How does a man flirt?

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Oh, incel stuff. Yeah, that makes sense.

Flirting is not universal behavior, and thus does not universally provide positive results. Why try to mimic something that is more likely to work against you than for you? Concentrate on being a good person and paying attention to other people. No one owes anyone else attention of any type, anyway, so forcing the issue is not going to work in anyone's favor.

So, what advice do you have for the incels?

It’s fine for people in this thread to call out incel stuff (or related nonsense) when they see it, but I would prefer that we not derail with a side discussion involving advice for that community. There’s no shortage of that elsewhere.

The main topic is: “How does a man flirt?” People can engage with that question directly OR with someone else’s response (agreeing or disagreeing), but I’d prefer that we not explore controversial side topics here. In my experience, discussions involving incels are unproductive and often lead to rule breaks on WP anyway.

This thread was largely meant to be lighthearted in nature although serious responses are welcome, too, as long as WP rules, most relevantly the one prohibiting sexist language, are abided by.

Thanks.

Looks like he's carrying about 12 chairs. That doesn't impress you?

How many chairs would a guy have to carry before you'd cut him some slack? 14?

Actually, it'd be more impressive if he was carrying an odd number of chairs, wouldn't it? Because then he'd be unbalanced and his obliques would be working hard to keep him upright.

So maybe fewer chairs, but unevenly carried would be more likely to earn an admiring glance from TP?

I don’t think I’d be impressed by any number of chairs although I suppose there could be more skill involved with an unequal distribution now that I think about it.

To be honest, though, there were more occasions involving stackable chairs than foldable ones.

Whenever I tried to help with the chairs, they’d take them from me and wouldn’t let me help. I suppose they were trying to be chivalrous, but I just found it irritating. Sometimes one is in a chair-carrying sort of mood.

^^^ that was literally me
Alas I caught no fish

Oh, I'm so sorry! I saw this immediately after the one about how does a woman flirt, and didn't register that you had started this one as a completely different idea, thinking instead that it was a follow-up along the same lines. And then when I saw some similar ideas as in that other thread, that didn't help me register my mistake.

There have been so many different ways I've seen men flirt over the years, I don't think there is a short list to point to at all. I think that might be due to the fact there isn't as much social pressure for men to flirt, so there isn't a social template either.

This comic kept coming to mind...

Well, never give up. A few more chairs might be worth a try?

Also I really wanted to post something daft about the guy flapping his arms and taking off and how impressive that would be but then I got deja vu. Has this pic been posted before and did I already make that observation?

I may as well have been "Anglican Church weekly's young christian of the year" it wouldn't have made an iota of difference. At least I was a celebrity to the Sunday school kids.

“Pheromones”
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an (aspie)(male) keeps insisting on the facts, dates, places etc, to claim he's right and you're not

or some unspecified male strategy is to complain about all the women he knew and all women in general, and believes that is a way forward, you owe him something at this point, the weirdest

Make a lot of money

It's called venting

Male or female, venting isn't an effective flirting strategy.

Yeah, venting can be somewhat negative energy. I can't imagine many people would feel flirted with when someone else is venting to them.