Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Before I gained pandemic weight, I got hit on at bars, Wegman's, standing on the street, in Ubers.....
What do you think attracted them enough they didn't heed to the me too fears?
Anonymous wrote:Old post, but I’m always curious about this. I’d like to think I’m fairly conventionally attractive (mid-30s, Eastern European, 5’8” size 4 and very fit, light hair and eyes, never leave the house without at the very least a bit of blush/mascara/concealer/lip gloss, always look “put together” etc) and yet I NEVER get hit on. I’m confident, friendly, chatty and smile a lot. I absolutely love a bit of friendly banter with strangers and I’ll start it any chance I get. I’ll have people occasionally offer to help or comment on something, but I have literally never once in my life had a “hey could I get your number I’d love to buy you a drink” type of interaction. And while I’m not losing any sleep over it I genuinely don’t understand why!
Anonymous wrote:
I’m fat, scarred face, no makeup, frizzy hair and overall ugly, but also 5’4” and never get hit on or cat called.
Anonymous wrote:Old post, but I’m always curious about this. I’d like to think I’m fairly conventionally attractive (mid-30s, Eastern European, 5’8” size 4 and very fit, light hair and eyes, never leave the house without at the very least a bit of blush/mascara/concealer/lip gloss, always look “put together” etc) and yet I NEVER get hit on. I’m confident, friendly, chatty and smile a lot. I absolutely love a bit of friendly banter with strangers and I’ll start it any chance I get. I’ll have people occasionally offer to help or comment on something, but I have literally never once in my life had a “hey could I get your number I’d love to buy you a drink” type of interaction. And while I’m not losing any sleep over it I genuinely don’t understand why!

Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Have you met men?![]()
#notallmen
#butalotofthem
Seriously, there is a very visible subset of men who seem off the charts pissed that "you can't approach women in public anymore" and "how am I supposed to meet women now?" And there is another visible subset who just keep doing it anyway.
Are these great men? No. Should you be honored to be a target? No. Are they hitting on women? Yes.
It helps a lot to have RBF. When you have resting-friendly-face, not so helpful in these cases.
The homeless man sitting in a cafe I was in the other day told me I had nice hair, then stared at me for awhile. Was he hitting on me? I don't tend to think of it as being hit on. Often times it's not legit or serious so I don't need to tell them "Sorry, I'm married."
Yeah some of the examples posters are giving are more being sexually harassed than hit on.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I used to get hit on a lot in my early 20s. I think this is because I went to school in a college town with lots of guys my age. I’d usually get hit on at bars, on campus, or at my pt job. Now in my early 30s and I never get hit on. I never go to bars anymore, never really out to eat unless with DH, pretty much always with my kids when I go out. Fine by me
Did you get fat?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Before I gained pandemic weight, I got hit on at bars, Wegman's, standing on the street, in Ubers.....
Define “ getting hit on” vs somebody making conversation, being nice.
Anonymous wrote:I honestly think that some men will hit on anyone. I am very overweight. I'm not attractive at all. I don't get hit on all the time but often enough. When I say hit on I mean asking me for my number, asking me if I'm single. I nannied a few years ago I told a guy that I wasn't single. After buckling my nanny kids into the car. He came over to the driver side and asked me if I was happy and if I was sure I didn't want to give him my number.
Anonymous wrote:I don't get hit on everywhere I go, but I get enough comments and compliments from strangers of the kind I would describe as "getting hit on" even if they're fleeting moments on the street and no one is asking me out or asking for my number. I'm not a great beauty, but I have a good figure, pretty hair, and a "pretty enough" face. Nowadays a lot of the comments are not the crude, obvious leering kind, but more restrained comments. I'll give a few examples:
-older, dapper Black gentleman in a hat, downtown. Gives me an appreciative look as we walk towards each other, smiles, tips his hat, says "that's a very pretty dress you're wearing." I get a fair bit of that kind of interaction: guy checks me out, nods or smiles, says "nice coat", "great hair", "beautiful dress" etc.. Maybe I just dress really well and gusy in the area are very fashion aware...
- as I jog by, random guy checks me out and says "nice form, keep it up"
-younger guy asks me to dance and, while dancing, bashfully says "respectfully, you seem like an older woman, but you are very good looking" (this one really cracked me up)
- the friendly manager at a regular work lunch spot (now closed) who, almost every time I went would make some part of my lunch "on the house" (this was a running joke with my work colleagues who'd go with me and never got anything for free; they used to call him my "boyfriend")