In general, I whole heartedly agree with you. I have not personally approached a girl at the gym with the intent of romantic entanglement. I’m at the gym to get through a few sets and get back to my day. My point was simply that not everyone feels that way, strictly speaking, and if someone is smiling my direction…

I’m actually exceedingly curious why you felt that way, but I’m happy that my point is made more clearly in subsequent posts. I honestly can’t imagine being more respectful when I’m out and about and, before I was married at least, I was never aggressive about meeting people, I just never closed myself off. I truly…

Look at your posts for Christ’s sake. You calling anyone a troll is projecting so badly that I almost feel like you’re being ironic. And tiny hands? Is that you @realDonaldTrump?

Yep, that’s cute. A whole lot of assumptions wrapped up in that frustrated little ball there. No, I do not believe anything is a numbers game, because that whittles women, who are people, down to things to be won. I’m actually really disappointed that you see it that way based on the way you pictured that interaction…

Oh, I completely agree. Cat-calling a girl is not hitting on her. It’s never appreciated. And I’d also agree that “hitting on” a girl is never the way to go. My argument is that there is no inappropriate place to go about meeting a person you might be interested in as long as you’re polite, respectful and sensitive to…

Me too. It’s a real shame.

I’ve made this very clear every time I’ve posted, but I’m happy to come out and say it again. If my completely Socially Acceptable behavior creeps you out? That’s your God damned problem. Feel free to say no thank you, feel free to respond in anyway your wish, but your response above is unacceptable and rude. It makes…

Haha, my post was dripping with sarcasm. To your latter point, there is no Bible on the interpretation of body language. If someone is exceedingly shy, that tight lipped smile and a quick hello may have been the best they could get out and shouldn’t necessarily be interpreted as anything in a general sense. Obv…

That’s the beauty of it though, and the danger of making a person’s RESPONSE to a thing the gold standard for whether that thing is appropriate or not. Your job as the guy is to act normal and have a respectful conversation with a woman like you would ANYONE ELSE. If she’s not interested? Say “it was nice meeting you”…

This. Honestly, if I were a moderator on this site? I’d delete all of these garbage posts telling people anything but this. Just because a woman is there for a different reason than meeting a partner doesn’t mean the idea disgusts or scares her. If you’re afraid that an interaction with you is going to cause HER some…

Thank God I bothered to keep going through these comments to get to a few women’s opinions. What these guys don’t get is that you met people all day, every day and you never know when you’ll run into someone that can change your life forever. Drawing arbitrary boundaries around when it’s “ok” to flirt, or socialize or…

Honestly? I didn’t understand what exactly a weak person was until I started to read your posts. Now, I still can’t define it, but I definitely know one when I see one.

Boo hoo his poor wife for likely SO many reasons based on the way he views women.

Wait, it’s almost like you’ve been on a date and/or interacted with another human before! You mean it’s ok to just go out and serendipitously meet people anywhere you’d like as long as it’s done with a moderate amount of respect for the other person as a human being??? Whoa!

That’s a pretty ballsy move to call him dense and continue to post this drivel.

Don’t waste your time on him anymore. I’d bet if he actually has a wife, he apologizes profusely after sex in case she feels violated, never compliments her cause it might her feel objectified and never goes anywhere without her in case he accidentally assaults another woman by breathing the same air.

No, but that’s a straw man argument. Barring the fact that I was genuinely shocked to read that you have a wife (seriously, don’t you think the institution of marriage due to our modern patriarchy puts your poor, victim wife at an inherent disadvantage and cause her an intense amount of discomfort/fear every day?),…

*vomits in mouth*

Only operating in places where girls go specifically to meet people won’t help you with that. If anything, it will only make you more likely to over extend and come off creepy. Body language is something I’d put work into; there’s no part of life that it won’t help a LOT.

No. No, they don’t. And people like you need to stop saying otherwise. You have completely missed my point, and that of the author of this post. Men/women/people don’t have “accessibility” to me “modulated” because those are robot terms. As I demonstrated with my story, my wife was not set to “Accessible” mode when I…