Wednesday, February 2, 2011

You Are Coming Off Creepy If...

Here is a helpful list of things that guys do that make girls think you're a creeper. Don't do these things unless you want to be seen as a creeper. If you do not see how this things could be construed as creepy, get a therapist and ask him/her about it, you probably need more help than I can offer in this list. (Feel free to add to the list in comments, ladies)

  • Walking up to a girl, introducing yourself, immediately asking if she has a boyfriend and/or trying to touch/hug her
  • Making sexual jokes as an opening line or the first time a girl agrees to go out with you
  • Becoming devoted before there has been any significant dating--this is not a point you should reach for at minimum a month, but usually more like six or eight months. Even if you're thinking it, pushing a relationship to "I love you, I would never leave you" usually comes off as creepy
  • Finding out where a girl lives, works, hangs out and/or likes to shop without being told this information. We do not like surprises that prove to us that you're stalking us. If you're not invited, don't show up. 
  • Looking at anything in our purse...big thing, if you take a girl's phone out to find her number or look at her license for her address, you are not only stalking but violating the law. If you want a number, ask for it. If she refuses, try starting with a friendly friend request on facebook.
  • Creepy on facebook: do not reply, like, and/or comment on every status update, shared info, etc if it is not intended for you. Although a girl may have close friends that do that, you need to know her better before being so button-happy on her facebook page. You will be seen as creepy, limited, and then deleted.
  • If you give compliments and she's not saying thank you, she's not flattered. Your compliments are probably either creeping her out or you're being too invasive. Start with a compliment about the way she looks and limit yourself. She may have beautiful eyes, hair, body, clothes, accessories, everything, but if you go for too much too fast, you seem obsessive and creepy
  • If she walks away from you and is talking to someone else, do not follow her unless you've been invited
  • Do not bring her a drink from the bar without her being present at the bar or telling you what she wants, she will think you've drugged the drink if you randomly walk up and hand her a drink, even if you know it's what she has been drinking all night
  • Do not dance with a girl by grinding on her uninvited. Party boy may be a good joke, but it makes you creepy.
  • Never talk about imagining her naked body or masturbating around a girl you like. It's not flattering. It's creepy.
  • Try to find out what she's into and then model your humor around that. If you make a bunch of random jokes she doesn't get, she'll get annoyed and eventually creeped out. If she has a common geek type and you make jokes she gets, you're much more likely to avoid the creepy category.
  • Do not ask her to give you a ride home the first time you meet her.
  • Do not get completely trashed the first time you meet her.
  • Do not mention girlfriends and all of the problems you've had before--you sound like a hopeless wreck and before long, you're a creeper.
  • Never corner a girl.
  • Don't show her your knives or firearms the first time you meet her.
  • Avoid talking about your emotional history and any mental issues you have ever had when you first meet a girl, even after that, unless you're going to be together a long time, you can set yourself up to lose her nearly immediately. Bit by bit. An overload of information will scare her away.
  • Try to avoid using words other than her name. Introduce yourself and get her name before starting with hun, baby, darlin, sexy, hottie, etc. It's flattering sometimes, but it usually sounds creepy. 
This list is getting long, but I think you get my general drift. Some things may seem sweet or appropriate in a guys head, but I really wish they had a "Creeper Check" button in the brain. I think the creeper factor may be why some nice guys finish last.

1 comment:

  1. Some of these traits go beyond "creepy", they appear to be perverted and in other cases, "loser". Granted, I don't always understand the dating code for your generation but honestly, if this is what you girls have to deal with, I think I would be looking in new places for someone worthy of you. This just grossed me out...think I'll take a shower to get the "creep" off of me.

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