Actually, I think what she said is girls who are *not* interested strongly express their *dis*interest. As someone who spent quite some time in a bathroom crying as a teenager because she couldn't get someone to stop groping her with nonverbal cues but if she said something outloud she would not only hurt his feelings but possibly cause him to become a social outcast and that would be mean (hello Fallacy #2), I'm going to sympathize with her a hell of a lot more than with you on this one. She also mentioned her high school experience and I could easily see someone in that situation learning that even if you're gentle you still get screwed socially for saying "no", so take it like a woman and you won't lose your friends. It would have been better if she'd included "If you don't know, *ask*", but her example with Random showed exactly that, so she might've thought it didn't need repeating.
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Date: 2006-03-24 03:09 am (UTC)