PUA
释义 DEFINITION
PUA原指"Pick-up Artist"（搭讪艺术家），是西方传入的约会技巧体系。但在中文互联网语境中，该词已异化为：
1. 情感操控术（主流用法）：通过贬低、打压、制造愧疚感等手段实施精神控制，常见于亲密关系或职场场景
2. 原教旨PUA：仍被少数群体使用的搭讪教学
3. 网络延伸义：任何带有系统性心理压制的行为，如"职场PUA""亲情PUA"
词源故事 ETYMOLOGY
2018年北大女生包丽自杀事件成为PUA词义转折点。当媒体报道其男友牟林翰使用"宠物养成计划"等PUA手段实施精神虐待后，这个词彻底黑化。
此后三年间，"PUA"百度搜索指数暴涨670%，网友用它解构各种权力不对等关系：
• 职场版：领导画饼压榨（"你离开这儿找不到更好的"）
• 婚恋版：男友贬低控制（"除了我没人要你"）
• 家庭版：父母情感绑架（"我都是为了你好"）
2021年央视纪录片《我们如何对抗抑郁》中，心理学家指出：
"PUA式话术会激活大脑的疼痛中枢，其伤害不亚于肢体暴力"
例句：这个领导天天PUA下属，说行业寒冬要感恩公司给饭碗。
DEFINITION
PUA, originally short for "Pick-up Artist", has evolved into China's internet lingo equivalent to systematic emotional manipulation. It now primarily refers to:
1. Psychological Domination Tactics (main usage): Using gaslighting, negging, and guilt-tripping to control victims - similar to toxic relationships portrayed in Netflix's Maid
2. Dating Coach Culture: Still practiced by a niche community
3. Cultural Adaptation: Extended to describe power abuse in workplaces/families (e.g. "Corporate PUA")
ETYMOLOGY
The suicide of Peking University student Bao Li in 2018 marked PUA's semantic shift. When investigations revealed her boyfriend Mou Linhan used "pet training tactics" - including forced abortion demands and psychological abuse - Chinese netizens weaponized PUA as a cultural critique.
Over the next three years, Baidu search volume for PUA surged 670%, evolving into a lens to examine power dynamics:
• Workplace: Bosses guilt-tripping employees ("You should be grateful we're paying you during recession")
• Relationships: Partners using negging ("No one else would tolerate your flaws")
• Family: Parental gaslighting ("We're doing this for your own good")
As noted in CCTV's 2021 documentary Fighting Depression:
"PUA tactics activate the brain's pain centers similarly to physical violence"
Example: That manager keeps PUA-ing his team, saying they should appreciate having jobs during the economic winter.