How do you react to being hit on/checked out?

[bigwon]

I'm pretty unapproachable.

My perspective: i'll notice a lady looking at me and as soon as I make eye contact they turn there head. Kind of that confused deer in the headlights thing. Otherwise I imagine myself as being invisible to women most of the time.

Other's perspective: (warning: over exaggeration) girls are all fawning, and creaming there panties over the sight of me.

I'm generally someone who if wasn't genetically inclined to seek out female and just general interaction/recognition with others, I would probably find a cave and meditate for the rest of my life. So it's kind of a euphoria whenever I'm able to sense someone's attraction and a low as I sulk about all day all husk like...blues soundtrack playing and all...hehe

 

[Vanorae]

Suprised and uncomfortable. I wish it would be different, but I'm no femme fatale and whenever some guy looks at me or tries to get my attention I just walk away embarrassed or smile awkwardly. I wish I'd be a bit 'smoother' in that regard but nobody's perfect.

 

[Zhadramekel]

It depends how creepy they are about it. Before my boyfriend, pretty much all of them were. Three occasions that stick out in my mind were:

1) When I went out to a nightclub with some classmates. Another guy there started hitting on me and after that continued to follow me around despite my body language clearly saying 'back off'. Eventually I got so bored of him tailing me that I went home early.

2) When I was getting the bus home from Gay Pride (my friend invited me along) a guy at least double my age was clearly hitting on me and being quite creepy about it too.

3) Walking through a back alley (in the middle of the day) from one shop to the main shopping street a much older man on a disability scooter came up to me and was obviously into preying on younger girls. Although it happened over two years ago so I now don't remember the details.

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

Reacting to someone "hitting" on me would require me to view other human beings as actual feeling creatures, instead of the walking, talking obstacles between me and where I want to go that they actually are.

Besides, I'm 37 and God's gift to absolutely nothing, so anyone "checking me out" is probably just looking to get something from me, and it's highly unlikely that it'd be my body.

 

[Spoonius]

I find this thread depressingly ironic.

People on the Escapist can be so bloody pretentious at times, allegedly so cultured, so civilised, so much more advanced than the plebeian masses... and yet from the sound of things only ~5% percent of us will ever pass on our 'superior' genes anyway.

Just survival of the fittest I guess (pun very much intended).

 

[AnarchistFish]

Flirt back probably. Depending on how attractive they are/how drunk I am/maybe some other factors.

 

[AnarchistFish]

I find this thread depressingly ironic.

People on the Escapist can be so bloody pretentious at times, allegedly so cultured, so civilised, so much more advanced than the plebeian masses... and yet from the sound of things only ~5% percent of us will ever pass on our 'superior' genes anyway.

Just survival of the fittest I guess (pun very much intended).

And then they complain when people believe in the gamer stereotype.

 

[FunnyBunny]

But seriously, you're exactly right of course. And thanks.

Of course I was right.