Women: Do you get offended by compliments?

[Bobby1]

Re: Women: Do you get offended by compliments?

@shaasavera

I can understand colleagues who may be comfortable with it but not strangers. I know SID said colleagues but from your comment I assumed strangers might do that as well. Similar situation in Australia. We have an aging population but last few yrs there has been a baby boom. I’ve seen many children and babies around. It could be due to government incentives. I’ve seen strangers patting dogs here as well

That is my strong belief that they should incentivise here also but the fear is that population on welfare will pop out scores of babies. Many girls on social assistance have many babies from many men to collect a bigger chegue.

[Illuminate]

Re: Women: Do you get offended by compliments?

I actually like compliments if they are genuine and preferably from someone I know. I always get compliments for my eyes/eyelashes. Just yesterday a co worker was like " Are your eyelashes real??, they’re really pretty". “Probably not the first time you’ve gotten that have, you?” And I said no because it happens often, so as much as I appreciated it, it was like… okay, another one. I think if you can find ways to compliment someone’s style or something unique about them they’ll remember you more and will know you pay attention to the finer details of who they are and their personality.

A coworker of mine is having a baby (well his wife is) and people can’t stop asking him “when he’s giving birth?”, “how he’s feeling”, we threw him a big party and gave gifts, it was a really big deal. Another co worker went on paternity leave for 4 months to help his wife with the baby. I think in N. America it is a big deal and people spend more time preparing for it, moms read parenting books and take classes for newborns, etc. I haven’t lived in Pak much so I can’t say what the culture is like, regarding this.

Also, I’ve seen people asking to touch the bump and moms giving a dirty look. I wouldn’t want someone’s bad vibes/energy touching my baby either!

[third_string]

Re: Women: Do you get offended by compliments?

@Illuminate

I actually like compliments if they are genuine and preferably from someone I know. I always get compliments for my eyes/eyelashes. Just yesterday a co worker was like " Are your eyelashes real??, they’re really pretty". “Probably not the first time you’ve gotten that have, you?” And I said no because it happens often, so as much as I appreciated it, it was like… okay, another one. I think if you can find ways to compliment someone’s style or something unique about them they’ll remember you more and will know you pay attention to the finer details of who they are and their personality.

A coworker of mine is having a baby (well his wife is) and people can’t stop asking him “when he’s giving birth?”, “how he’s feeling”, we threw him a big party and gave gifts, it was a really big deal. Another co worker went on paternity leave for 4 months to help his wife with the baby. I think in N. America is it a big deal and people spend more time preparing for it, moms read parenting books and take classes for newborns, etc. I haven’t lived in Pak much so I can’t say what the culture is like, regarding this.

Also, I’ve seen people asking to touch the bump and moms giving a dirty look. I wouldn’t want someone’s bad vibes/energy touching my baby either!

Would you say complimenting a girls eyes is a good a way to get her interested, especially if she has brown eyes? cause usually it’s light eyes that getcomplimented.

[Illuminate]

Re: Women: Do you get offended by compliments?

lol, any compliment is always a good start to get someone interested/intrigued. But if the person is smart they’ll find something different to compliment. If it’s something the girl often gets complimented on she won’t think much of it.

[SaeedinPakistan]

Re: Women: Do you get offended by compliments?

It all all depends on how she feels about you. The compliments will be appreciated if she likes you or has a favorable opinion of you. The compliment will be like adding fuel to fire if she thinks you’re a creep (you’ll graduate from creep to super creep).