Its a shame they can't ban the company he works for too. It's been stated that it wasn't necessarily him who was going to lead the seminar, but that the organisation was sending someone else as he was here a month ago.
I agree with aog by the way, AB had nothing whatsoever (other than individuals signing petition) to do with this banning, it was the tens of thousands of people who signed the petition and supported the cause.
whilst i agree that the percentage of aber's signing it was probably small when you consider the total figures, i for one only signed it because my attention was drawn to it through here. so in a small way ab does help....
I had already been aware of the man and had signed the petition long before mikey's post, in fact I had posted about Mr Blanc myself but as is common on AB my post was ignored.
The fact that this man is referred to as a 'pick up' 'artist' should demonstrate in three words that his attitudes to women have not moved forward since 1972, and he should be laughed at with a volume comensurate with his pitiful well-worn path of taking money off gullible men.
Frankly, any man who needs lessons in talking (sorry, 'picking up') women should be taken for every penny he has.
Especially if he really believes that a few seminars will turn him from a sad objectifier who sees women entirely in terms of a success rate based on the prospects of a sexual relationship with minimum effort, charm, and financial outlay.
You can call an ass a horse, but it doesn't shorten its ears!