Are women "testing" men?

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And I can't imagine being pursued* by a woman but it sounds awesome

You could very well be, and the pursuer could be testing the pursued. But as I say, the pursued has the monopoly on whether or not it eventually goes in the direction the pursuer wants it to go in. Therefore any kinds of games the pursuer wants to play is at their own risk.

Women are ultimately more selective and exclusive than men. So they're in the kind of position to set tests and games to filter who gets access in a way that men generally are not. Because of this, at the level of every day experience I think men will encounter more tests and games than women will.

I did have a look at the book I mentioned but I feel reluctant to cite it because what I'm saying seems quite common sense. I guess we have different personal experiences which infl what we think of as commonsense though.

The pursuer has more at stake - rejection and the person they chose to pursue.

I also think they way a man pursues a women determines how attracted she will be to him. So she will lose nothing if someone she doesn't choose stops going after her.

Men and women both test their partners.
It isn't evil. It's better to figure out that a relationship won't work out on the first date than it is to find it out three months after the wedding.
I don't know if men or women do it more.

My experience is that women put more thought into relationships, which makes me suspect they'd be more likely to engage in testing. If you're not thinking about a relationship, you certainly won't bother with testing.

I tend to think that women who I think of as 'median' in the sense of having normal jobs, being reasonably healthy etc. normally don't have to do much to attract men. Normally women are quite talkative and sociable and will go out a lot etc. So with that in mind it doesn't seem like it would be much of a big deal if a man who seems nice at first doesn't prove himself. There will be plenty more opportunities etc.

I think a man has only done something wrong once interest in him starts to drop or seize. Men who're wealthy and have high social status apparently don't need to do much as they're a priori attractive to women. On the other hand.. Men who lack certain characteristics are treated more suspiciously and have to prove themselves...

We are seeing it from different perspectives... yours seems quite exceptional and cosmopolitan. Things are much more patriarchal where I'm from.

I didn't mean to make it sound evil btw. It's just something I'm personally frustrated with.

hmmmm you're basically characterising women as golddiggers that sit back and have men flocking to them just because they exist. can see why we are not seeing eye-to-eye.

I don't know, I'm working out people as I go along, but as I say I'm pro-feminist - I've probably read more about feminism than most who call themselves feminists. I'm careful with my generalisations as well. But do I think women are generally more attracted by wealth and high social status than men? Yes of course. Just as men are more attracted by physical features of the opposite sex than women generally are.

My apologies.
I had not realized you were making a joke.