David Njoku@davidnjoku@mastodon.world
I'm in Prague with my ex and the kids. We're walking down a street and we approach a couple standing together. As we near them, my ex smiles at the woman and she smiles back.
"You look nice," my ex says.
"So do you!"
We continue on our way.
What's the compliment that one man can innocently give to another man? I can't think of any.
Charlotte Walker@purplepadma@beige.party
@davidnjoku@mastodon.world I worked with a user of a service for ex-offenders who often used to give other men compliments on their clothes or hair. Given there was a high level of testosterone among the user group you might have thought hackles would rise, but he seemed so guileless that he was mostly met with bafflement.
I do pay other women compliments but I sometimes wonder how they’ll land. When I was abroad earlier this year, an American woman shouted, “Cute purse!” at me when I was carrying my favourite holiday handbag and I was so pleased.
