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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here - My original post probably wasn't the clearest, but I'm not getting back into the dating scene. I was more trying to figure out how to view the current news about gender relations. Back in my day, there was a certain level of expectation that a woman should make a guy chase her a little bit. Viewed through that lens, you give a guy a certain leeway to keep pursuing when a woman is playing hard to get. If that sort of thing isn't common anymore, then it makes it a lot clearer that a guy should just stop when his initiation isn't pretty immediately met with enthusiastic reciprocation. [/quote]

You are in your late 40s? I'm just a couple of years younger, and I call bullshit. :) There were plenty of women in the 80s and 90s who were enthusiastically pursuing men. And you don't "give a guy a certain leeway to keep pursuing". What do you mean by this, exactly? No has always meant no, and women have been pretty overt with that message since the second wave; you could hardly not have known.

If you were in your 60s or 70s, maybe I'd buy this.[/quote]

Don't know what to tell you -- I'm from the Midwest and everything happens about 20 years later there. I'm not talking about blowing past a humorless "no." But if it was more of a pretend (at least you hoped it was pretend) exasperated "no" with a smile on a second or third date you might keep kissing on her to see if she warmed up. [/quote]

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