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[–] krakenfury@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 6 hours ago

One time a girl in a bar just walked up to me and asked if I wanted to make out. Of course, it happened after I was well into a relationship with the person who is now my wife, so I had to turn her down, but it felt amazing.

[–] 2ugly2live@lemmy.world 5 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I'm an ugly woman and I remember getting a compliment from someone at dunkin. It was another woman, but she said I looked pretty. I think to this day she's the only person who has complimented me that wasn't a friend or something. 😅

I've had plenty of men yell out "huge bitch" and what have you though. 🤷🏿‍♀️

[–] Classy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I don't imagine they were quoting Deuce Bigalow?

[–] 2ugly2live@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

Some of them definitely were. They said it with the inflection and everything. 😂

[–] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

in the psych ward because verbal abuse from my mom bc I'm trans (among other reasons),

"woah how that XXX left, there's only girls here!"

It's the sweetest thing anybody other than my sister has told me

[–] chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 9 points 21 hours ago

"If I wasn't a lesbian, I'd 100% date you"

Normally, I'd write this off as someone "letting me down easy", but this was my best friend in High school that I knew for years, so I know the sentiment was genuine.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago

"You smell so nice" - a gay female co-worker. I was wearing a new cologne that I purchased for myself. It was very expensive so I'm glad I chose well

[–] Nangijala 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I give my man compliments all the time. He calls me silly and pretends he doesn't care, but I think it is working. Have been running a semi-non stop compliment campaign since Covid where I tell him how beautiful his hair is in the hopes he will cut it less. It's been a good while since he last came home looking like a sheep after shearing. Summer is approaching, though, so I'm bracing myself for him getting the idea to visit the barber and have him mutilate those beautiful locks of his. It should be crime, honestly.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's such a cruel thing that compliments from partners don't feel the same as compliments from strangers. My wife has been telling me parts of my body are attractive for agres, but I didn't really internalize it until I heard it from others as well.

[–] Nangijala 5 points 21 hours ago

It's the same phenomena as when your parents try to give you good advice but you will only listen to it if it comes from the mouths of "outsiders".

Example: my boyfriend tried to get me into Tool for ages and I was very indifferent to it. Then my closest colleague starts playing Tool at work and I'm like "omg this music is awesome" and I go home and tell my bf about this amazing new band I have gotten into and he just gets so offended like "I literally tried to get you into it for years wtf". We laugh about it sometimes.

[–] dumbass@leminal.space 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You deserve a blowjob.

That's kept me floating for years.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I hope you receive it one day 🙏

[–] dumbass@leminal.space 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's the thought that counts.

[–] RichardDegenne@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

It's the throat that counts

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I was told blue looks good on me by a girl.

10 years later, most of my shirts are blue.

[–] peetabix@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

I hope she wasn't colour blind 😬

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[–] Jyek@sh.itjust.works 57 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

Girls have a super power they can use to live rent free in any guy's head pretty much eternally. All they need to do is catch them off guard with a compliment.

A guy will keep a shirt until it literally disintegrates if one time a girl said "that color looks good on you." Pretty much every guy that wears a particular cologne, wears that cologne because at some point a girl said he smelled nice. It's not even a horny brain thing I don't think. It's just that guys get so few compliments on their appearance that every single one is massively precious to them.

[–] aeshna_cyanea@lemm.ee 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)

girls would do this more often but there's always the (justified tbh) fear that the guy will take it the wrong way and get weird about it :(

[–] QuantumSparkles@sh.itjust.works 4 points 20 hours ago

It goes both ways I think too. Guys wouldn’t obsess over the idea that a single compliment might be flirting if they were more used to compliments in general from both sexes. On the other hand some guys are so afraid of misreading a compliment or normal friendliness that they can’t tell when someone actually is flirting. I sort of think there need to be more voices out there meant to speak directly to men and masc people about social literacy that aren’t trying to turn them into hateful, violent, incel republicans.

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's absolutely justified fear. For every one guy who will just take it as a sweet compliment, there are ten guys who will think "she wants the D!"

[–] Malfeasant@lemm.ee 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Honestly I don't think the ratio is that bad... But it doesn't have to be, when just one creep can ruin your life...

[–] KingJalopy@lemm.ee 1 points 12 hours ago

You fuck one goat...

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[–] jaschen@lemm.ee 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Everytime the cashier flips the tablet over before a tip, they say a compliment. I always tip more than I usually do.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

They got you good

[–] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 35 points 1 day ago

Anon's tombstone:

"She really liked my voice."

[–] sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 134 points 2 days ago (23 children)

It's such a dichotomy. Women get catcalled every day and feel uncomfortable and harassed. Understandable. The average man gets catcalled a handful of times in his life and cherishes those moments almost as much as their children's births.

[–] LostXOR@fedia.io 86 points 2 days ago (7 children)

Doesn't even have to be catcalling; even a normal compliment is something we remember for a long time. I don't think I've been catcalled at all, though I'm not very attractive so I wouldn't expect to be.

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[–] gmtom@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I don't remember basically anyone from my secondary schoold other than my 4 close freinds and this one girl that randomly asked me for a hug one day, said I give really good hugs, then basically never spoke to me again.

[–] vonbaronhans@midwest.social 1 points 16 hours ago

I get compliments on my hugs on the reg. Well, less regularly as I get older and meet new people less often, but still. Being a good hugger is somehow a weirdly rare skill?

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[–] Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago (5 children)

One time a buddy and I were out drinking and on our way out he ran into a childhood friend. So while they were catching up I was just leaning against a table and listening to their conversation and people watching.

A pretty attractive woman came up to me, looked me dead in the eyes, and said "you'd be more attractive if you had some self-confidence", and then walked out of the bar.

I think about that every day. Because I have never in my life been told I need "more confidence" (actually, it's usually the opposite haha).

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[–] BillibusMaximus@sh.itjust.works 48 points 2 days ago (1 children)

In 1998, the young lady working the cash register at the taco bell near where I worked told me I have really pretty eyes. So I have that going for me, which is nice.

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[–] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I did a lot of clubbing in the '90s. Once, a beautiful girl came up to me and said: "You're gorgeous" and then ran off. Thing is, though, I was in my early 30s at the time and she looked about 16. So, obviously, I didn't pursue her. But that's stuck with me for over 20 years. I can still hear it in my head.

[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I've received a lot of compliments on my voice in life, Nicknames for it throughout school; i didn't have a period of voice cracking, literally woke up one day and my voice was different (scared the shit out of my parents that morning).

I hate my voice 🙃

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[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 51 points 2 days ago (10 children)

I (afab) intentionally give my male friends and coworkers lots of non sexual compliments, and it’s been a mixed bag for people I don’t know well. I genuinely love men’s business wear, so I frequently go for a comment about what they’re wearing (think “I like your shirt” or “that’s a cool pattern,” not “that shirt makes your eyes pop” or “you look sexy in that shirt”), and about a third of the time, they still seem to think I’m coming on to them. Since I got married and wear my wedding ring, that’s down to about a quarter.

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