ummthatguy@lemmy.worldM to TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name@lemmy.worldEnglish · 22 hours ago"You'll have to excuse my friend. He's a little slow." - Lloyd Christmaslemmy.worldimagemessage-square14fedilinkarrow-up1185arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up1183arrow-down1image"You'll have to excuse my friend. He's a little slow." - Lloyd Christmaslemmy.worldummthatguy@lemmy.worldM to TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name@lemmy.worldEnglish · 22 hours agomessage-square14fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareRedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·19 hours agoI hate that this is framed as men being stupid when in reality if a man is ignoring a hint it’s because he’d rather be wrong about it not being a hint than wrong about it being a hint and make an unwanted advance.
minus-squareTippon@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·19 hours agoNope, there’s a decent number of us who can completely miss any type of hint, and need to be told explicitly that someone’s into us. Source: It’s me, I’m one of those men.
minus-squareThebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·14 hours agoOr, as I’ve said 1000 times before and will say 1000 times again… Playing hard to get is often indistinguishable from not interested.
minus-squareCrazyLikeGollum@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·19 hours agoIt can both of these things. I can completely miss most hints thrown my way and still be concerned about misreading possible hints. In some things a lack of subtlety is a virtue. In this case, “you, me, sex” is not clear enough. Please specify a time and location as well.
minus-squareTippon@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·18 hours agoWait, it doesn’t mean right here, right now? Maybe that’s why I’m banned from the supermarket 🤔
I hate that this is framed as men being stupid when in reality if a man is ignoring a hint it’s because he’d rather be wrong about it not being a hint than wrong about it being a hint and make an unwanted advance.
Nope, there’s a decent number of us who can completely miss any type of hint, and need to be told explicitly that someone’s into us.
Source: It’s me, I’m one of those men.
Or, as I’ve said 1000 times before and will say 1000 times again…
Playing hard to get is often indistinguishable from not interested.
It can both of these things. I can completely miss most hints thrown my way and still be concerned about misreading possible hints.
In some things a lack of subtlety is a virtue. In this case, “you, me, sex” is not clear enough. Please specify a time and location as well.
Wait, it doesn’t mean right here, right now? Maybe that’s why I’m banned from the supermarket 🤔