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minus-squaredecipher_jeanne@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up10·edit-22 days agoAt a bar or in the street: I don’t want to flirt back, but I am afraid he’ll just keep getting more pushy or forceful. Anyone around can play diversion please?
minus-squaredandelion (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up11·1 day agoI feel this, it feels dangerous to make a man upset or angry, or even disappointed - so you try to be super nice and polite, but then he just misreads your politeness as interest.
minus-squareZDL@lazysoci.allinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 day agoBecause “no” is not in the vocabulary of so many men it’s honestly a bit terrifying.
At a bar or in the street:
I don’t want to flirt back, but I am afraid he’ll just keep getting more pushy or forceful. Anyone around can play diversion please?
I feel this, it feels dangerous to make a man upset or angry, or even disappointed - so you try to be super nice and polite, but then he just misreads your politeness as interest.
Because “no” is not in the vocabulary of so many men it’s honestly a bit terrifying.