Reversed polarity in the social flow

[nancylebov]

In my recent post about people getting more approached when they say they don't want it, there were some questions about the genders involved.

The person who inspired my post is male, and the people who were making contact were about 50/50 male and female.

Here's a sad theory. There are a lot of people who don't know what someone being attracted to them would look like. They literally can't see it. They may have been on the receiving end of so much rejection growing up that it's the only social contact they can imagine.

Comments

[landley.livejournal.com]

Many years ago I commissioned a t-shirt from one of those "any slogan on a t-shirt, pay by the letter" places. It said "Single male, good condition, hardly used, make an offer". The theory was my shirt could flirt for me.

(Over the next 5 or so years, it worked exactly once. Which made it totally worth it, although the relationship didn't last.)

Rob