A creepy list used by pick-up artists giving tips on the best public places in Melbourne to "target" women has caused outrage.
The guide, which appears on a controversial pick-up artist's website, is a "carefully curated list" of public places in the Melbourne CBD, with details of the types of women likely to be there, and tips on how to approach them.
The guide includes tips such as circling supermarkets, wandering shopping centres with bags to avoid detection, entering universities and libraries to meet young women, and approaching female tourists and offering them food, drink and a place to rest.
The men also discuss hiding their actions, calling crowded areas dangerous for picking up and calling Australia a "nanny state". The forum also discusses the age and race of women at different locations around Melbourne and Sydney, and if an area is likely to be "blown out" by the presence of too many other men. The men also warned each other of being too public with multiple public approaches of different women, saying "male feminists" are out to rumble their game.
I have included other venues for the sake of variety and in the event that these venues become saturated with men wink. The author of the list described women waiting in a university cafe as "open targets", saying if you sit in a certain seat in the cafe the women are forced to stand next to you while waiting for their order.
