PUA won't work because the vast majority of PUA have underlying problems. Out of the PUA that I know, most of them have some kind of menal illness, depresion, autism, anxiety, etc. On top of that, most of them seem to come from dysfunctional families where their family members are as weird as the PUA themselves. Most of them are bad with people in general, whether dealing with men or women. Women are turned off by PUA inability to read the room, and mental illness rather than their approach. Of course their mental illness will affect their approach as well. The idea of approaching women isn't the problem. It's approaching while you have mental illness, and dodgy backgrounds.