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.
David Njoku@davidnjoku@mastodon.world
@purplepadma@beige.party I think people always react to compliments positively - as long as they don't think you're taking the mick or being creepy. Unfortunately the risk of seeming to take the mick is quite high with men, and the chance of sounding creepy is high when a man compliments a random woman.
