@LukeAlmighty @Evil_Bender @matty @BigDuck well, it's not like I could ever do anything about it *but* be annoyed

I was super literal-minded and I couldn't always tell when ppl were flirting with me. It used to be that if you thought a fella was handsome, you smiled at him, and he knew by this that you were open to a conversation. Some boomer--because it was always a boomer--demanding that I performatively display an interest I didn't feel made no sense and seemed sad and desperate. And being a tard, I would explain this to them, to the incomprehension and dissatisfaction of everyone. "Why would I smile?"

I was thrilled to age out of this kind of attention because I never knew how to deal with it. And in the years since then, everything on earth has changed about courtship rituals, including the notion of courtship. The thing that hasn't changed is that women are still running around with our fake gay freedom, which really just means there's no one to protect us from men who don't mean well. In the before times men would not have been free to approach women in this manner. I don't see how there's a halfway solution where we still have loose sexual morals and it's a free-for-all, but men don't risk anything in the way that those boomers had nothing to fear and could run a numbers game. Young men of today have my sympathies and I wish things weren't so awful for them, but the only solution is to RETVRN way back before the 60s.