She Went On A Bad Date With a Guy Who Used Pickup Artist Tricks On Her, Leaving Her Feeling Dehumanized And Disgusted
A woman who goes by @literallyhistoric on TikTok was recently listening to a podcast episode about pickup artists when it brought up a bad date memory for her.
Ten years ago, she got out of a terrible relationship and was ready to find a new man. On the weekends, she would go down to her local coffee shop and read a book there, hoping that perhaps she could meet a guy organically.
One day, this man approached her and asked about what she was reading, and it seemed dreamy to her.
He asked her out on a date for the following evening, and she was super excited about it. They grabbed drinks on their date, and when the waitress came around and asked if they wanted another round, she said yes, but he interjected and asked for the check.
Not only that, he stated that they wanted separate bills, even though he didn’t consult with her about this first.
She told him she felt embarrassed, thinking she was reading the mood wrong, and it was then that he suggested that they go to another location.
“Like, separate checks, like even if you wanted me to put money in for my one cocktail, did we really need separate checks?” she wondered.
But she was so thrilled about this date that she agreed to go somewhere else and have more cocktails with him, and the good time continued.
However, her date brought up a couple of questions in order to psychologically test her, and while she declined at first, she caved and allowed him to ask away.
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Her date proceeded to say if she was hypothetically walking through the woods and found a strawberry patch, how high would she think the fence would be around the strawberries?
She replied that she didn’t even picture there being a fence, so then he said she should picture breaking into the strawberry patch.
He questioned her about how many strawberries she would eat, and she responded perhaps four or five.
He kept on with his weird, made-up story, stating that he wanted to know what she would do when the farmer of the strawberries caught her in his patch. She quipped that she would issue an apology.
They wrapped up the evening, and in the days that followed, he texted her to invite her out on a second date.
That following Monday, she was in her office, thinking about how odd it was that her date had come up with a very specific made-up story as a psychological test.
She Googled the strawberry psychology test and found out that it was right out of a pickup artist’s handbook.
Apparently, the test is a way to gauge how easy a girl is, and according to it, her lack of envisioning a fence means she has no boundaries.
The test also says that her picturing eating four or five strawberries means she clearly has a desire to be with four or five people at the same time.
Oh, and since she issued an apology to the farmer, she’s carrying guilt and is a good girl on the inside. She felt bothered upon finding this all out.
“…It’s just so dehumanizing to be gamified in that way, to be a game piece in his stupid, little game,” she added.
“To go out with someone with good intentions and realize that someone is just like using tactics on you…but I was just there as a person trying to meet another person, and he was like, let me try this, this, and this.”
As she kept on reading through pickup artist tricks online, she realized their entire date was centered around these crazy beliefs.
Everything from changing to another location while on a date to making a girl pay for her own things were all the tricks she read about.
She found it horrifying that the whole premise of these tricks is that you have to make a girl “earn” things from you.
She wraps up her video by acknowledging that, yes, a guy can absolutely need some help with “small talk,” but to turn to insane tricks like this only makes a girl feel awful.
Do you agree?
@literallyhistoric
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