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.