I'm thinking about goodlookingloser's comments on social circle game, and how naturals rely on women in their circle telling them which girls think they are "hot" and which girls within their shared circle are single and available.
If women are less socially skilled and only able to identify flirtation behavior half as well as men are, it seems you're better listening to other men in your social circle instead. Or just yourself.
And as much as we like to assign maleficent motives for cock-blocking behavior by some women when out together in groups, it's also quite possible that cock blockers are genuinely unable to see the flirtation interaction going on. Perhaps the cock blocker role just falls to the lowest socially calibrated person in the group, and they really are so clueless they think there's no interaction going on.
If women are less socially skilled and only able to identify flirtation behavior half as well as men are, it seems you're better listening to other men in your social circle instead. Or just yourself.
And as much as we like to assign maleficent motives for cock-blocking behavior by some women when out together in groups, it's also quite possible that cock blockers are genuinely unable to see the flirtation interaction going on. Perhaps the cock blocker role just falls to the lowest socially calibrated person in the group, and they really are so clueless they think there's no interaction going on.
"Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because they're so frightfully clever. I'm awfully glad I'm a Beta, because I don't work so hard. And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas. Gammas are stupid. They all wear green, and Delta children wear khaki. Oh no, I don't want to play with Delta children. And Epsilons are still worse. They're too stupid to be able to read or write. Besides they wear black, which is such a beastly color. I'm so glad I'm a Beta."
--Aldous Huxley, Brave New World