The Worst

What are some “the worst she can say is no” horror stories men of reddit have experienced asking a girl out?

In fact, the worst she can say is not “no.”

She can make you a social pariah and ruin your entire life. Fairly common among women just for asking them out politely.

Also, a lot of women believe that if any guy is friends with you, and is later attracted to you, he became friends with you just to attempt to sleep with you.

Ladies, this is FUCKING MORONIC. You’re being a clownish idiot by believing that.

Strangely, it is possible (and common) to befriend someone and after getting to know them, become attracted to them. Even if you don’t act on it, it’s still true! It has happened to me. A woman friend I had 0.0% attraction to at first after I got to know how sweet and fun she was, I later was attracted to her. It happens!

That women think this is absolutely impossible is fucking mystifying.

Inferior Prude

(1) VB Knives on X: "As with many things, dating co-workers has been formally discouraged for quite a long time. But no one used to pay any attention to all that, it was a joke. Somewhere along the way the rule was actually internalized and taken seriously." / X

I lived through the end of that era, and the older way was better.

Not sure if it’s proper to call society feminized (though even a lot of women don’t like the New Morality) or HR-ized, but it’s certainly vastly inferior and far more prudish. And seemingly getting worse. In the 1980s, about 40% of people met their spouse at work. Which, you know, is only fucking natural, you idiots.

At the first company I worked after the army, everyone was dating everyone else. I went out with three different co-workers (no, none of them worked for me). After that, it started becoming verboten. Which is moronic.

Too tired to do a real sociological analysis of all this, but the HR-ization of society is evil and bad. And is not even good for women, except maybe 1%-ish of PMC liberal women who are atypical.

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