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Yeah, but if you try denying it to the wrong guy, this was called cock teasing (which now apparently is also a porn category, goddammit is everything nowadays porn?). You have to be careful with your signalling. This is why everyone, man or woman, wants the Simple Easy Rules For Direct Communication but we're not going to get them.
Yeah, that's what the Schrödinger's Rapist conversation was all about. Men who didn't understand that women inductively match "a stranger is trying to flirt with me" to frighteningly high odds of "and he might get really nasty or dangerous about it if I'm even a bit too gentle or too harsh (or both, because nasty men aren't all big on logic) about shutting it down", arguing with women who didn't understand that making the guys nice enough to listen about this problem more wary just ends up increasing the proportion of public flirtation coming from nasty men who would never have listened in the first place.
I admit I suddenly developed a lot more sympathy and respect for women with "resting bitch face" (and even for some non-superficial negative personality traits) when I realized how useful that probably is as a defense against accidentally signaling (or being mistakenly perceived as signaling) invitations they didn't want to offer. Even if the person making a pass isn't at all nasty, more explicit rejections are much more emotionally upsetting to give! In the moment it hurts more to be rejected than to reject someone, but (unless there was a reason for rejection more substantial than "I'm not very attracted to you") IMHO the pain of being rejected goes away faster.
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