parties at Joseph's, famed for their tight guest lists and crowds of gorgeous
wanna-bes. "Brent," she said. "My friend Tyler Durden is a professional
pickup artist." Tyler waved his hands frantically in a futile attempt to signal
Courtney not to talk about it. "He picks up women for a living. It's really
cool." Tyler dropped his head into his hands. "Can you put him on the
guest list so he can come with some of his pickup artist friends and pick up
chicks?"
Courtney picked a strip of six wrapped condoms off the edge of the
sink and wrapped it around her wrist like a bracelet, then began exploring
the bathroom. She poked her head inside the two closets—Papa's infamous
guest bedrooms—that were on either side of the toilet.
"Let me ask you something," she said as she withdrew from Tyler Dur-
den's closet, which contained a suitcase, a pile of dirty clothes, and a mat-
tress on the floor. "Do you like women?"
On the other side of the bathroom's slotted windows, Cementjaw
dragged a sandbag along the brickwork of the patio.
"I wasn't a misogynist when I started this," Tyler replied. "But you get
good and you start sleeping with all these women who have boyfriends, and
you stop trusting women."
A side effect of sarging is that it can lowers one's opinion of the oppo-
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site sex. You see too much betrayal, lying, and infidelity. If a woman has
been married three years or more, you come to learn that she's usually eas-
ier to sleep with than a single woman. If a woman has a boyfriend, you learn
that you have a better chance of fucking her the night you meet her than
getting her to return a phone call later. Women, you eventually realize, are
just as bad as men—they're just better at hiding it.
"I got hurt a lot when I first started picking up," he continued. "I'd
meet an amazing girl I really liked, and we'd talk all night. She'd say she
loved me and was so lucky to have met me. But then I'd fail one shit test,
and she'd walk away and wouldn't even talk to me anymore. Everything
we'd built up over the last eight hours would just go down the drain. So it
hardened me."
There are men in this world who hate women, who do not respect
them, who call them bitches and cunts. These are not PUAs. PUAs do not
hate women; they fear them. Simply by defining oneself as a PUA—a title
earned solely by the responses of women—one becomes doomed to derive
his entire self-esteem and identity from the attention of the opposite sex,
not unlike a comedian's relationship to audience members. If they don't
laugh, you're not funny. So, as self-esteem defense mechanisms, some PUAs
developed misogynist tendencies in the process of learning.
Sarging could be hazardous to the soul.
Outside the window, Cementjaw held the sandbag as Mystery flailed at
it with long, limp punches.
"Harder," he yelled at Mystery. "I want to see more aggression!"
Beyond Project Hollywood, the whole community appeared to have taken on a
dangerous, unstable edge. Fieldreports became not just about meeting girls but about
getting into fights and being kicked out of clubs. Community members began living
vicariously through the drama taking place in Project Hollywood, as well as through the
distinct writings of Jlaix, a shotgun-toting karaoke-singing, Elvis-looking PUA whom
Tyler Durden and Papa had discovered in San Francisco.
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