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what do you think about girls making the first move ?


I'm mostly refering to a girl making a move WHEN she doesn't even know for sure about what that guy thinks about her.

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I really think the guy should make the first move, not the girl. In this movie, Anna was the one who asked Jacob out and even suggested they get married. Maybe I'm "old fashioned", but I believe it's better that a guy "chases" the girl and be the pursuer than the pursued.

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It doesn't matter who makes the first move. Yeah personally I would never chase a man and have never made a first move, but there's nothing wrong with a girl/woman to do so. If you feel okay doing that then it's ok.

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honestly i agree.
when people say there is "nothing wrong" with a girl making the first move, ok it may be not wrong, but it's just not romantic at all. Something about it that just takes away the magic.
A guy persuing a girl is the "classical way" in my opinion. Which makes it romantic.

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Nervous and shy guys really appreciate when a girl (that they're into) makes the first move. I've seen adorable scenarios where the girl makes an adorable first move. It can be just as cute and romantic as when the guy does it, especially if they're both sort of shy about things.


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I agree. I was extremely shy when I was in high school, and I found out 40 years later that some of the girls I was too shy to ask out would have gone out with me. The same is true with showing affection. I would have appreciated girls' making the first move -- but I recommend not doing anything suddenly and unexpectedly, especially if he has ADHD. Sudden actions can throw him temporarily off balance, so to speak, and he may freeze.

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This is what I don't want to happen to me ...

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... exactly.

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a girl making the first move [...] it's just not romantic at all.
Something about it that just takes away the magic.

Why exactly is that not romantic at all?
What exactly "takes away the magic"?

A guy persuing a girl is the "classical way" in my opinion.
Which makes it romantic.

It's an opinion based on lack of experience and, frankly, unworldliness.
While it's certainly true that something "classical" can be very romantic,
it's at least as true that something unconventional can be even more romantic.

I've had, among others, girls making the first move on me more than once ...
... but once it was the most romantic moment I experienced in my whole life.
Because I wasn't allowed to approach for some stupid conventional reasons.

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I really think the guy should make the first move, not the girl. [...]
I believe it's better that a guy "chases" the girl and be the pursuer than the pursued.

This is hardcore sexist, and also doesn't make sense at all.

1. brave guy allowed to pursue shy girl:
Either they find out they like each other and will get happy,
or at least he knows he didn't miss a chance when they don't.
Fine either way.

2. brave girl not allowed to pursue shy guy:
Neither will they ever find out if they liked each other,
nor will she ever know if she missed the chance of her life.
Bummer!

The way of thinking quoted above is one of the reasons why this world is a way more miserable place than actually needs to be.

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I don't think that it is that wrong. I mean, look at this beautiful movie that came of it:)

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I think it's cute like in this case where it's nothing promiscuous

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Guys say they like it, and maybe they think they do. But I think, deep down on some sub-conscious level, it makes them uncomfortable. I recently had a long talk with a bunch of female friends about this (I myself also being female) and all off us, a diverse group of ladies, had very similar experiences where 9 times out of 10 when we had asked the guy out or made the first move, even if the date was fantastic and we had tons of stuff in common with the guy and the coversation was good and the attraction was there, things often didn't progress very far if at all. Guys don't generally seem flattered when a girl asks them out, more taken aback I would say. And they say yes and go on the date and as much as they may otherwise like the girl I think they feel (again on some sub-conscious level) like they've been emasculated in a way. Not all guys are like this, but enough of them are that I feel comfortable in my assessment that, while I think there's nothing wrong with a girl making the first move, guys generally prefer to do the chasing at the end of the day and they don't seem to appreciate the tables being turned.

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I think shy guys like me appreciate it, whereas confident, extroverted ones do not like it.

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Holy hell, are you writing this from 1952? Did you find a time machine?!

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For one reason or another, asking someone out is seen as a male duty. When the female is doing the asking she might be seen as aggressive or someone that doesn't have many options (it is wrongly assumed that women have tons of men asking them out). However, when the girl's done the asking doesn't necessarily mean that any possibility of a relationship is doomed. It also highly depends on the context and the guy's interest.

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