Girl looking at you in class

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OP, two things work on girls. Walk up to her say either:

1. I might not look like it, but I can run really fast!

2. Uh, perhaps you can help me? I'm looking for a love-potion aerosol, that I can spray on a certain Penthouse Pet, to obtain her total submission.
 
Hey guys, I'm going to visit an acquaintance in India for a week and I'll be staying with his family.
I've never been in a situation like this before, so I'm a little nervous about potential pitfalls.
Are there any customs and cultural issues I should be aware of?

GAF response:
"just treat them like people lol"
"This may come as a shock to you, but Indians are people too!"
"wtf are you socially retarded?"
"If you haven't learned Indian customs by your age, I don't know what to tell you."

Do you seriously equate the opposite sex to a foreign culture?
 
Do you seriously equate the opposite sex to a foreign culture?

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That not good enough for you? Well, don't worry, here's another ridiculous metaphor for you!
 
Do you seriously equate the opposite sex to a foreign culture?
Are you seriously trying to say that men and women don't have their own subcultures?
You think the life experience of women is identical to that of men?
Do you live in an egalitarian paradise?

But that isn't even the point.
The point is OP is asking for advice on what is expected in a situation he's not familiar with.

The act of walking up to a stranger of the opposite sex and striking up a conversation out of the blue is specifically an expression of romantic/sexual interest. (Either that or they're trying to sell something.)
Does a heterosexual man walk up to another man on the other side of the room and say, "Hey, I think I saw you looking at me. Want to be friends? We can hang out or play WoW or something."
No, that would be considered weird. There's no particular reason why it should be weird, but as it happens, people currently think it is. Men don't make friends by going up to men they think look nice.

In other words, the situation of a man suddenly starting a conversation with another man he doesn't know is not the same situation as a man suddenly starting a conversation with a woman he doesn't know, which is why "women are just people" is not particularly useful advice. Or rather, it's the right answer to the wrong question.
There are meanings and rules and expectations for particular social situations, and those are what OP is asking about.

There's a massive thread in OT regarding the topic of whether it's even acceptable for a man to approach a woman in public and strike up a conversation, with women chiming in on what is and isn't creepy. That's exactly the sort of thing Heavy's asking about.
 
Are you seriously trying to say that men and women don't have their own subcultures?
You think the life experience of women is identical to that of men?
Do you live in an egalitarian paradise?

No, I asked you if you honestly thought your example was any good. By the response, I'm thinking "no".

The point is OP is asking for advice on what is expected in a situation he's not familiar with.

So he's never talked to a classmate of his? Or do you think the sex of the classmate transforms the situation into something completely different?

The act of walking up to a stranger of the opposite sex and striking up a conversation out of the blue is specifically an expression of romantic/sexual interest. (Either that or they're trying to sell something.)

Oh, I guess this answers my previous question. Nevermind then.
 
No, I asked you if you honestly thought your example was any good. By the response, I'm thinking "no".



So he's never talked to a classmate of his? Or do you think the sex of the classmate transforms the situation into something completely different?



Oh, I guess this answers my previous question. Nevermind then.
Don't play dumb.
Asking the person sitting next to me about test questions or lab work is not the same thing as singling out someone on the other side of the room to ask out for lunch.
 
In my microbiology class there's a really attractive girl that sits on the other side of the room that I've caught looking my way on a number of occasions. This is the lab room (M/W/F lecture, thursday is lab) so we don't sit in rows. Anyway, she doesn't smile or anything but I've caught her looking a bunch of times, today's lab probably 4-5 times. Quick looks then look away or i'll look away fast cause I don't want her to think i'm looking at her too. Now if we were sitting closer and she was looking then I wouldn't have made this thread (prob shouldn't have regardless) but this is the lab, with her in the top left (pink) and me bottom right (blue), the lines indicate the eye sight angle.

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I'm in my late 20s she's probably like 20 or 21 but I have a young face and look in my mid 20s (people are always surprised when i tell them how old i am). I'm tall and fat, not obese but i could lose like 20 lbs for sure. My face looks fat and i have a belly. You can kind of tell that my face would approach decent looking if i lost some weight, i also wear pretty nice clothes even to lab. Nothing super expensive, just well kept clothes that are pressed, clean, bright, and im groomed and try not to look like a bum when im outside the house.

Never had a girlfriend or anything so im a bit surprised that this is happening, assuming if it's anything at all. She's really pretty, like a legit 'hot girl'. Does this kind of eye locking mean anything? If we were sitting across from each other that's one thing but across the room like that? It seems odd. I haven't talked to her yet the semester just started on August 27 and won't be finished till the middle of December. So is this anything or what? any other tips.

Yea i know say "hi" i'll do that eventually and try to make a joke, most people laugh at my jokes in real life, tend to be sarcastic but not over-the-top sarcasm or self-deprecating. I'm always either on time exactly or late to class so i haven't had a chance to say hi before class but after class i guess it could work, probably after a lecture since we all leave at different times for the lab. I don't want to force it like make it obvious that i'm trying hard to talk to her after class, like walking fast up to her if she's ahead of me or something, I want it to look cool and natural. I can carry a conversation pretty good after that. Looked her up on facebook and she's not listed, probably has it on unsearchable.

She also wears a t-shirt jersey (just a t-shirt with a number on the back) pretty often and really short black shorts, my point is that I have a theory that girls who wear this kind of dressed down attire tend to have a boyfriends much more often than girls who wear something stylish, have make-up, jewelry, etc. So she might have a bf, or maybe not, who knows.
good lord... be a man, sack up and go talk to her
 
There's some amazing .gif wizardry going on in this thread, but the quality of the actual jokes in the gifs is not high.

Sunhi and Timedog both need comedy ghostwriters to up their game even more.
 
Don't play dumb.
Asking the person sitting next to me about test questions or lab work is not the same thing as singling out someone on the other side of the room to ask out for lunch.

Any particular reason it has to happen within the room and not after the class or something? I mean if the advice given was something like "just treat them like people lol", would you take it as advice to "single out someone on the other side of the room to ask out for lunch"? Because I certainly wouldn't, since that's not how I "treat people lol".

But hey, if you, or the OP for that matter, have to think about these sort of things this much, your analogy was probably spot on and you probably are better equipped to help the OP.
 
Any particular reason it has to happen within the room and not after the class or something?
Sorry, not sure what you're getting at there.
Maybe we're not talking about the same topic.

OP's motivation for approaching this individual person, as opposed to anyone else in the class, is romantic/sexual in nature.
He knows nothing about her. His motivation is driven purely by (a) he suspects she's romantically interested in him, and probably also (b) he thinks she's at least somewhat good looking. (Although we don't know the ratio of those. OP said he's never had a girlfriend, so (a) may be far more significant than (b).)

Now, unless you think a man in this situation should hide their real interest and pretend they're approaching the person for some other reason (the "Nice Guy" approach) then he's going to need to express "I'm attracted to you and hoping we will wind up dating" in some fashion.
There are generally going to be socially acceptable and unacceptable ways of accomplishing this (culturally dependent), so someone who's never done it before asking for info about that isn't anything strange.
It's quite easy to be out of touch with current dating culture, specially if you're almost a decade older than the people around you.
 
There's a massive thread in OT regarding the topic of whether it's even acceptable for a man to approach a woman in public and strike up a conversation, with women chiming in on what is and isn't creepy. That's exactly the sort of thing Heavy's asking about.

Except people here already have stated a couple of times, you could begin with a simple smile.

She looks at him again.... he smiles... If she smiles back, wait till the end of the class and start a conversation.
There's no magic to it. I could list a lot of things not to say: Wanna be my gf? or Want to suck my dick? But that seems rather obvious.

A simple: Hi, how are you? What did you think about today's class? What other classes do you go to etc. My name is Heavy by the way, what's yours, hey wanna go for a cup of coffee.

Something like that. There are no strict guidelines we can give him. We are not there, we don't know what she'll say, there are no golden lines that instantely work.
 
On one hand, he should talk to her.

On the other, she could go talk to him instead of just staring at him all the time.

No way, if she's hot then its not happening. Hot girls have this mentality where the guy should go up to them to spark a convo. When I go to bars and there's a couple hot chicks in a spot where they aren't getting attention, they'll move go a spot where its more likely to happen.
 
Except people here already have stated a couple of times, you could begin with a simple smile.

She looks at him again.... he smiles... If she smiles back, wait till the end of the class and start a conversation.
There's no magic to it. I could list a lot of things not to say: Wanna be my gf? or Want to suck my dick? But that seems rather obvious.

A simple: Hi, how are you? What did you think about today's class? What other classes do you go to etc. My name is Heavy by the way, what's yours, hey wanna go for a cup of coffee.

Something like that. There are no strict guidelines we can give him. We are not there, we don't know what she'll say, there are no golden lines that instantely work.
I'm not mocking every post in the thread (or other threads of this nature), just the smug-yet-useless ones.
 
Man... what the hell is going on with Gaf lately and really socially awkward posts.

GAF WHAT IS GOING ON
Help me GAF I am waiting in line at the grocery store and there's a cute girl in front of me but I'm afraid of what to do about this tumor on my face that's covered with spiders and I accidentally ran into her car while I was following her home and now should I say sorry please tell me and also when will she wake up
 
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