Excellent – so Brazil is another place that won’t be giving Julien Blanc a visa. John Morales left a link to this ABC (Australia) article yesterday.
Brazil has said it will deny a visa application from an American “pick-up artist” who was forced out of Australia last week after a social media campaign against his methods of teaching men to seduce women.
No, not seduce – assault and (if successful) rape. Seduce means persuade. You don’t “seduce” people by grabbing them and shoving their heads onto your crotch.
In a statement, Brazil’s foreign affairs ministry said there were “enough elements” about Julien Blanc’s background to deny him a visa.
Blanc teaches men to seduce women using techniques that include choking and intimidation.
Again – that’s not “seduce” – it’s more forceful than seduction is. That should say “Blanc teaches men to force women into sex using techniques that include choking and intimidation.” Choking ≠ seduction.
The 25-year-old, from US-based group Real Social Dynamics (RSD), was forced to leave Australia after his visa was cancelled in the wake of protests against his workshops in Brisbane and Melbourne.
If he had really just been teaching men “to seduce women” I don’t think his visa would have been cancelled. I can’t know that for sure, but it seems like a reasonable guess.
According to RSD’s website, bootcamp workshops in Brazil are scheduled in Rio de Janeiro and Florianopolis in January, at a cost of $2,500 per participant.
$2,500 to listen to a very unprepossessing young man give advice on how to assault women. That’s quite a scam.
“It’s very positive that the Brazilian government is reacting to this and saying this guy is not welcome here,” said Leila Reboucas, from feminist organisation CFEMEA.
“We can’t just accept it and call it freedom of expression, because it’s not.”
In videos of his workshops on YouTube, Mr Blanc advocates using physical aggression and emotional abuse to convince women to have sex.
One of his pick-up techniques to “open” a woman is to approach the target and choke her before covering her mouth to keep her quiet.
Mr Blanc shared a pie-chart designed to educate victims of domestic violence about the behaviours of abusers, promoting it as a cheat-sheet of his techniques.
The chart, published on his Facebook profile, shows “power and control” in the centre, and slices describing how to “use coercion and threats, use intimidation, use emotional abuse, use isolation, deny, blame and minimise, use children, use economic abuse, use male privilege”.
And it that doesn’t work, there’s always the shooting rampage. Elliot Rodger was reportedly a fan of Blanc’s.
H/t Eneraldo
I’m absolutely astonished that Blanc is only 25 years old. How such a callow youth has managed to make such a name for himself in such a repellent manner, I will never understand. I’m just waiting to see his name show up on one of those “Youngest Millionaire Entrepreneur” lists. Kid’s got some serious nerve.
It’s hard to believe that the odious Blanc’s nuts haven’t been crushed, on numerous occasions, by a well-aimed feminist knee.
Blanc arrived in Australia and then was forced to leave. That means (barring insurance) he won’t get a refund since the ticket was used. It’s not the airline’s fault his own actions led to cancellation of the visa. It’s reminiscent of Gary Glitter’s deportation and permanent ban from Cambodia.
The question now is, how will the air carrier respond, the one that sold him the ticket to Brazil? With any luck, it’s a non-refundable, non-transferrable ticket and he loses all the money. Failing that, I hope the airline has a hefty cancellation fee….just for him.
It wouldn’t surprise me if the tickets for his “seminars” are in-advance only and nonrefundable, even though the event is cancelled. Blanc is the sort of filth who would do that.
But Blanc’s nightmare scenarios are not that far removed from ‘normal’ dating in this culture. I’ve actually had women recommend PUA literature to me. When I showed my horror, they made the same rationalizations we’ve seen around Blanc. ‘Learning to be confident’ is NOT what any man in this mess should be doing.
It’d serve them right to lose their money. But I think even better would be to go ahead and hold the seminar, using his online videos, and have a police officer cite the laws involved in each form of assault and how much punishment each one could get you.
Good news from the UK though:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/immigration/11240765/Julien-Blanc-banned-from-Britain.html
Although *ugh* at the “appearing to condone physical and emotional abuse”, I realise newspapers have to be careful what they say so as not to get sued but yeah, come on, there’s no “appearing to condone” he blatantly does condone, encourage and engage in it .