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Old 01-18-2010, 12:06 AM
 
Location: Bradenton, Florida
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Originally Posted by llratke View Post
Why don't men pursue women anymore? Seems it only happens in the movies.

In my own experience, men will give me their phone numbers....and ask me to call them....and I'm 45 years old! This seems messed up.

Any comments gentlemen? Preferably men over 40 to answer please.

(not that the young guys can't answer this.....they don't seem to be the ones afraid....it's the older ones)
If a man is giving you his phone number, that's not a form of pursuit?

 
Old 01-18-2010, 12:09 AM
 
Location: Midwest
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no....it's just romantic tkramar
 
Old 01-18-2010, 12:12 AM
 
Location: Midwest
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If a man is giving you his phone number, that's not a form of pursuit?


No, that is not pursuing.....that is a man too afraid of rejection and putting all the weight on the woman
 
Old 01-18-2010, 12:16 AM
 
Location: Southern California
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No, that is not pursuing.....that is a man too afraid of rejection and putting all the weight on the woman
I've asked women for their 'numbers' but they asked for mine instead. I always ask for their's but if they insist on me giving them mine without reciprocating...what's a guy to do?
 
Old 01-18-2010, 12:22 AM
 
Location: Bradenton, Florida
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He's demonstrating his interest...he wouldn't give her his number if he didn't want her to call him. So that's pursuit, the way I see it.

I wouldn't go that far.
 
Old 01-18-2010, 12:25 AM
 
Location: Midwest
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I've asked women for their 'numbers' but they asked for mine instead. I always ask for their's but if they insist on me giving them mine without reciprocating...what's a guy to do?
I appreciate your response mikeetc....I guess I'm just old fashioned
 
Old 01-18-2010, 12:29 AM
 
Location: In the Pearl of the Purchase, Ky
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Because they can be arrested for stalking, just on the say so of a woman.

If a woman I work with commutes on the same bus I do, she can tell me to not ride on the bus that she gets on, nor to wait at the same bus stop, nor to walk behind her to the bus stop. If I do not completely reorder my entire life to walk from the office in a different direction and get on a different bus at a different bus stop, I can be arrested and forced hire a trial attorney to defend myself against a criminal charge of stalking.

That's why.

I have discussed exactly this scenario with shrill feminists, and they replied "What, you have a problem with that?"
jtur, I went through something like that in my college days. Asked a girl out a few times, she never turned me down. Nothing major, maybe walk to McD's and to a movie. One night I was walking across campus and the campus security car pulled up and said he needed to talk to me. She had filed a harassment complaint against me. I wasn't going to college but lived across the street from campus. This girl was a year younger than I was. Was told if I was seen on campus there would be a charge of trespassing against me. I found out later it was this girl I had dated who filed the complaint on me! All she had to do was tell me she didn't want to go out with me any more and I would have left her alone! I was very careful when I asked somebody out after that!
 
Old 01-18-2010, 12:32 AM
 
Location: Bradenton, Florida
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Let's say I'm out somewhere, and there are 10 single women there, and no guys. All 10 are attractive, viable, dateable--why should I pick one of those ten out? Why not date the one who shows that she is interested in ME instead?

Otherwise, I'm REJECTING nine perfectly suitable women. But the one I want is the one interested in me.

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Old 01-18-2010, 12:39 AM
 
Location: Houston, TX
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I appreciate your response mikeetc....I guess I'm just old fashioned

i.e you want to be pursued and play hard to get...
 
Old 01-18-2010, 12:45 AM
 
Location: At the Lake (in Texas)
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And THAT's why we woman like younger men! No attitudes, honest eagerness and appreciation! Ta da!!!!!
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