That isn’t “another theory”, because what ChristianKI was saying wasn’t a theory about what determines whether people freak out when approached (but yours is), and it was a theory about how to adjust your expectations concerning freakouts (but yours isn’t).
How frequently you make romantic/sexual overtures to women (and how “intense” they are) is not a thing that others can readily observe unless they’re with you all the time, and making such overtures and getting turned down flat because you creep the women out is … not obviously higher-status-looking than leaving them alone.
Even if it turns out that making such overtures, freaking their recipient out, and getting turned down flat is a small overall status gain for you, it still doesn’t follow that you should do it—unless you simply don’t care about the women involved except as pawns in your status game. I would guess that being freaked out is an unpleasant experience for most women, and that consequently not freaking women out is a goal for most not-perfectly-selfish men. (It won’t and shouldn’t be the only goal, of course.)
How frequently you make romantic/sexual overtures to women (and how “intense” they are) is not a thing that others can readily observe unless they’re with you all the time
How intense a romantic overtone is can be readily observed while it is being made.
Yes, but unless your associates are following you around all the time and looking over your shoulder whenever you talk to a woman, none of them is going to see enough examples to get much idea of exactly what you’re doing.
That isn’t “another theory”, because what ChristianKI was saying wasn’t a theory about what determines whether people freak out when approached (but yours is), and it was a theory about how to adjust your expectations concerning freakouts (but yours isn’t).
How frequently you make romantic/sexual overtures to women (and how “intense” they are) is not a thing that others can readily observe unless they’re with you all the time, and making such overtures and getting turned down flat because you creep the women out is … not obviously higher-status-looking than leaving them alone.
Even if it turns out that making such overtures, freaking their recipient out, and getting turned down flat is a small overall status gain for you, it still doesn’t follow that you should do it—unless you simply don’t care about the women involved except as pawns in your status game. I would guess that being freaked out is an unpleasant experience for most women, and that consequently not freaking women out is a goal for most not-perfectly-selfish men. (It won’t and shouldn’t be the only goal, of course.)
How intense a romantic overtone is can be readily observed while it is being made.
Yes, but unless your associates are following you around all the time and looking over your shoulder whenever you talk to a woman, none of them is going to see enough examples to get much idea of exactly what you’re doing.