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Here is the link:https://heartiste.wordpress.com/2014/06/15/approach-week/

« Thought Experiment
Approach Week
June 15, 2014 by CH
Reader Jeremy suggests a way to get the game blog reader addicts off their asses to bust a move.

CH, I have a suggestion.

It would take the cooperation of other major manosphere sites.

If you want to kick the keyboard jockeys out of their habits. Then have an “Approach Week” where all comments sections on manosphere blogs are DISABLED. Leave everyone the explicit instructions to go forth, and approach.

Good idea. I’m game (heh) if at least five other “manosphere” sites agree to the terms. (Qualifier quotes added because I don’t quite know what constitutes a manosphere site.)

The ground rules

Approaching means making a first move on women. The definition of a first move is a bit fluid. For instance, a girl could glance at you flirtatiously, and you could take that as a cue to walk up and say hi. Or you could go in cold and open inattentive girls.

Vocalizations have to be delivered face-to-face so that your approach can’t be mistaken for the passing mumblings of a street bum. You may grunt or wink or belch if it starts a conversation. Approaching does NOT mean staring at a girl and turning away satisfied that she registered your existence.

Comments will be disabled during the chosen “approach week” to motivate bleary-eyed keyboardists into a pair of pants and out of doors to say something to women. Go forth, and approach, as the Good Lord might say in an era when straight up multiplying will get you slapped with child support payments.

Posting may continue during Approach Week. Either the post title or the top of any post published during Approach Week will include a disclaimer that comments are off to honor the spirit of the Approach. (For example: Comments are disabled during Approach Week to encourage readers to limit their internet time and go outside to apply the lessons they have learned here.)

Off the top o’ me scruffily precocious head, here are five manosphere sites which write about game and pickup that might be interested in participating: Return of Kings, Rational Male, Danger & Play, Krauser, Alpha Game. I’m certain there are plenty of sites I’m missing, so if you’re one of them and you like this idea let us know in the comments and we’ll hammer this thing out.

If your broadsheet is listed here and you’re not interested, don’t worry about it. It won’t be skin off anyone’s nose.

Approach Week should happen sometime within the next two months, while the sun is high and the girls are barely clothed. Pending any objections, let’s set aside the holiday week of June 29-July 5 as Approach Week.

Post-Approach Week, CH will dedicate a day to you readers when you may share your experiences in the comments of an open post.

PS If something akin to Approach Week has already been done by other game blogs at other times, disregard this post. The remix is never as good as the original.

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I think most of the guys reading RVF don't need this.

Post: #3

I was thinking the same. Heartiste is now a bunch of keyboard jockeys and race trolls. I doubt even 10% of them actually cold approach in real life.

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I think, with the exception of a few newbies, just about everyone on this forum has figured out the approach. We all do it, we have to do it, and we all realize why it's necessary. As much as I see a lot of keyboard jockeys on some of the sites in the manosphere, I think it's the guys who don't comment who have the most to gain from approach week.

If I didn't approach girls, I would have just about nothing to add to this forum. Most guys who sit there, reading Heartiste and other guys, and don't comment, don't comment because they have nothing to add.

At this point, the information is out there. Telling guys to go approach girls isn't going to help them. They've probably heard it a million times before.

#Approachweek has the right idea, but at the end of the day, these guys need to want it for themselves, rather than having Heartiste tell them to do it. If you don't want it, you're not going to be successful. You're not going to learn, you're not going to bang, it won't work.

There is no substitute for being out in the trenches. Yes, learning from game bloggers can help you learn and improve, but if you're not out in the real world, you're not going to be learning a whole lot.

Post: #5

I find Heartiste's idea intriguing. You have to admit that the rest of the world is not much like this forum. Visit the comment sections of most major bloggers (RoK included) and you'll see a staggering amount of "weird" comments from people who obviously haven't approached anyone in a decade, but live vicariously through them. We shouldn't assume that things are the same as here everywhere.