Anonymous asked:
oh god what choices have I made in my life that have gotten me to this point
(epistemic status: I’m sure I have followers who know more about this than I do)
I think the answer is, it’s complicated? they are definitely in the same general idea-cluster. there’s a range of PUAs, with Roissy on one end (that end being smarter/more philosophical/more NRx-adjacent) and the guys selling e-books on how to get laid on the other. and it’s hard to answer “what does NRx think” when I don’t know that it’s really a coherent community now. I think a lot of the cool kids don’t really identify as #NRx these days and a lot of those who do identify as such are just like, obnoxious racist trolls on Twitter.
for an illustration of the latter group’s philosophical differences with PUAs see this twitter. main criticisms include “promote degeneracy and nihilistic hedonism rather than a Correct Trad Lifestyle of getting married and having white babies” (true) and “not racist enough” (debatable).