Women of Reddit, what innocent behaviors have you changed out of fear you might be mistaken for leading men on?

I mean, I've had that type of interaction by other women.

Story time: I was on set, we were waiting for the director to work out his shot with the actress. I'm the still photographer. I'm making small talk with an extra, and yeah, she's cute but, also - she's super young. I think 17-19? I'm 27. There's no way. I know that. It's just polite banter, some of it is making her laugh but, at some point asked if I could send any pictures I took of her on set. I didn't promise anything but, she gave me her email. Not her number. Her email. I thought nothing more of it. We start filming. Shot gets done, we move onto the next scene. The extra gets placed elsewhere for the next scene. Other women on set, I think they were PA's, turn to me and go "oooh I think she's into you! You didn't bother to get her number?" And I reply to the women, "I really don't think it was like that", one goes "I don't know, she seemed like she was enjoying talking to you!" And I'm like "Well yeah, we're just waiting around".

Now these women planted this idea in my head. She emails me asking for pics. I sent the only two I had of her. I then decide to clarify this idea and ask her if there was in fact something between us. I explain why I'm asking and she replies that yeah, there was nothing there, just banter. Sometimes even other women misconstrue intentions (unless it's happening to them, maybe?).

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