>When I do the same thing, I seem to mostly get one of three responses: 1) romantic interest I'll bet a LOT of men wish that they'd receive some romantic inter

>When I do the same thing, I seem to mostly get one of three responses: 1) romantic interest I'll bet a LOT of men wish that they'd receive some romantic interest when they're helpful to people, even if it means they have to decline some of it. I think it kinda says something that men pretty much never get any romantic interest (they always have to initiate it, even in this supposed age of gender equality), and that women complain about men showing romantic interest, but men doing this is precisely the only way they're ever going to have a romantic relationship because women never show romantic interest themselves. Women demand for men to always be the initiators, but then complain when men initiate (presumably because it's not the men they're interested in). Maybe if there were a lot more equity in romantic initiation, this wouldn't be such a problem. >3) people stop speaking to me (I have opinions about some of the reasons for that, but this is not the place for that). This one's just weird, and I would like to hear your opinions here.