Do women flirt with men they have no interest in?

Frog_Prince

2. If so, would a woman flirt meaninglessly with a man they think
unattractive? Yep.

Coinxoperated, why would you do that? To mislead? Personal gain? Or for fun until it gets serious?

go_cat

Frog_Prince wrote: »

Coinxoperated, why would you do that? To mislead? Personal gain? Or for fun until it gets serious?

Because some women like to play games I'm afraid to say.

Come on tell us why you are asking

podperson

1. Yes, many women do. Sometimes it's just part of their personality, sometimes they may find it a bit of fun or are maybe looking for a bit of a compliment or an ego boost from it.

2. I suppose it depends on how you would define 'unattractive'. Just because a woman may not be interested in a guy in that way it doesn't mean that she thinks he's ugly or someone not worth chatting to.

3. I suppose it depends on the woman. I would say flirting for a bit of a fun would be more light and 'on the surface' banter. If she's actually interested it's generally more obvious and she may hint that she'd like to go somewhere/do something etc.

sweetme

I don't flirt unless I find the person attractive/interesting. I fail miserably at working out the difference as to whether someone is flirting with me for fun or out of genuine attraction.

Actually I fail miserably at flirting full stop.

Hermia

Naf wrote: »

Define flirting, that is the biggest problem with finding solutions to this, I think.
Many women (and presumably sometimes men) can get labelled as flirts, when that's just how they are friendly with people in general.

I remember I was on a forum once and a bloke posted asking for advice because his three older female colleagues kept flirting with him and he didn't like it. Some of the other posters asked for examples and the examples he gave were just normal office interaction! Actually, I do remember meeting a male friend of a friend who I knew liked the same obscure films as me. So, I told him I was also a fan and asked him what his favourite film/director/whatever was. After I'd asked him three questions he suddenly snapped, "look, I'm not interested in you, OKAY!". He must have thought every woman who spoke to him wanted his body! :rotfl:

Valli

custardy wrote: »

On the flip side,many men read friendly to mean more than it is

Yep - I once made an innocent comment about a married male colleague I didn't know very well to another male colleague - I said he 'seemed nice' - ie decent and upstanding.

Next minute he was asking me out :eek:

I've also had a few experiences like Hermia's - I have merely made conversation/been friendly and had it totally 'misread'.
Flirting is on a whole different level boys - and involves lots of body language, subtle (and not so subtle) signals, proximity and, possibly, gentle touching (hands/arms;))

System

I'm thinking of that Danica woman in the CBB house a while ago. She took flirting to new levels :eek: In fact she made a career out of it!

miss_independent

Yeah it's a case of "define flirting". I'm naturally friendly and smiley and in the past me being me has resulted in men thinking I'm flirting. Again, I'm a bit of a do-gooder and if I've done something "kind" for someone it has been thought that means I fancy them.

When I do have interest in a man I'm generally too shy to flirt lol!

olibrofiz

I'm naturally friendly, look people in the eye, laugh at their jokes etc, but behave the same with men and women. I cannot read people unless they are really OTT.

So it could be considered I was flirting, although I'm not intentionally doing it - as I don't really know how to do it! If that makes sense!

All I know is I've never succeeded with the blokes I actually do find attractive - so now I've given up :cool:

System

1. Do women flirt with men they have no interest in?

Personally no, I'd have to be attracted to a man to flirt with him. I could be nice to a man but there would be a imaginary line that couldnt be crossed. Flirting would cross that line.

2. If so, would a woman flirt meaninglessly with a man they think unattractive?

No, they might get the idea i was interested and i couldnt lead a man on.

3. How can you tell the difference between flirting for fun and actual attraction?

For me there is no difference. Flirting to someone your attracted to is fun.