Speaking of culture and cultural appropriation, isn't it interesting how we put FULL blame on Middle East culture and don't even spend a second examining our Western culture and how overly sexualized it is.

Texting a girl "Good morning beautiful", a relatively harmless compliment, can insight 2 reactions from a girl - "aww, how cute" and "ugh, what a creep". Similarly, if a guy in a nightclub starts to grind on a female stranger, and that stranger finds the guy attractive, it is considered "flirting", whereas if she doesn't consider the guy attractive it can land anywhere between "creepy" and "sexual harassment". (By the by, I'm not one for this style of seduction, however it is a fairly common style in the Western world, and regardless of your standpoint on whether a guy "has the right" to begin grinding without first asking consent, the girl will react differently thus obscuring the line, leaving it to be drawn only after the act and reaction has occurred).

The same could be seen a less sexually-overtoned manner in the act of, I don't know, offering to buy a girl a drink in the bar, or walking up to a girl on the street and asking her if she wants to go for a coffee.

Hell, one of my friends was called a "creep" and "probably a rapist" because he asked he told a girl, online, that he was going to take his dog for a walk and asked if she wanted to join him (It was their first conversation).

In these instances, the context doesn't change, and the personality isn't overly apparent except for the act itself, thus the attractive guy could really be far more creepy than his less attractive counterpart, but wouldn't be conceived as such due to the girl's attraction towards him.

And it goes for anything from that point onwards as well, acts that would be considered "cute" for one person to do would be considered "creepy" from another based entirely upon the girl's internal perception of the guy:- showing up at her house in the middle of the night, randomly texting her, or texting her in sequence without receiving a response, giving her random gifts to show their affection, saying "I love you", "I miss you", or anything similar, complimenting their appearance.

they're less cute because they can't get away with things.

And that's the point - and whether they can get away with it or not relies on how she perceives him which will, in most first-time circumstances when these problems become apparent, come down to whether or not she finds him physically appealing enough to act in such a manner towards her, something men aren't privy to before hand.

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