A few years ago, I made an implication to a guy that I liked him and he responded with a story that concluded with "guys play dumb." In other words, he already knew I liked him, but kept playing along with my naive answers to his seemingly innocent questions.
Lessons to learn from the above short story:
1. Though girls wait for guys to make the move, it doesn't mean girls are absolutely passive. If she likes him, she'll show some sort of interest or affection (unless circumstances don't allow it). However, beware of deviants (aka "hoes") who friend-zone but lead them on anyway.
2. If he responds with something like, say, "Elizabeth, I'm not stupid. Guys play dumb all the time," then it means you should, if possible, halt your affections for him. Guys talk about girls leading them on all the time, and it's easier for guys to fall into that trap because of the whole friend-ladder crap girls unconsciously have, but guess freaking what? The process of "leading on" happens to girls too and it happened to me. How embarrassing is that? "Guys play dumb all the time." What a douche bag.
3. If guys play dumb all the time (speaking in generalizations), no wonder girls get hurt all the time. No wonder they keep talking about boy problems.
Of course, playing dumb doesn't just come from pseudo-romantic interests. It can come from anger between friendships or feeling some type of remorse for saying something unintentional. But the interesting thing is that it is always meant to play with another person's emotions.
It requires clever thinking.
So, you can conclude that all guys who play dumb must be geniuses. Beware.
HAHAH eliza "aka hoes"
ReplyDeletei love your satire
Sometimes people play dumb so they don't have to reject them straight out. You play dumb in hope they get the gist your not interested and give up.
ReplyDeleteAnd I never knew guys played dumb!
very true. guys lead girls on a lot just as often as girls do it. thankfully, you're a smart cookie and you've realized that and you're sharing your knowledge for those other poor fooled girls out there :D
ReplyDeletelol i dont play dumb; i'm completely oblivious.
ReplyDeleteoh the Friend-Zone; i know thee so well
so what is a good way to deal with a crush
ReplyDelete1. Play dumb (obviously not)
2. Cut all connection with and ignore
3. Tell the person that you know they like you and that you are not interested (but you can be reading the signs wrong and that person may not like you, which puts you in a very awkward situation)
4. Go out with them even though you are not interested and see where it goes.
james-
ReplyDeleteas horrible as playing dumb is, it's supposedly the "nicest" approach. and as horrible as #2 is, that's what i do to others.
but, there are two things that should happen for both parties:
a) person who does the liking (the liker) should maybe tell that person that they like them and
b) the person who is being liked (the likee) should respond with how they feel about the liker.
it's inevitably awkward, so unless i absolutely know that person returns my feelings, i'm never, ever going to say anything.
very bad experience :'(