-PUA, one you can call based on being anti-PUA, and one you can call pro-PUA.

TL;DR: Word choice matters, and Adderall is one helluva drug. There are quite a lot of subs that are anti-PUA, but beyond /r/TheBluePill I don't know of any that focus entirely on being anti-PUA.