What I got in the mail today: pool cleaning equipment.
What I don’t have: a pool.
Uh.
Trying for Belvedere: astringe replied to your post: I don’t think you were overreacting. In...
astringe replied to your post: I don’t think you were overreacting. In my experience (knowing myself and the women around me), reactions to situations like that are pretty personal. I imagine someone who has never been made uncomfortable by unsolicited flirtation may respond…
Then, where do the bounds between “solicited” flirtation and “unsolicited” flirtation begin? The courting game is very obviously a game with imperfect information exchange. In order for “solicited” flirtation to be sufficiently differentiable from “unsolicited” flirtation, the observing party needs to be able to determine what is solicited and what isn’t. While there are some cases where this is obvious, I doubt that this obviousness is systemic. When it’s not obvious what is solicited and unsolicited, I’m rather torn as to the resonance of that “no.”
So far as I’m concerned, it’s unsolicited if it’s not obvious.
