30 May 2016

Negging

Negging is a rhetorical strategy whereby a person makes a deliberate backhanded compliment or otherwise insulting remark to another person in order to undermine his or her confidence in a way that gains approval. The term was coined and proscribed by the seduction community. The term has been popularized in social media and mainstream media. The opposite of negging, whereby one pays a person a compliment in order to gain their affection has been referred to as “pozzing”.

Origin

From the word ‘negative’.

Contemporary Example

To find out if negging works with gender roles reversed, I convinced my friend Andrea (OK, she actually volunteered) to come along on a bar crawl where we picked out the best looking, cockiest dudes we could find and gently insulted them to see how they’d react.
I Flirted With Men Using ‘Negging’ At A Bar And Here’s What I Found Out
http://thoughtcatalog.com/danielle-page/2015/04/i-flirted-with-men-using-negging-at-a-bar-and-heres-what-i-found-out/

Today’s quote

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

– Voltaire

On this day

30 May 1778 – death of François-Marie Arouet, better known as Voltaire. French enlightment writer, historian and philosopher. A man of wit who advocated freedom of religion, freedom of expression and separation of church and state. Voltaire wrote more than 20,000 letters, 2,000 books and pamphlets. He criticised intolerance, religious dogma and social institutions. Born 21 November 1694.

30 May 1911 – death of Milton Bradley, U.S. board-game maker, credited with launching the board-game industry. Born 8 November 1836.