‘Choking Girls All Around The World’ Seminar Ends In Australia Amid Protests

[demmiblue]

Source: Think Progress

Self-proclaimed “date coach” Julien Blanc has cancelled his seminar tour in Australia and left the country after officials revoked his visa in light of online protests that highlighted his longtime promotion of abusive behavior against women.

In recent months, Blanc, a representative of global dating help company Real Social Dynamics, attained a following of men desperate for companionship through his “Ph.D. in female attraction” program. The dating strategy Blanc touts in online videos and in-person sessions centered on the use of force and disregard of consent as a means of gaining a woman’s attention.

The Australia leg of Blanc’s world tour — which would have lasted until December — included a seminar on a boat in Melbourne. On Friday, Australian officials confirmed Blanc and his assistant’s overnight departure during a news conference.

“The matter was raised with us and we had it investigated and this fellow looked at,” Australian Immigration Minister Scott Morrison said, according to The Guardian. “This guy wasn’t putting forward political ideas, he was putting forward abuse that was derogatory to women and that’s just something, those are values abhorred in this country.”

Blanc took things further when he put his words into action through his social media campaign, #ChokingGirlsAllAroundTheWorld, a compilation of graphic photos that show him choking women. A viral YouTube video also follows Blanc as he wrings a Japanese woman’s neck and pushes it toward his pelvic area during a walk through the streets of Tokyo.

Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/health/2014/11/07/3590366/julien-blanc/

[LawDeeDah]

1. raw sewage would be embarrassed by this asshole.

[Rex]

2. What a disgusting pig.

He really needs a date with the court systems.

[shenmue]

3. Where I come from

we call that assault and battery.

[Odin2005]

4. I bet he is a Reddit Red-Piller.

[NaturalHigh]

8. Okay, I know I'm going to regret this...

but what is a "Reddit Red-Piller"? I have seen that term (or something like it) used a few times, and I have no idea what it means.

[Odin2005]

13. Misogynist assholes who think what women REALLY want...

is a macho asshole "alpha male" and those of us who actually treat women as humans beings are "beta as fuck". They also like trying to justify fucking 12yo girls.

"Red Pill" is a Matrix reference, they think they have "taken the red pill" and see "reality" as opposed to "the politically correct truths of academia".

They are some of the worst creeps out there.

[smirkymonkey]

19. They are disgusting and I wouldn't touch one of them

with a 10 foot pole. What they call "Beta Males" I call dating material.

Jerks! And this guy should just be shot, IMO.

[Odin2005]

20. They are connnected with a greater "neo-reactionary" movement...

...called the "Dark Enlightenment". They are literal fascists. Racist, Misogynist, Eugenicist, and want a STEM worker aristocracy.

[Liberal_in_LA]

5. sick monster

[AZ Progressive]

6. This guy deserves to be tied to a chair, slapped and beaten

See what its like to be treated that way. What a fucking asshole.

[Shankapotomus]

7. From what I understand of it

the PUA community boils down to strategies for tapping into the animal intelligence and/or fantasies of women in order to gain sexual and social advantages.

They also seem oblivious as to how risky, desperate and awkward this can get and how badly they can fail at it depending on how perceptive and intelligent their target.

Unfortunately, the majority of humanity (both women and men) are, to some extent, still guided by their animal intelligence and cultural fantasies and fall prey to this kind of game, both by participating and by responding to its tactics.

[NaturalHigh]

10. Another question that I will likely regret:

What is "the PUA community"?

[Delphinus]

11. I was curious too -

Pick-up Artists Community.

[NaturalHigh]

12. Thanks.

Apparently I missed this trend. Just getting old, I guess.

[geek tragedy]

14. Excuse me no women are not animals who respond

positively to men assaulting them.

Speaking of people who buy fantasies.

[Shankapotomus]

15. You seem to have not understood my post

Animal intelligence is not something exclusive to women and, actually, humans are indeed part of the animal kingdom.

[geek tragedy]

16. You think women are programmed to and do respond

favorably to sexual assault?

[Shankapotomus]

18. I wouldn't call it positive

I think both parties, in however much they both engage in this kind of interaction willingly, are pretty foolish.

Do I think evolution can create members of a species who make the wrong choices? No. I think group selection does that...which is by no means automatic...the culture can exert a strong influence that warps people's judgement and behavior...but there are some more mild innate behaviors and biases all of us are susceptible to if we don't make the effort to consciously override thousands of years of natural selection...certainly there are traits men and women unconsciously are both looking for in each other that influence our choices...

there have been tests done that show what both men and women are more likely to respond to and often they will correspond to just what we might expect pre-modern humans might have been concerned in securing for themselves even if such traits or behaviors have little effect on our survival today...I believe scientists call it something like "ghost dancing"... It's when an animal species plays out and old "script" of behavior written out over thousands of years and repeated by so many generations we don't even realize we are doing it and that it is of little use to us today.

[NickB79]

17. Yet "50 Shades of Grey" sold millions of copies

Which is basically just a novel of rape fantasy and assault.

[davidn3600]

23. A lot of women have fantasies of being dominated in the bedroom

A rape fantasy, for example, is the most common sexual fantasy among women.
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/psyched/200805/why-do-women-have-erotic-rape-fantasies?tr=MostViewed

Why do you think romance novels that have rape themes in them fly off the shelves? Women buy those stories like crazy. Look how popular "50 Shades of Gray" is.

[geek tragedy]

24. Are you familiar with the difference between

reading a book and being sexually assaulted?

[Brickbat]

9. You guys, how is he supposed to get laid if he isn't allowed to say "hi" OR strangle her?

[PCIntern]

21. If someone did that to my daughter he'd need a visa very quickly….

the safest place for him might be a police station, Liberia, or Sierra Leone. Even then...

[hunter]

22. If some guy did that to a woman in my family she'd probably remove him from the gene pool...

... before any male relative had time to put down his beer.

Remember, guys, you don't have to die to win a Darwin Award.