Acting confident, putting forward your best leg and trying to be attractive is not manipulation anymore than most other social interactions.
Especially since appearing desirable generally means your partner will have a better time. Few people have sexual fantasies about sleeping with a loser.
More and more people seem to have lots of baggage from years of being used by PUAs though.
> Calling that manipulation is just insulting the intelligence of women.
When you see someone completely numbed to the constant casual negging from their partner, calling it what it is sometimes is the only way to snap them out of it.
I believe that as a single dude who graduated into COVID, works remotely, and moved to a new state where the only person I knew was my roommate, I believe I have a fairly exceptional social life. I met a lot of people through a local maker space. The key is just finding weird people to be weird with.
I would describe myself and many of the people I interact with as being very genuine and true to themselves.
Semiotics is the better way to understand the complexity and layers of culture and philosophy that brought us the DSM-5 and “psychology”.
Start with books from Rollo Tomassi and Rian Stone.
"The seduction community has done more to advance the understanding of intersexual dynamics in the last 15 years than the whole of psychology and sociology has done in the past 150 years." – Nick Krauser