Assumptions about what? That you and the rest of humanity shouldn’t fucking bother people that clearly want to be left alone?

GOOD LORD JUST DON’T BOTHER HER. LEAVE HER ALONE. WHAT THE FRESH HELL IS YOUR PROBLEM?! Comment after comment on this thread defending something that is, by your own admission, NOT AN ISSUE for you. Get a LIFE.

We do ask men out. We just don’t bother strange men out in public to do so because we’re not rude, socially inept morons.

I got dumped by a guy once because I insisted on paying for his lunch.

My sister-in-law showed me an OKCupid conversation where she said to the guy “What you said about going camping alone (with him, before they’d met) made me uncomfortable and I don’t want to meet up with you.”

Maybe more men should learn what my parents taught me in re: candy and videogames: “wants aren’t the same as needs.”

I think I was about six at the time, so it should only take the average dudebro about ten years to grasp that point.

If a woman is reading a book in a bar SHE IS STILL READING. THIS IS NOT HARD. BEING IN A BAR IS NOT A GATEWAY TO A VAGINA.

Are you seriously blaming women for the fact men continually violate their personal space??

If by “approach a woman and ask her out” you mean “go up to a stranger who’s occupying the same space as you are by necessity and bother her,” yeah, I’m an advocate of never doing that shit ever. See my other response to you.

If the space in question is a bar or a coffee shop or whatever, then the two question rule…

Comments like this speak volumes about you and what you think of women.

if a woman is reading alone in a bar, it’s because she wants a drink and to be left alone to drink it. the fact that she wants to do it in a bar rather than at home has nothing to do with you. unless the woman actively looks up from her book and looks over at you, smiles at you or waves or both, or otherwise tries to…

Let me guess I’m “problematic”.

Then maybe she’s there to meet someone else, and someone else is late, or in the bathroom. That’s why I and most of the people I know tend to read at bars/restaurants.

Maybe men could realize that whatever “need” they feel is their own problem, and doesn’t supersede women’s right to be left alone.

The Internet exists. Book clubs and sports teams and mutual friends exist. And at the end of the day...if you’ve got two hands, I’ve got no sympathy.

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