i live in la, where a lot of women have been effectively pulling this shit forever, though not for the same reasons. (it's been because of impossibly high standards combined with some dumb cultural trend where they absolutely refuse to show clear signs of interest even when they're totally into a guy - i've been that guy on multiple occasions myself.) what actually ends up happening is that women don't have the balls to directly reject guys, just act uninterested and blow them off, so it repels all the decent dudes who can take a hint but the the narcissistic douchebags won't stop and the girls eventually break down and date them, get abused, eventually break up, and then the cycle repeats and they never learn anything.
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