Talk:Neil Strauss

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Didn't he attend Vassar? Strauss attended Columbia U.

How old is him? Here http://www.elmundo.es/suplementos/magazine/2006/351/1150391961.html they say he is 42 years old.

as far as it is known the break up piece on the sundaymirror is not true. feel free to add it when there will be proof of it but so far lisa has denied the story. [1]

Deleted two references to a site called thundercatseduction.org for having broken and possibly malicious scripts.

Could be more specific in exactly what you thing is wrong? Because thundercat is related to style. Mathmo 19:45, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

Contents 1 External links 2 Article Clean Up 3 Break-up of Strauss and Lisa Leveridge 4 Bibliography 5 Self Proclaimed?? 6 "One year after he had joined the community, he published an article in the New York Times about his experiences" 7 Chris Powles was once in a porno movie 8 Nose Rape 9 A Totally Scientific Guide to Seduction

[edit] External links

im not too good with this whole wikipedia thing so i dont know how to do it, but i think you should mention that he is in sugarcults new music video "do it alone" heres a link for proof http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mdSE7d8Drk

oh and if anyone is on his newsletter list, that movie he was in that he talked about awhile back, it needs added.

Please do not add commercial links unless they qualify re Wikipedia:External links. brenneman^(t)(c) 02:22, 24 November 2005 (UTC) Neil is dating Lisa Leveridge, a hot blonde rock star girl who performs with Courtney Love.

• Not sure who died and made Second Sight the seduction community god, but Neil was, and still occasionally is, a Mystery Method instructor. Would you like me to get a note from him to include MM on his Wiki profile?

• His profile does include MM; it already links to the wikipedia articles on Mystery (seduction community) and Mystery Method. I suspect that anyone reading the article will go to the Mystery Method page if they are interested in it, and they will be able to find links to his site there. Since both those pages already have links to Mystery's stuff, and since it is Wikedia policy to reduce external links (especially commercial links), I removed those links. When you kept putting them back, I reverted your edits because you gave absolutely no explanation. Please familiarize yourself with Wikipedia:External links. I care because I am also working on seduction community related pages, and you are making my job HARDER if you spam commercial links everywhere. It will simply cause other editors to meet anything related to the community with skepticism, and make them more likely to nuke any external links related to the community. Is that what you want? In case you didn't know, the original version of the Seduction Community article was deleted partly because of commercial links. --SecondSight 08:18, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Article Clean Up

• Put the stuff related to the Seduction Community into its own section.
• The section on The Game was heavily POV, so I re-wrote the whole section. Statements like "Strauss’ biography of this period of his life is both sincerely intimate and suitably humorous. Though many who attempt to document life in such a way often fail, Strauss succeeds with great panache" and "Though the book is heavily male-centric, it doesn’t come across as chauvinistic or antipathetic and therefore should appeal to those who are merely curious about the secret society of pickup artists (of either gender)," although I personally agree with them, are way too POV and sound too much like a book review. Instead, the article should quote/paraphrase and cite actual book reviews. There are links to reviews of The Game on Talk:Seduction Community if anyone wants to use and cite them. I might do it myself, when I get around to it.
• Some claims in the article need citation (like the claim that some members of the seduction community called Strauss a traitor for writing The Game, even though it is true). I've found sources for two of the claims (that Strauss was referred to as "Most Powerful of the Jedi," and that he taught the major 3-day seminar for 5 students).
• Removed external links to Mystery Method stuff. The article already links internally to the page on Mystery and the Mystery Method (which already have those links), so there is no good reason to have them on this page also.

--SecondSight 23:42, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

• No citation is needed to make the claim that Neil is effemine -- nearly everyone who meets him thinks he is at least very effeminate if not gay. People who have not met him can just look at his photo and realize that even if Neil is not gay, it would not be unreasable for someone to think that his is gay when they first see him.206.59.61.187

Yes, a citation is needed to make these claims: Many people in the seduction community believe that "Style" is a homosexual who has not yet "come out of the closet." Strauss maintains that although he is very effeminate, he is not gay." You would need to cite a source showing that many people in the community think he is gay, and you would need to cite a source quoting Strauss saying otherwise. See Wikipedia:Verifiability. Until those claims are cited, I don't think they belong in the article, though I will leave them up for now with the citation needed tag. The only published article I've seen suggesting that Strauss may be gay also suggests that all the guys in the community are really in the closet. I've met Strauss, btw, and I didn't think he seemed gay. Historically, dressing or acting in an androgynous manner has hardly been unusual for seducers (see The Art of Seduction by Robert Greene). The fact that Strauss spent years of his life learning how to pick up women seems evidence that he is straight or bi, so it's been my perception that most of the people in the community calling him "gay" are doing so as a homophobic insult. Of course he could be gay anyway, but so could Mystery. So could any guy, regardless of whether he dresses metrosexual or not, or matches media stereotypes of what gay men supposedly look like. It's true that Strauss appears effeminate, but since, as you say, everyone can tell that from his photo, why do we need to mention it in the article? --SecondSight 18:31, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

Agreed. It just sounds like school-yard name calling, and without a citation, that's all it is. I took it out. --Cosmogee

First of all, I don't think being gay is a bad thing, so it is not name calling. However, you wanted a reference, I provided one.

In the same vein, some people think GWB is an alien. Anyone familiar with ThunderCat's blog will know the comment boards are mostly populated by 12 year olds with ADHD. I really don't see that you can use it as a citation. As for "he also writes articles on gay musicians" wtf? Enough. Come up with something credible, or don't re-add this. WoodenBuddha 19:23, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

I looked at your reference, and as WoodenBuddha says, it just doesn't cut it. It appears that the post you are referring to is the one by Evolution on Jan 29, 2006 2:34:45 AM. It's pretty clear that this guy is kidding around (correct me if I'm wrong). A few random comments on Thundercat's blog are NOT a credible source, and they do NOT represent what the community thinks. As you should know, the commentators on his site are mostly idiots who spend all their time gossiping and flaming each other, Thundercat, and any of the gurus. If Thundercat's site is to be cited at all, it should only be to his actual articles, not the comments. I'm removing the text again unless you can find a real source. As for Strauss himself has authored published articles about homosexual musicians. [2][3], so frickin what? OMG Strauss has written articles about GAY musicians!!! He must be GAY too!!!1!111 (P.S. the info that Strauss wrote articles for those musicians might be relevant for the page, if it was included in a way that made sense.) --SecondSight 19:31, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

Okay, you guys do realize that Neil did document a lot of the Game with posts in Mystery's Lounge, which would be considered a blog. He directly quoted some of them in the book. I know his book is published, and publisher would have to check the facts, but the only thing that they would have to verify is that what Style said was posted really was what was posted. They did not have to verify the veracity of claims made by the posters. So it seems to me that if Niel can use blogs as a reference, it is okay to use a blog where someone speculates (if he was joking, he was only half-joking) that Style is gay. But I won't post it again. I don't have time to get involved in a "war" over this.206.59.61.187

You know, 206.59.61.187, everyone would be much better off if you chose to personally deny the veracity of what you read on the internet instead of fagging it up for everyone else.VTNC 17:29, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

I think its important to note effeminate does not necessarily mean gay. I have a straight friend who is effeminite, and he is 100% straight. And gets more women than you could shake a stick at. I think using what amounts to (lets be honest) supposition from people who ..erm....dont seem to have a great amount of life experience ...is not a high quality reference.

Mystery's lounge is probably a lot higher quality that Thundercat's Lounge (where most posters don't even attempt to post anything serious or useful). What process Neil had to go through with his publisher is not the same process we go through on Wikipedia, because Wikipedia has no formal fact-checking, so it's not true that "if Niel can use blogs as a reference, it is okay to use a blog where someone speculates (if he was joking, he was only half-joking) that Style is gay." Furthermore, I'm not quite sure why we would want to cite someone joking around (even if it was only "half joking"). But thanks for dropping the issue. --SecondSight 20:29, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

Note: The Ireland times reference is suspect - it claims to be dated november 2006, a date in the future , and the link does not work

It says 11/09/06 in the artical. In Ireland, that means September 11 2006. I've fixed it now.--Richy 20:29, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

I think the link www.neilstrauss.com is garbage and even if not it should not be in the article so please remove it

[edit] Break-up of Strauss and Lisa Leveridge

None of the articles provided confirmation from any of the parties involved that Leveridge actually broke up with Strauss in favor of Robbie Williams. All we really know is that they had dinner dates, and that he is into her. Until some conclusive evidence is cited that Strauss and Leveridge have broken up, lets leave the tabloid speculation out of the article. According to this blog post, the rumors aren't true anyway.

I'm one of those taking the Stylelife challenge. Someone on the forum posted a thread where he said he met up with Neil, and apparently him and Lisa are indeed over. Dessydes 18:26, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

There are also claims on Thundercats website that Neil and Lisa are in an "open" relationship. It *could* mean (purely speculation ! ) that both sides are true, that Neil and Lisa are both still together AND she spent a few evenings with Robbie.

[edit] Bibliography

I've added a Bibliography section to enumerate all of Neil's published books. I know this is also discussed in the "Work" section, however, I've noticed most authors have a bibliography section that lists all their published books. This also makes it easier for readers to look up specific works. --PAT or JK 04:27, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Self Proclaimed??

It was actually a PUA by the name of Joseph Matthew, who calls himself Thundercat who named Neil Strauss "the most powerful of the Jedi", as told in "the Game".At the end of every year since 2003, he has held a contest on his website to determine the best PUA of the year. In 2004 he declared Neil "The most powerful of the Jedi". [4] 80.47.159.250 05:39, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

This is wierd apparently he's NOt broken up with Lisa [5]. Dessydes 16:04, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "One year after he had joined the community, he published an article in the New York Times about his experiences"

although he claims in his book to have been in the community for a couple of years or whatever, there are rumours he had been around since 98/99. Basically we are only going on what he says himself, nobody knows for sure..... [6] Mathmo ^Talk 20:01, 26 November 2006 (UTC) It is a known fact that Neil was in the community as early as 2001, as he has archives of posting then...and that is when Mystery's first bootcamp was.

[edit] Chris Powles was once in a porno movie

I'll dig around for a source first though before posting it, because most people probably won't believe me. Mathmo ^Talk 11:00, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Neil once said he kept his clothes on in a porn movie whilst researching the Jameson book. Maybe you are referring to that? Dirtybutclean

Probably is the same one, unless there are two? You can see Chris Powles referenced for it on IMDB. Mathmo ^Talk 01:56, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Nose Rape

IrishJew reverted an edit made [7] because they thought it might be vandalism. Weirdly... it is not! Checked out the videos [8], that is Neil Strauss in them. Though, if it is to be included might need to be rephrased a little differently. Mathmo ^Talk 10:16, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

I almost reverted that too. I guess it falls under "truth stranger than fiction." -- Ben 14:37, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

Ah, must have been more than once person who tried to add it in? Hadn't notice that, I haven't been watching my watchlist quite so carefully recently. Sure is "truth stranger than fiction", something a lot of people on XfD don't seem to realise which bugs me. Voting for deletion simply because they hadn't heard about it or don't believe in it, when a 5 second google search would show them otherwise (even worse when the nominator doesn't do the basic checking, had to deal with that several times over earlier this month with a whole bunch of bands that were being nominated for deletion). Ah well, such is life here on wikipedia. Was very surprised when I saw the video clips, is some crazy stuff being shown. Pushing the limits for sure! Wonder if this should be mentioned and the best way to go about it. I'm thinking just a one line mention and a link is all there should be at the moment. Mathmo ^Talk 13:18, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

But... Mathmo! This is so important!!! One line just won't do! I think it needs at least its own section and a mention in the intro. (The preceding was meant as humor.) -- Ben 14:27, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

nah, what you meant to say is that instead of en.wikipedia.org what we need to have as well is noserape.wikipedia.org, not just its own section but its own entire site! lol Mathmo ^Talk 17:56, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] A Totally Scientific Guide to Seduction

Just by chance came across on msn another article by him, this time from Esquire. [9] Mathmo ^Talk 08:22, 15 March 2007 (UTC)