What would be your reaction?

[*Nately120*]

This made me think of this story from my past. I had a pal, and we were pals from ages 15 to oh, late 20s I guess was when things trailed off. He had a sister 2 years younger than us and when we were in our mid 20s and hanging out and drinking with the crew I noticed she was along and not so bad to look at. She seemed to be not repulsed by me and I said something of the tune of this to her:

"So I assume damn near every one of your brother's friends has had a few beers and asked you out, so if I were to do that and assure you it is out of legitimate interest what would you say?" She laughed and said that she would say yes, and that almost all of her brother's friends HAD hit on her at one point or another. She was also a waitress and I correctly assumed that led to every man in town assuming she wanted their number. When I called her the next day she admitted she was pleasantly surprised I actually followed up on my tipsy requests.

I can see why women get annoyed that everything they do is taken as an invitation for romance/sex and so on. Particularly in our "she asked for it" society. It's also a case by case basis. In my better looking days I'd been approached by women that DID interest me, women that didn't, women that made me legitimately uneasy (as in they had kids and abusive ex boyfriends and were looking for someone to save them) and the occasional gay guy.

Basically, I'm saying that I can count on one hand the number of times I've had someone I wasn't interested in approach me about this sort of thing and it's a bit of an unfun situation so I can only imagine that attractive women get that times 1000 at least. Hell, I've also been the guy who misconstrued a woman being baseline friendly to me as an invitation to get something going on and I felt like a bit of an arse for thinking it was more than that.

Anywho, bottom line is that I don't blame women for getting sick of men hitting on them. It takes relatively little to get us thinking we're gonna score.