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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Americancyco" data-source="post: 567533" data-attributes="member: 9136">On the topic of girls taking it the wrong way.  I have seen this happen a lot not only at conventions but in daily life.  I'm not saying most of the guys at Cons aren't hitting on the girls (most of the time they are) but there have been times when a girl just thinks everyone wants her and if someone is just being friendly they take it the wrong way.  This has happened to me at work.  Thie younger girl that worked in a different department thought I was hitting on her.  I wasn't just bored and talking.  She then told one of her friends the long haired guy with tattoos was hitting on her until her friend (who was at my wedding) set her straight.  After that she turned out to be really cool.A few years back in Choicago at a Godzilla convention I went with my ex girlfirend.  Now she was hot and a lot of guys where chekcing her out.  But that was the extent of it.  She felt everyone there was weird and talked in a starnge language.  The language that comes with knowing way too much information about Godzilla <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />.  But she was also a girl that felt every time a guy asked her for the time he was hitting on her.  It drove me crazy and I can speak from first hand knowledge some girls do react this way.Another convention I went to at a college I meet a few girls there that just loved getting the attention from guys.  Almost to the point of where it could have turned into something dangerous.  There was this one girl I was hanging with most of the convention, (I meet her at a oriental adventures game I ran) but she just loved the attention from guys.  There where a few other ones there also.But I do agree that most of the guys I have meet at Cons have probally never had a date or really talked to a girl in a social setting.  You can usually tell the guys that have and the ways that haven't.  Drolling usually is a dead give away for me.  But I have also noticed a lot of these same guys are still too shy to o up and talk to girls or if they do it's usually something to do with Vampires, wizards or about their 97th level elven ranger named Bob.  We all know what a great pick up line that is.Over all what I'm trying to say is it works all ways.  Guys can be jerks (as in the extreme case of the poor girl that was attacked and later died).  That is truely a very sad story.  No one should ever suffer so much for something that is just harmless fun.  Some guys are just harmless and clueless.  Some girls over re-act and some people just love the attention and risk putting themselves in a dangerous situation.</blockquote>

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