I rejected someone last night: Do you think this is mean?

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IrishTusk
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25 Feb 2013, 6:25 am

Have you even asked the girl you liked out if you've not it's cheeky that you'll reject some one that blunty yet don't have the nerve to askyour own crush out.


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25 Feb 2013, 11:38 am

Update: I didn't think it was mean at all myself. I kind of knew what this girl was looking for and I wasn't interested in that. The way she was acting I can tell that I bruised her ego a little bit. I don't consider that my problem really, I told her I wasn't interested and she handled it by dancing with other guys while also looking at me to see how I react. I don't have any assumptions as to whether she found the other guys attractive, but the fact she kept looking at me was proof enough that she wanted me to react to her.

As far as asking someone out, I invited the whole group out including the girl-friend as well as the person I am actually going on dates with (the date couldn't make it). To further add to the not being so cheeky:

I even had a problem with some guy dancing with the girl-friend later on. It wasn't so much the fact that he was dancing with her, it was the moment he decided to take things too far. I watched him high five his buddies as he was dancing. I let it slide until I watched him grab the girl's boobs voluntarily and without her consent. I stepped in and got him off her. He gave me the look afterwards that he didn't like me doing that, almost like "What did I do?" To further irritate him, the girl-friend voluntarily, albeit a little drunk herself, hugged me a few minutes later. His buddies did nothing and neither did he.



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25 Feb 2013, 5:22 pm

BlueMax wrote:
95% odds she only wanted one thing from you that night...
That’s one way to pick up a disease…



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25 Feb 2013, 6:58 pm

she mighta been worth springing for a reality FC2 inverse condom.



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25 Feb 2013, 9:35 pm

You handled it better than I would have! If some stranger grabbed my ass, male or female, they'd be getting slapped or a call to police!


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26 Feb 2013, 10:38 am

She seemed pretty forward, I doubt it put a dent in her dating adventures. People like that aren't hurt as badly by rejection they just move on to the next. I think your reaction was pretty decent.



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26 Feb 2013, 10:59 pm

You both rejected each other, at least that's what I get from what you wrote.



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26 Feb 2013, 11:05 pm

You shouldn't feel bad. She violated your space.

If you had done that to her, pinching her ass, you'd have been asking for sexual harassment charges, or worse, an ass kicking. If we are all indeed equal, than it should go both ways, and she should've been more courteous and respectful of your boundaries. There is a right and a wrong way to approach somebody, and she did it the wrong way. You were in the right and hopefully she learned a good lesson about how to approach people. Namely, treating them like a human being and not a piece of meat.



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27 Feb 2013, 8:39 am

Misunderstandings happen all the time and people go out to pubs/clubs to basically pick up. In this particular scene contact can become more appropriate, especially on the dance floor. By what you are saying it is obvious that she was trying to pick you up but everyone is different so it's hard to tell what people are comfortable with. Personally, I wouldn't like to be pinched on the ass either.

As far as being rude goes you could have elaborated a bit as to why you weren't interested but I don't think she was that offended because the way she asked you seemed like she just wanted to know, regardless of the answer.

Anyway nice job :wink:



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27 Feb 2013, 1:38 pm

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It doesn't seem overly mean to me. If anything that'd be a job well done genders reversed.



I agree. If you behave like a 5-year-old like that girl did, disturbing you when you where talking to and dancing with that other girl, she deserves to be rejected and ignored.



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28 Feb 2013, 12:00 am

NO! Actually it should have been meaner. She was a no-class, sloppy, inebriated douchebag.
Oh gee wizz...let's not hurt the feelings of the aggressive slapper in the pub. She had to work up a lot of nerve to come and talk to you?! She had a heck of a lot of nerve!! That b***h does that ALL the time. A person has to work up a lot of nerve to what?? Pinch your ass. That's disgusting. Would you believe that some absolute b***h tried to pick up my husband in an art museum right in front of my kids? My elder son was furious. My younger son kept on begging me to make this woman go away. Where are people's heads? Have they no boundaries?



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28 Feb 2013, 12:15 am

HeyimJoel wrote:
Misunderstandings happen all the time and people go out to pubs/clubs to basically pick up. In this particular scene contact can become more appropriate, especially on the dance floor. By what you are saying it is obvious that she was trying to pick you up but everyone is different so it's hard to tell what people are comfortable with. Personally, I wouldn't like to be pinched on the ass either.

As far as being rude goes you could have elaborated a bit as to why you weren't interested but I don't think she was that offended because the way she asked you seemed like she just wanted to know, regardless of the answer.

Anyway nice job :wink:


This was a complete stranger in an establishment that sells liquor. "I'm not interested" is quite enough to say.



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28 Feb 2013, 6:23 am

cathylynn wrote:
perhaps nicer would have been, "you're attractive, but i'm with someone else." or some similar compliment before letting her know you weren't available.



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28 Feb 2013, 6:34 am

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Was this rejection mean?

No. It was perfect. You really were not interested and you responded in a way that didn't leave any room for doubt. Anything less clear or more elaborate may have seemed like an opening to her. You did a favor for both of you.
PS: You didn't insult her, you just said no.


Agree too. Happened to me once in a bar once, except i was with a male friend, he just laughed. The girls that were with you probably identified with the girl and qwyed, so its a matter of perspective, they probably want all men to be knights in shining armor, that is a hard image to project when some women are heartless narcissistic a**holes. I do not ever bother anymore, both men and women are evil to eachother.

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BlueMax wrote:
95% odds she only wanted one thing from you that night...
That’s one way to pick up a disease…


Condom.


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28 Feb 2013, 10:08 am

Brianruns10 wrote:
You shouldn't feel bad. She violated your space.

If you had done that to her, pinching her ass, you'd have been asking for sexual harassment charges, or worse, an ass kicking. If we are all indeed equal, than it should go both ways, and she should've been more courteous and respectful of your boundaries. There is a right and a wrong way to approach somebody, and she did it the wrong way. You were in the right and hopefully she learned a good lesson about how to approach people. Namely, treating them like a human being and not a piece of meat.


You as well as everyone else is right when you say it wasn't mean and I shouldn't have felt bad. But in particular to your comments about if we do it and getting sexual harassment charages or an asskicking... Neither is worse than the other IMO, it's like a double edged sword. An asskicking is something that could leave your permanently injured if that was the goal of the other person in the fight. Harassment charges on the other hand will stick to you regardless of a conviction. (Once your name is published in a paper for such a crime, you will always have that reputation.)



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28 Feb 2013, 12:45 pm

Ichinin wrote:
Tahitiii wrote:
BlueMax wrote:
95% odds she only wanted one thing from you that night...
That’s one way to pick up a disease…

Condom.

Condoms are not the 100% failsafe most people think they are... much like putting on a radiation suit doesn't mean you should wander into a nuclear reactor.

A girl like that could be so diseased the condom would dissolve. :lol: :twisted:

Safer sex includes reducing high-risk partners.