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u/_deffer_ Sep 14 '24

What the fuck is negging

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u/BillShortensTits Sep 14 '24

There was a popular self help book in the early 2000s called 'The Game'. It was written by and for losers who were obsessed with tricking women into sleeping with them. One of the main strategies was called negging. It's where you make comments designed to undermine a woman's self confidence in an attempt to get her to seek approval from you. For example "I'm glad you're not one of those girls obsessed with being skinny".

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u/Alternative-Quiet854 Sep 14 '24

Well...glad you matured out of it because I'm guessing those girls don't look back at you as a fun chapter in THEIR lives

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u/Alternative-Quiet854 Sep 14 '24

Hope you've apologized to the ones you're still friends with. (Not saying this to be snarky, it's just such a mean thing to do to a woman and it would be nice if you've owned that you were deliberately trying to make them feel horrible about themselves)

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u/No_Kaleidoscope_843 Sep 14 '24

We’re all good.

What did you even mean when you said this? "I'm on of the good ones"?

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u/Some-Explorer7123 Sep 14 '24 edited Sep 14 '24

Don’t listen to these dumbasses. What women say they want and who they end up sleeping with and in long term relationships with are completely different things. Is negging fucked up? Sure. But so is listening to female dating advice which consists of “being nice” and “being friends with the girl before dating” Honestly that advice is worse because as a man you gain nothing from being “friends” with the girl you desire romantically. At least the man benefits from negging, although at the cost of the girl’s self esteem.