How do guys approach women in America?

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MissConstrue
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01 Aug 2011, 10:37 pm

How do guys approach women in America?


Depends. If you're a super hot chick then they'll hit on you right away. If you're not, they'll either act like you don't exist or try and get in your pants while they're drunk or desperate. If you're average looking it depends on the guy. But I haven't been all over America and American men are full of different approaches. Some are too shy to even bother. I'm surprised you don't like Turkish men but I guess it's understandable given their cultural attitude toward women in a predominantly Muslim society.


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01 Aug 2011, 11:10 pm

I don't like men at the moment. I think they gross, revolting. Secretly I hate them, some neighbours and the b*****s that cry for them.

It makes me feel like vomiting.

I've never cried for any man. I don't understand why they cried like babies. It's horrible.



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02 Aug 2011, 1:12 am

ValentineWiggin wrote:
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I'd imagine most women haven't, unless they're exceptionally-attractive (read: thin and made-up.


You come across as spouting a very socially conservative line on this, when it's obvious even from this thread that lots of women get randomly hit on. TeaEarlGreyHot in particular.

(Tequila titters up his sleeve at the similarities between some strands of feminism and the more backward strains of social conservatism)


"Socially conservative"? Because I've never witnessed or experienced a guy going up to a strange woman and trying to initiate non-platonic contact, and don't believe it happens nearly as much by definition to women who aren't exceptionally striking-looking? :?

I dunno what that has to do with either feminism or social conservatism, but I've noticed that at least in the case of the former, you're not exactly sure what such lofty words mean.


I'm not striking-looking. :?


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02 Aug 2011, 3:50 am

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What's wrong with Turkey? It's a nice country.


I like Turkey, but I don't belong here. Speaking Turkish will never be the same as speaking English. And I just don't fit into the culture. I'd NEVER marry a Turkish man.



ahhh, I was so waiting to hear a such thing one more time from a girl to tell her this:

I DON'T BELIEVE YOU.

I heard plenty of cases of girls claiming that they would NEVER date/marry a x,y,z man and yet ended up with one of those x,y,z men.

Some of the sentences I heard:
"I would NEVER date a non-Muslim and non-Lebanese guy" --> she ended up with a Christian Armenian man.

"I would ONLY date a christian guy" --> she ended up with a muslim sunni guy.

"I would NEVER date an introvert man like me" -- > she's dating now a home hermit.

"I would NEVER date a short man" ---> oh wait....she got a tall man, .....that "never" only works for shortness it seems :lol:.


So never say never because you might end up with a Turkish guy and find him better than any American.



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02 Aug 2011, 7:04 am

The_Face_of_Boo wrote:
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ahhh, I was so waiting to hear a such thing one more time from a girl to tell her this:

I DON'T BELIEVE YOU.

I heard plenty of cases of girls claiming that they would NEVER date/marry a x,y,z man and yet ended up with one of those x,y,z men.

Some of the sentences I heard:
"I would NEVER date a non-Muslim and non-Lebanese guy" --> she ended up with a Christian Armenian man.

"I would ONLY date a christian guy" --> she ended up with a muslim sunni guy.

"I would NEVER date an introvert man like me" -- > she's dating now a home hermit.

"I would NEVER date a short man" ---> oh wait....she got a tall man, .....that "never" only works for shortness it seems :lol:.


So never say never because you might end up with a Turkish guy and find him better than any American.


Usually, I'd agree with you Boo. But isn't Turkey one of those rape-your-wife, circumcise-your-daughter kind of cultures?

(I'm exaggerating, but you get the idea)

Even your usual American slob would probably be better than that.



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02 Aug 2011, 8:20 am

K-R-X wrote:
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Usually, I'd agree with you Boo. But isn't Turkey one of those rape-your-wife, circumcise-your-daughter kind of cultures?

(I'm exaggerating, but you get the idea)

Even your usual American slob would probably be better than that.



Not quite... :P In the Eastern parts it can get pretty bad, I haven't heard of female circumcision though, there have been a few cases of horrible families putting their daughter to death after she was raped. (There was also a case where the police didn't do anything about a rapist, so the village hunted him down together. XD) I'm sure they rape their wives, if they don't put out.
But here in Istanbul, it's mostly just the view that women should cook and clean all day, and they aren't as good as men for anything else. :(

Oh and for the record you watch me marry a Christian non-Turk, Boo. :P I'll happen.



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02 Aug 2011, 10:33 am

K-R-X wrote:
The_Face_of_Boo wrote:
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ahhh, I was so waiting to hear a such thing one more time from a girl to tell her this:

I DON'T BELIEVE YOU.

I heard plenty of cases of girls claiming that they would NEVER date/marry a x,y,z man and yet ended up with one of those x,y,z men.

Some of the sentences I heard:
"I would NEVER date a non-Muslim and non-Lebanese guy" --> she ended up with a Christian Armenian man.

"I would ONLY date a christian guy" --> she ended up with a muslim sunni guy.

"I would NEVER date an introvert man like me" -- > she's dating now a home hermit.

"I would NEVER date a short man" ---> oh wait....she got a tall man, .....that "never" only works for shortness it seems :lol:.


So never say never because you might end up with a Turkish guy and find him better than any American.


Usually, I'd agree with you Boo. But isn't Turkey one of those rape-your-wife, circumcise-your-daughter kind of cultures?

(I'm exaggerating, but you get the idea)

Even your usual American slob would probably be better than that.


No, not really, not in Istanbul at least.



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02 Aug 2011, 10:41 am

Spazzergasm wrote:
K-R-X wrote:
The_Face_of_Boo wrote:
Usually, I'd agree with you Boo. But isn't Turkey one of those rape-your-wife, circumcise-your-daughter kind of cultures?

(I'm exaggerating, but you get the idea)

Even your usual American slob would probably be better than that.



Not quite... :P In the Eastern parts it can get pretty bad, I haven't heard of female circumcision though, there have been a few cases of horrible families putting their daughter to death after she was raped. (There was also a case where the police didn't do anything about a rapist, so the village hunted him down together. XD) I'm sure they rape their wives, if they don't put out.
But here in Istanbul, it's mostly just the view that women should cook and clean all day, and they aren't as good as men for anything else. :(

Oh and for the record you watch me marry a Christian non-Turk, Boo. :P I'll happen.


and there are few cases of Mormon families in US marrying little girls and there's a significant part believing that women should never abort, so what's your point again? If you want a liberal country, go to Canada, not to the US.



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02 Aug 2011, 10:45 am

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I actually consider living in the UK. It's just hard though considering I've never been there longer than like, a week. And quite expensive. But marrying a Brit and running off to England with a tri-citizenship is appealing. :D


It is expensive. You even have your choice of multicultural hellhole ghetto too, and there are a lot of Turkish people living in London I believe. in fact, there's a lot of everyone living in London.

It depends what kind of environment you'd want.



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02 Aug 2011, 3:34 pm

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If you want a liberal country, go to Canada, not to the US.


Canada doesn't seem very liberal at all - it seems to be infested with a similar kind of nanny-statist socialism as here in the UK.



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02 Aug 2011, 4:30 pm

The_Face_of_Boo wrote:
Spazzergasm wrote:
K-R-X wrote:
The_Face_of_Boo wrote:
Usually, I'd agree with you Boo. But isn't Turkey one of those rape-your-wife, circumcise-your-daughter kind of cultures?

(I'm exaggerating, but you get the idea)

Even your usual American slob would probably be better than that.



Not quite... :P In the Eastern parts it can get pretty bad, I haven't heard of female circumcision though, there have been a few cases of horrible families putting their daughter to death after she was raped. (There was also a case where the police didn't do anything about a rapist, so the village hunted him down together. XD) I'm sure they rape their wives, if they don't put out.
But here in Istanbul, it's mostly just the view that women should cook and clean all day, and they aren't as good as men for anything else. :(

Oh and for the record you watch me marry a Christian non-Turk, Boo. :P I'll happen.


and there are few cases of Mormon families in US marrying little girls and there's a significant part believing that women should never abort, so what's your point again? If you want a liberal country, go to Canada, not to the US.


Ok, I really don't know why you're getting hostile. I made this thread expressing my excitement about moving to the states. It kinda bugs me that people are telling me to move to different countries instead... as if that's doable. :?



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02 Aug 2011, 4:41 pm

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I'm not striking-looking. :?


Exactly - all kinds of women get hit on: fat, thin, old, young. Some guys will hit on anything; same with women too.

To pretend that only supermodels get hit on is denying what actually happens in the real world - and, yes, it does sound like social conservatism.



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02 Aug 2011, 4:44 pm

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I've never been "hit on" in any context- I'd imagine most women haven't, unless they're exceptionally-attractive (read: thin and made-up) and even then in many environments like school or work it seems to be quite rare. It would seem most men simply don't wander up to perfect strangers, knowing no more about them than what they look like, either because they find it crude, or because they're simply too shy to.


Also have to know sometimes being hit on flies over peoples head.

Might also be area and environment, I know this girl I used to work with in a restaurant..she was annoying, somewhat vulgar and not "striking" albeit not ugly.

This guy came into the restaurant once--just to ask her out. Of course she turned him down (and if she didn't have viable options, aside from the guy looking like a dork, she'd have taken him up on it)

The majority of women get hit on, not going to say as often as tea does but.. my mom got hit on (my dad saw her on a bus and hit on her), my girlfriend got hit on, lots of women do.



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02 Aug 2011, 7:46 pm

If they consider you attractive, you will find random guys approaching you. If not, you more than likely won't. You can tell by which females get attraction, and some will definitely have more attraction if they have large breasts and/or a butt. Seems like a lot of guys are like this, but there are males out here in America who will want genuine friendships with you without trying to get you in their bedrooms as their focal point.....

As for me, I can't see how people would go ask random strangers on dates without knowing them. Makes no sense to me. How is one to know if they have any connection for a relationship unless they know them on a personal level? Unless they're just looking for sex.....


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02 Aug 2011, 8:29 pm

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Unless they're just looking for sex.....


Bingo!



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02 Aug 2011, 9:24 pm

The_Face_of_Boo wrote:
Spazzergasm wrote:
K-R-X wrote:
The_Face_of_Boo wrote:
Usually, I'd agree with you Boo. But isn't Turkey one of those rape-your-wife, circumcise-your-daughter kind of cultures?

(I'm exaggerating, but you get the idea)

Even your usual American slob would probably be better than that.



Not quite... :P In the Eastern parts it can get pretty bad, I haven't heard of female circumcision though, there have been a few cases of horrible families putting their daughter to death after she was raped. (There was also a case where the police didn't do anything about a rapist, so the village hunted him down together. XD) I'm sure they rape their wives, if they don't put out.
But here in Istanbul, it's mostly just the view that women should cook and clean all day, and they aren't as good as men for anything else. :(

Oh and for the record you watch me marry a Christian non-Turk, Boo. :P I'll happen.


and there are few cases of Mormon families in US marrying little girls and there's a significant part believing that women should never abort, so what's your point again? If you want a liberal country, go to Canada, not to the US.


But that's illegal and if guys like that were caught, they'd be arrested. Some countries, excluding Turkey make practices like that legal. However I sort of see what you're saying.


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