An article giving the “9 reasons” men end up thinking the girl they have their eye on has the hots for them too has lately been the subject of much soul-searching reflection on the more desolate and lovelorn parts of 2ch.
Nothing is quite as pleasing as the moment you realise the person you had your eye on feels the same way about you as you do about them.
We surveyed our male readers about what caused them to think their love was mutual rather than unrequited.
1. She meets your eye a lot
2. She makes a happy face when you meet
3. Your mail exchanges get quite intense
4. She calls you by a special name
5. She asks if there is someone you like
6. People around you point you out as a promising pair
7. She makes efforts to be alone with you
8. She avoids breaking off long conversations, and talks with you as long as possible
9. Her friends scout you out by asking what you think of her
The 2ch version of “mutual love” is rather different in character:
“The third time you meet is mutual love, isn’t it?”
“For people like us, a girl sitting next to you on a bus is liable to be mistaken as being interested in you.”
“I fell for and confessed my love to a girl who met my eye and shook my hand. She told me she had a boyfriend and refused. Die!”
“If girls come and talk to you you really think they have fallen for you, don’t you?”
“She called me by my first name, so I called her with her first name, and she made a ‘haa?’ face. Die, me.”
“When they meet your eyes, you do get the impression they want your kids, don’t you?”
“I made so many mistakes in this area. I’d rather just be a virgin forever now.”
“When I’m alone in the reference room with a girl and they rush to finish their work and hurry out, is it because they feel danger or because they are interested in me?”
“I kept sending a girl mails for 2 weeks but she made virtually no response. I finally got a response!
‘Look, I’m sorry, but could you please stop sending me mails?
Very creepy. Give it a rest, please.’
I was surprised, I didn’t expect this. Who wouldhave thought she’d use a vertically hidden message!”
[In Japanese, the message is two lines and the first character of the first line is ‘su’ and that of the second is ‘ki’]
Well… reminds me of first week of college and instantly gained a harem of 14 girls… they invited me for a meal, so that means it’s like that right? And yeah, I’m the only guy and they want to seat beside me…
I was going to say this list was backwards, but as I look closer I can’t seem to find ANY cognitive reasoning in this. Won’t this lead to misunderstandings?
“For people like us, a girl sitting next to you on a bus is liable to be mistaken as being interested in you”. This actually worked for me once.
1. She meets your eye a lot
-Is there something wrong with my face?
2. She makes a happy face when you meet
-Yeah, I know I’m just a clown
3. Your mail exchanges get quite intense
-That is what you call communication
4. She calls you by a special name
-Calling me names
5. She asks if there is someone you like
-Yeah, I’m just her reference material
6. People around you point you out as a promising pair
-That is what gossip is for
7. She makes efforts to be alone with you
-Who want to be in a crowded place anyway?
8. She avoids breaking off long conversations, and talks with you as long as possible
-She is talkative person and that is all that is to it
9. Her friends scout you out by asking what you think of her
-Again, as a reference material
*sad face*
1. She meets your eye a lot
-Is there something wrong with my face?
(true and is polity to look from time to time someone while talking with someone)
2. She makes a happy face when you meet
-Yeah, I know I’m just a clown
(well if some girl is happy to see you this can only mean she likes you but who knows what kind)
3. Your mail exchanges get quite intense
-That is what you call communication
(true if u are her friend or are easy to talk about different things, but if u are a boring guy then she might like you)
4. She calls you by a special name
-Calling me names
(that is normal)
5. She asks if there is someone you like
-Yeah, I’m just her reference material
(normally one can think that)
6. People around you point you out as a promising pair
-That is what gossip is for
(hard to believe or not persons are easily influenced bit this kind of things so there is like a 5% she could start to think about you in that way “maybe”)
7. She makes efforts to be alone with you
-Who want to be in a crowded place anyway?
(normal people like that)
8. She avoids breaking off long conversations, and talks with you as long as possible
-She is talkative person and that is all that is to it(if the girl talk a lot with anyone but if she is a quiet type and only talk to you then there might be some thing)
9. Her friends scout you out by asking what you think of her
-Again, as a reference material
(what do they care we are not in kindergander)
But isn’t most of this behavior categorical of both genders? I’ve seen just as many men pull this stuff as women, and with just as high of a percentage of it being misunderstood by the recipient (though actually, in the case of the men, it had a higher percentage of it just being trolling).