Is it proper to pursue a guy?

Philippines
August 17, 2010 7:01pm CST
Do you have courage to tell a guy you like him? Is it okay to give him a hint that you love him? The elders always talk about that the generation today is far more different than their generation. It seems that the girls nowadays can express more easily and have the guts to show their feelings toward the boys. Do men still find women cheap and easy to get if they are the ones pursuing them?
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13 responses
• United States
18 Aug 10
This is not the old times where women awaited for men to take charge. There are classy ways to let a guy know how you feel. You never know his feelings may be mutual and he may just be shy and appreciate you making the first move.
@XiaoLin (289)
• Italy
21 Aug 10
I never learned the classy ways you're talking about... since when I was very young I would be quite direct and confess to the person I liked... and it usually wasn't the right move. They never liked me back. Starting from 18 years old I stopped throwing myself on the guys I liked and the situation got better I must say... :o). But it wasn't a problem about being criticized from elder people or being treates as a cheap girl. It was only that I wasn't really paying attention on the other part. It was quite clear I was confessing to someone wha wasn't in love with me. All the times. There's a japanese manga about this girl who confesses to the guy she likes and he doesn't like her at all, but after they get merried. a taiwanese drama was taken from it, it's called "It started with a kiss". Worth watching it.
• United States
21 Aug 10
I will have to a take a look and see. The classy ways I was talking about is everything bu throwing yourself at someone, there are ways to portray hints and such without literally just throwing yourself at someone which definitely can be constituted as cheap.
• Philippines
30 Aug 10
I've been pursuing guys I like ever since. Some people think it is not proper but if you're open-minded, you wouldn't mind at all. I don't mind what other people may think of me. And I don't think it's cheapness too. It's just that I do what I want with some limitations. I also don't think that women like me is easy to get. Because believe me, I'm still virgin. But lately, I have some regret in that part too because I fall hard with this guy I recently pursued with and for the first time in my life I receive some disrespectful and hurtful words from him. That woke me up. It hurts but still I am what I am. But know when to stop. I did stop pursuing him and now he is pursuing me after 3 months of not pestering him and telling him, I'm not interested anymore.
• United States
18 Aug 10
I don't think that it's wrong. I think that if a woman wants to pursue a man, that is up to her. I don't see the harm or the problem with it. Although, with the computer and things being the way they are, women and men don't really have to pursue each other very much anymore. My boyfriend and I kind of pursued each other. Online we talked to each other, and in person we went to role playing groups, clubs, Starbucks, and movies together. It just happened, there wasn't much pursuing. Also, nowadays, women kind of have to pursue men because most men are shy, especially the nice, geeky/nerdy guys.
@cher913 (25782)
• Canada
18 Aug 10
well dont pursue him too much or else he wont like you because men do not like to be chased.
@gurka84 (66)
• Argentina
18 Aug 10
It's prefect you have to peruse him!! we are quite slow sometimes... but after he realize what you feel about him.. be careful take it easy don't throw yourself to whatever he wants. good luck
@zalmazan (40)
• Philippines
19 Aug 10
If you love him, tell him. We won't really know what will happen next. Who knows, maybe he's in love with you too.
• India
18 Aug 10
I don’t think men find women cheap if women go and propose… I think it all depends on particular situations. For example, if you are in the bar or in some other area where people just mix to have fun and a woman goes up and proposes to a guy, she might be thought of as easily available. However, if it’s a case of genuine love and if the two people have known each other for quite sometime yet nobody has proposed, I don’t see why it should be wrong if it’s the girl who proposes first.
• Philippines
18 Aug 10
I do not have knowledge on this. I haven't done this kind ever in my life. However I know a friend who is now pregnant with the guy she pursued before. For sure, not all have the same story, some are successful because they get the same treatment, if the guy loves them too, however, what if not. If you ask me, when it comes to love, people get blinded and they do not care even if they are a girl or woman that pursue the guy. They are confident that they will get the guy, however some guy do not accept this scenario, while some take advantage of the weakness of the girl which is bad. I still have the conservative side that I do not like to pursue a guy,or maybe someday, when I am badly inlove, i will try once but when I am refused or rejected once for sure I will never do that again.
@bingskee (5234)
• Philippines
18 Aug 10
personally, i would not pursue a guy. but i think there is nothing wrong telling a guy you love or like him provided the girl is ready to whatever consequences the action may entail.
• Philippines
18 Aug 10
Before when I was young, it's really hard to tell a guy because of the oldies as you said they keep on talking that it's not right for a girl, that the guy will just take advantage of it and will just play with your feelings. That's why I keep it to myself, afraid that I will be a victim of this. But when I'm much older like 18, I can freely express my feelings to a guy. Coz I can protect myself and I know what a guy is really up to.
@genevy04 (793)
• Philippines
18 Aug 10
Hi there kristeena, In my own personal experience, I haven't tried telling a guy that I actually like him. I'm sort of the hard to get type. Well maybe I'm from a different generation than right now. My thinking was more on, 'hey I won't tell him I like him unless he tells me he likes me' I guess I was afraid of being dumped. I'm the type of person who feels really bad because of rejection. You see, I'm kinda a negative thinker. Though when I turned 20's, I learned to tell someone that he was my crush. Though I took it in a joke. Well I guess he got my point. But before that I felt he had a crush on me too. Because he shows me that he is interested. You may think I am sort of a person who is hard to figure out. If you do so my friend, then I think you are right.. Hehehe.. I too, finds it hard to figur out my own self..
@fannitia (2167)
• Bulgaria
18 Aug 10
The young people sre always different than the generation of their parents. But can say that when I was young many girls were like those audacious young ladies of today. I was not so open and I sorry for that. If a guy would find a girl "cheap" because she made the first step, this is his problem. And you, if you like somebody, don't be afraid to try.
@lfloresca (116)
• Philippines
18 Aug 10
I think it is much better if the girl shows some hint if she likes a guy, like this situation both of them like each other but because they don't know if what each others feel they are ashamed to make some move because they think they don't have a chance.