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Men talk to women sitting alone in public. Women who are sitting alone might as well have a big "OPEN" sign over their heads. [b]Do you know what it's like to be a woman who goes to a bar at happy hour and sits alone, at the bar, with a drink and a book?[/b] You can't read that book. It doesn't even matter if you're not particularly attractive. At least one man will approach you and try to strike up a conversation.[/quote]

I am a woman and a new poster. Why on earth would any person (man or woman) go to a bar or coffee shop or public place if he or she doesn't want to interact with people? The definition of a public place is a place where people interact with each other. If you do not want anyone to talk to you, then stay home or in your office or take your coffee to a private place or sit in your car. I am a 40-something fairly attractive woman and have had men (and women) strike up conversations with me in public since I was about 13 years old. Sure, it took me a few years to learn to shut down unwanted flirting, but if I am in public then people are going to talk to me. This is not a difficult concept to pick up. If I want to be left alone, I stay at home! If I want to interact with people, I go to a bar or coffee shop! I really cannot understand women who spend hours in public places by choice and then complain about people talking to them. [/quote]

You can't understand why women think they have a right to be in public without being obliged to talk to everyone who thinks she should talk to them?

That's very, very sad.  [/quote]

It’s ego. What a lot of men can’t understand is how they aren’t god’s biggest gift to the world to absolutely everyone under the sun. 
Who raised these people??[/quote]

My DH can go anywhere he wants,  public place  or not, with his book and his thoughts, and no women will pester him, despite his being handsome.
When he was young sometimes gay men would pester him - and  here we are back to men not getting it.[/quote]

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