I agree with the OP.
Sometimes people take this sort of thing too far. There is a difference between genuinely wanting a great person in your life or wanting some casual sex, and being obsessive and manipulative for no reason.
Sometimes PUAs get so hooked on "self improvement" and "attraction" that they forget the real reason they wanted to learn the stuff in the first place. To connect with other people.
Some of the people in this video are a good example of this :
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 3621883092#
Every field needs its nutbags. I mean we'd never have won world war 2 without churchill. But just take all this "Alpha Male Sex God Super Man" strutting about stuff with a grain of salt.