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Re:It Doesn’t Count Unless I Know You’re Hitting on Me. by jscore on Friday December 03, 2010 @06:52AM (#1965501)
Two things:

1. You're a woman, and men will hit on you, and that's not a bad thing; it's biology.

2. If you think SF men are aggressive, then obviously you haven't been out much. I don't think I've been anywhere in the world that's LESS aggressive than SF when it comes to dating/mating. Go to Brazil and see what aggressiveness is.

Re:It Doesn’t Count Unless I Know You’re Hitting on Me. by hugh3 on Friday December 03, 2010 @09:54AM (#1966010)
All she's complaining about is not that she gets hit on, but that she keeps getting hit on in the wrong way. She gives her contact details out to men whom she thinks want to be business contacts, who then wind up calling her for dates.

It's a simple rule: if you meet a woman and you're interested in her in that way, then hit on her properly and ask her for her number in a way that makes your intentions non-ambiguous. If you're interested in her professionally then by all means exchange business cards. If you're interested in her in both ways then... well, choose one.

Re:It Doesn’t Count Unless I Know You’re Hitting on Me. by buro9 on Friday December 03, 2010 @07:57AM (#1965634)
#2 doesn't make it right.

Does a woman not have the right not to face that? If you've got a girl, don't you feel personally that she shouldn't have to face that?

At what point are aggressive come-ons just harassment?

Re:It Doesn’t Count Unless I Know You’re Hitting on Me. by enjo on Friday December 03, 2010 @09:40AM (#1965930)
From my perspective? No, she really doesn't have the right not to face that. She's a woman. It's biology. Part of being a human being is interacting with other human beings, many of home would like to sleep with you.

She should have to deal with harrasment? Nope, but that's a different thing entirely. Somebody scoping out your card and then asking you out on a date isn't harassing you. They're asking you on a date. It's what happens after you say 'no' that things become different.

Re:It Doesn’t Count Unless I Know You’re Hitting on Me. by jscore on Friday December 03, 2010 @08:51AM (#1965752)
"Does a woman not have the right not to face that?"

Are you speaking for ALL women?

In Brazil, women love it when you aggressively peruse them.

In SF, men don't talk to women, and women's number one complaint is exactly that.