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'Negging' is a seriously sly flirting technique - but what even is it?
EVER RECEIVED A compliment but immediately afterwards thought, “HEY!”? You’ve been negged.
A ‘neg’, or a deliberate backhanded compliment, is a technique used by pick-up artists in their attempts to attract women.
The pick-up artist website seductionscience.com (tagline: “Get girls fast, for smart guys”) suggests the following lines as good ‘negs’:
Weird, right? And definitely not easily confused with your average flirty banter.
The idea is that the girl’s confidence will be knocked, and she’ll be so bowled over by the guy’s indifference to her, that she’ll try extra hard to impress him. Or, in pick-up artist speak, she’ll disengage her ‘bitch shield‘.
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And according to this article from the New Statesman, it has occasionally worked. A woman called ‘Rebecca’ told writer Nicky Woolf:
Grim, but at least now you’ll be able to spot a neg from a mile off. Godspeed.
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