Last night a total stranger complimented me on my mohawk (which people tell me makes me look like a rooster) and my beard (which is very large and untrimmed). Normally I assume that when people compliment me on such, they are just being nice, because they usually come from people I know and I am a mostly unattractive person (as said mohawk and beard just make me look like a unkempt male chicken-person).
But this time it came from a drunk woman who had never met me before, so I awkwardly thanked her for the compliment and walked out of the bar with the friends I’d walked to the bar to buy a six-pack with and went home, grinning dumbly nonetheless.
Too bad patriarchal norms dictate that the ‘man’ always had to ‘make the first move,’ because I’m socially stunted and therefore do not feel comfortable talking to people at all and if some girl came up to me and started to make the moves on me and I would probably interpret that as an unwanted invasion of personal space and/or it would simply be VERY FUCKING CONFUSING.