[Shane Forbes, founder of Wingwomen.com, a service that provides ‘”Wing Women” to accompany single men to bars and help them chat up other women] says the traditional wingman’s effectiveness is in decline. “Women are used to guys and their wingmen hitting on them,” he said. On his Web site, he argues that women “have developed reactive strategies to counteract the wingman’s pickup mission.” In response he sends women — hired on the basis of photographs, essays and interviews, and with no special training — to do what has long been a man’s job. He said that he has had more than 200 customers, and that his wingwomen have a “conversion rate” of 65 percent, meaning clients end up with phone numbers….Mr. Forbes said women like to compete and are “more attracted to men who have other women surrounding them because they want what they can’t have.”
Related from Razib: Check out my old post The Wisdom of Seinfeld for an angle on this topic from the perspective of ethology.
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