That's exactly what it means.Smack said:Girls communicate feelings rather than direct meanings like us guys. When she says "I think you're gay" she is communicating a feeling - that she is into you and wants you to make a move!
Attraction runs on a clock.
She flirted for weeks. Touched your arm. Found reasons to be alone with you. And you were careful. Respectful. Waiting for the right moment.
The moment had a shelf life. It expired around month two, and by the time you asked her out, she'd quietly filed you under "little brother."
One of the hardest lessons inside the 22 Rules: women rarely wait. Interest either grows or it decays, and nothing decays it faster than a man who never moves.
Make the move while she's still inventing reasons to be near you.
That's exactly what it means.Smack said:Girls communicate feelings rather than direct meanings like us guys. When she says "I think you're gay" she is communicating a feeling - that she is into you and wants you to make a move!
You paid for dinner. You drove. You said "whatever you want is fine" every single time. All the effort, no expectations.
And she left anyway — probably for a guy who makes her pick up the pizza.
Painful. Also predictable. Her mind quietly concludes that anything requiring zero effort from her is worth exactly zero. You became a free sample, and free samples get taken for granted.
The 22 Rules flip the dynamic. Small shifts that get her investing effort, money, and time in you — until SHE'S the one afraid of losing YOU.
I think that you're really missing the point and are forgetting an important fact about women: what they say does not have to be in any way connected to what they feel. Her questioning your sexuality is her teasing you. She's into you and wants you to ask her out. She wants you to prove that you're not gay. Maybe she's disappointed that you haven't asked her out yet and is trying to send you a subtle signal.Telos said:Yes, women often communicate with immediate feeling opposed to rationality, but how the hell do you come to the conclusion that "I think you're gay" translates emotionally to "I am into you"? Even if a woman says this to you in the most playful and innocuous way possible, I don't know how you can possibly think that it's a good sign.
Smack, you posted a thread back in May about targeted feminist messages coming from society and Rollo responded with the following:
The bottom line that you yourself argued is that women are attracted to men.
If a woman says "I think you're gay", whether joking or not, there exists a conscious or unconscious thread in her mind leading her to directly question your masculinity. Even if she was just teasing you to provoke a reaction, why would you ever want to associate yourself in any way to homosexuality?
I know a lot of you are probably thinking something along the lines of "Dude, it's just a joke, she doesn't really mean it. Stop over analyzing, she's teasing you", and if so you would be completely missing the point. Even if she happens to just be teasing you, every time you continue to allow an association like that pass--either by playing along or allowing it to perpetuate--you continue to diminish your perceived masculinity or at the very least open the door for this to take place. Think about it. You are effectively anchoring the POLAR OPPOSITE of what women INHERENTLY and FUNDAMENTALLY find attractive TO YOURSELF.
You've replayed it a hundred times. She stood three feet away, scrolling her phone. You had an opening. You composed the perfect line — after she was gone.
For all you know, she's married now. To some guy who said something. Anything.
Openers are cheap. Almost any sentence works when it's delivered within three seconds. The expensive part is the standing there, drafting and deleting, while the window quietly closes.
The "22 Rules" stripped out my hesitation. What to open with, how to keep it alive, and the one habit that costs guys more women than anything else: waiting for perfect.