Passive aggressive behavior is perhaps the most devastating psychological form of warfare that is consistently practiced in our social environments. It has proven to be such a powerful weapon that even the male seduction community has resorted to it.

The way passive aggressive behavior has been integrated into seduction techniques is through the delivery of what is known as a negative compliment. A negative compliment is when a you give someone a compliment that has negative connotations attached to it. This is referred to as “negging”.

some examples of “negging” could be when a man compliments a woman on her nail polish and then asks her if her nails are real. If her nails aren’t real, this will sub communicate insecurities within her that will create a pattern interrupt in her normal behavior–especially if she has mentally placed herself on a pedestal. Another example of “negging” could be if a man told a woman that a dress she was wearing looked perfect on her if her shoes matched it.

There are many men in the seduction community who do not approve of “negging”, even though it has time and time again demonstrated effectiveness within the realm of pick up. Due to the controversy that surrounds giving women negative compliments, the seduction community has invented a weaker version of “negging” that is simply referred to as “teasing”.

When “teasing” is used properly, it is still a demonstration of passive aggressive behavior because it activates a person’s insecurities in a joking and friendly sort of way. Even if the “tease” does not cause a person to be insecure, it almost always opens up a door in the persuasion process that makes the person whom you are trying to persuade much more susceptible to your suggestions.

But it would be a disservice to the power of passive aggression to limit its scope of power to the art of seduction. Passive aggressive behavior has been used by women for centuries to control men. Women have repeatedly used various forms of passive aggression in marriage to control finances, how their husbands spend their free time, and to control the entire household.

One of the most important attributes we need to understand about passive aggressive behavior is its long term power. A person who is consistently passive aggressive, if they are not held in check, will slowly begin to dominate their social interactions. They will, piece by piece, acquire more and more power over those whom they are being passive aggressive towards. So, the power of passive aggressive behavior can spread like a cancer if you are not careful. This means that whilst their will be occasions where it will be appropriate for you to resort to passive aggressive behavior as a persuasion tactic, that you should also learn how to recognize it so you can defend yourself from it.

Passive aggressive behavior, psychologically speaking, is always labeled as something bad. But this doesn’t mean that something bad is never something powerful. Politics, workplaces, schools, and just about every other social setting that you can think of are infested with one form of passive aggressive behavior or another. In the ancient royal courts, for example, there were always powerful people who were experts at getting what they wanted and furthering their best interest by being passive aggressive.

Whether or not you decide to practice passive aggressive behavior is up to you, but you had better be fully aware of it because it one of psychological warfare’s greatest weapons. In fact, the true power behind the persuasion techniques of passive aggressive behavior lies in its powerful disguises that make it invisible to the masses of people who are controlled by it unawares.