Just reading for fun, or being Ple's Beta Bitch?
Rereading a lot of due South fic. I was due for a re-up.
I like to flirt, but I have to rest the waters first. Without necessarily being picky, I do have a kind of criterion for being able to flirt--people who get my sense of humor, for example, or people who like to argue in that way...that's how I can usually know that we'll get along in that teasing/flirty sort of way.
I am a misanthrope because PEOPLE SUCK, not because I'm socially retarded. At least 90% of the world annoys the CRAP out of me. I don't want to talk to them, much less flirt with them. I'm *picky,* not socially inhibited.
I take it back. You're totally Misanthrope of the Week.
I take it back. You're totally Misanthrope of the Week.
My misanthropy has valid reasons, yo.
I like *some* people -- surely that's pro-anthropic, right?
(Do I get a plaque for being Misanthrope of the Week? Maybe a special parking space, far away from the madding crowd?)
I am a misanthrope because PEOPLE SUCK, not because I'm socially retarded. At least 90% of the world annoys the CRAP out of me. I don't want to talk to them, much less flirt with them. I'm *picky,* not socially inhibited.
Wrod. If you talk to people, then they want to talk to you, and you only talked to them for a specific purpose, and they now think that you'd rather talk to them instead of reading that damned good book you brought to lunch.
People. Feh.
(Do I get a plaque for being Misanthrope of the Week? Maybe a special parking space, far away from the madding crowd?)
You should get an engraved Taser.
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I used to think that flirting was this bad, obnoxious thing that men did to women. It's weird - looking back at my younger self I often think, "Where did I come up with
that
idea?" Like, when I was 17-19 or so, I believed that almost all men were obnoxious jerks, and that all I had to do was be nice and non-jerky and then women would like me.
My current theory is that back then I was just rationalizing my social anxiety.
Some young guys really are Dr. Todd, though.
Thanks for not.
But that doesn't mean you can't try.
I believed that almost all men were obnoxious jerks, and that all I had to do was be nice and non-jerky and then women would like me.
We still do prefer nice and non-jerky. It's just that that's not
all
you have to do.
I flirt with everyone- old, young, boy, girl, straight, not so- whoever. These days, however, it's never with a purpose. Odd, since I started out so shy I couldn't talk on the phone or even order my own food at McDonalds. I was terrified of talking to people.
Now, come on... it's not Deliveranceshire, you know.
quick and hilarious erika.
Poly flirting is a bit trickier. I don't have that "but she's seeing someone" safe zone since everyong knows I'm poly. I tend to act flirty with everyone and then I find myself having to flat out tell people that it's not actually going to happen between us. I guess you could say I'm a tease.