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It was pretty funny when women thought "how would you feel if" would work in this case. They clearly didn't know how starved of positive attention men are.
Yeah, no one has ever told me that I had a beautiful smile and that I should smile more... I never get compliments and very rarely get any appreciation. I helped a friend of a friend fix electrical issues saving him thousands that he didn't have? Just a generic "thanks." The guy offered to feed me because his wife was getting chinese but his wife didn't get me any and they just ate their food while I worked.
Where I live 12 beers or a bottle of vodka is the standard payment
positive attention
So starved of positive attention that you mistake creepy demands for compliments?
you look cute
Definitely a compliment
you should smile more
Dunno what the intention was, I read it as "you look cute when you smile" but could be "you would look (even) cuter if you smiled". If it's either of those, that's going to my compliment book.
And yes, men are famine level starved of positive attention. So this "creepy demand" (demand??) defintely would count for me.
Last week people in Lemmy were arguing that someone knocking on your doorstep was akin to being a hostage, so yeah, they would clearly think of that as "demand"