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With the recent changes in social norms, I'm just not sure where the line of appropriateness is anymore. Unfortunately I think a lot of people are just going to
by switchbak 5y ago
With the recent changes in social norms, I'm just not sure where the line of appropriateness is anymore. Unfortunately I think a lot of people are just going to avoid giving genuine/non-creepy compliments to the opposite gender because of that, which is a shame. Thank god I'm not dating any more!
- nicbou 5y agoWhen I was in Morocco, people started talking to me, and when I responded with customary friendliness, they tried to sell me something. It didn't take me long to perceive their friendliness as the disguised first line of a sales pitch. After a while I became a lot less keen to talk to friendly strangers. I wouldn't blame the "change in social norms", but the people who poisoned the well by using compliments as a foot in the door.