• OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca
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    8 days ago

    It works better if you read her flushed cheeks as anger at being told that by a creepy old man on the transit.

    This comic just further promotes the false idea that all women love being complimented by random strangers. Just leave her alone. It’s gross.

  • eestileib@sh.itjust.works
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    8 days ago

    If I was at a bar or a singles event or something, this line would get a laugh out of me and I’d probably let the guy chat me up a bit.

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      8 days ago

      I mean, yes. A super weird thing to say to a stranger.

      Buuut…there are just some people with the kind of—I believe the kids are calling it “rizz”—to get away with and win people over with things no one should ever say. I’m sure it’s a mixture of looks, confidence, the elusive “charm,” and also, yes, probably plenty of people taking offense still.

      But, there are definitely people with the right mix of all that, plus a kindness about their aura/perception that can and definitely do say this kind of shit.

      One of my buddies, for example. He’s over 50. But whatever it is, when we’re working, he does say shit like this to women passing on the street and the reaction is not at all unlike the one in the comic. I do not understand it. But ive seen it firsthand.

      Dude is a chain smoker and is missing I think more teeth than he has left. I would love to possess this kind of natural ease people receive you with—hell, I’d settle for not being unapproachable. But hey, the cards you’re dealt, right?