How do girls feel about being approached in the street?

Obviously they don't, but I'm talking about dressing in a way that's obviously going to creep someone out that's going to mess up your interactions with people.

What right don't I have? We all have that right. By that logic, we shouldn't compliment anyone at all.

Granted. Once again, as stated, when done like a decent human being, the interaction will end. Why are you encouraging women to live in fear of men?

*Sigh* You just don't get it. You're too determined to see men as villains.

I'm off to lunch.

I would personally hate it and be very creeped out and would try and get away asap. I wouldn't give out my number to someone I had literally just met. If it were in the exact same situation you described where I am at a restaurant with a friend and you just came over, I would fine it awkward and rude to be interrupted.

Some girls maybe would like to be randomly approached and some would hate it. Its hit or miss I'm afraid. I can't imagine most girls like being approached by a random stranger asking for their number though.

What you say:

"hey I know this is really random but, I saw you had a great smile and just decided I wanted to take a moment to come meet you."

What she hears:

"hey, I don't respect social boundaries. Wanna find out what other boundaries I don't respect? I'll give you a clue, it begins with an r, and ends with me ****ing your dismembered corpse"

I wouldn't go as far as to call them creeps, but if they're being persistent or not leaving you alone then yeah.

Also want to point out that this creepy business is a part of British culture. Most other places in the world, people approach other people and it isn't seen as weird, especially places like the USA. Don't know where this idea developed in Britain whereby you're advised to be scared of everybody.

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I'm sorry, but you're very badly wrong. Please see the everyday sexism project for more details. Women do not appreciate being constantly harassed when they're just trying to go about their daily business.

This is no laughing matter. Please do not harass strangers and make this country a less safe and pleasant place for us all to live in.

its called "respecting the right to privacy". People don't necessarily want to be constantly harassed and approached by potential suitors when they're walking down the street. People would stop going down the street altogether if this kind of behaviour was allowed to go unchecked, and then the streets would descend into a lawless anarchy.

Its also the reason pubs exist. If you're open to being approached, you go in a pub. Everywhere else, you expect your right to privacy to be respected.

This is very sad to hear. Britain is once again going back into some sort of repressed Victorian like state where people must not show their feelings, speak nor dare express themselves.

There is nothing wrong with going up to someone and talking to them, whether they are a man or a woman. If you notice they are clearly feeling awkward or they directly tell you they must be on their way then you leave them to go on their daily business. How do you ever go about meeting people? I assume you are not a hermit.

I'm sorry but you sound like you want to make this country a very cold, unfriendly and inhospitable place.

It happens in places like America though, didn't know there was a lawless anarchy brewing there.

And there is a type of way to talk to people that wouldn't make them creeped out, it's not that difficult. Regardless of what you say, many girls still respond to being chatted up on the street and many of them even go out for drinks with them. It's definitely not unheard of and not every woman subscribes to the everyday sexism project as a rule of life.

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You're once again confused between casually chatting to someone in a socially acceptable manner, which is entirely acceptable and making an overtly sexual approach to a complete stranger, which is not.

Your conclusions are 100% wrong. Just because someone is a woman does not make it ok to go and harass them with complements and sexual comments and make them feel uncomfortable and scared.

I've lived in America, verbally harassing people in the street is likely to get you shot.

There is no type of way to talk to people that makes it ok to harass them. They have not asked you to pay them a pitifully transparent complement, so don't.

Who are you? Why do you keep saying that talking to someone is sexual harassment. You either live in fear of women or you're trying to make women fear men. Either way your views are divisive, perverted and damn right offensive. A society that condemns people from speaking to each other is a very fractured society. I'm not going to entertain you any longer. Either you're a troll and I applaud you for being successful or you are a person who is deeply scared of life and are there to stop people from meeting each other in the street. To you, you must be paying money (at a bar or whatever) to meet someone and that's a sad state of affairs.

I shall not reply to any further quotes from you on this topic.

Simply the act of breaking the social norm of approaching and attempting to talk to a stranger in the street is going to creep out 99% of women when they realise your intent.

If you want to appear a normal, safe (ie non-rapist) guy, you need to find a way of talking to women without breaking social boundaries.

If you really must insist on attempting to chat up complete strangers, please restrict your activities to places where it is socially acceptable to do so, such as pubs, bars and parties.

Simply the act of breaking the social norm of approaching and attempting to talk to a stranger in the street is going to creep out 99% of women when they realise your intent.

I haven't lived there but I've been on holiday several times and I also observe that people are a lot more laid back and talk to strangers a lot more easily. That is the point of a compliment though, the fact that it wasn't asked or required, it's just a random act of being nice and making someone feel better, what's wrong with that?

What would you consider verbal harassment?

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People give approach signals that make it socially acceptable, usually in places like you've mentioned but might also give it off in the street. I've gone up to strangers before when they were 'making the eyes' if you want to call it that and things have been great from there.

I'm sorry but I don't believe you're talking from experience. It's possible to talk to people you don't know without being creepy - if you are talking from experience then maybe something about the way you've done it has had a creepy vibe.