Sure, but conversation goes best somewhere people aren't trying to get to the shops or the office.
I suspect fear of rejection more of a deterrent. There's no taboo against making friendly conversation as far as I know.
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A park, queue or bus stop, perhaps, but someone walking down the street? Perhaps I've spent too long in Poland.
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I'd just like us to live in a world where a decent man wasn't afraid to approach a attractive women in the street & be friendly.
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Where the taboo was not 'man talking to woman' but 'man being boorish to woman' or 'man not going away when clear she doesn't want to talk.'
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I think if anyone's going somewhere it's boorish to stop them. But perhaps I'm biased by not wanting even well-intentioned people to...
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Yes, absolutely. This is obstructive whoever does it. A friendly smile and 'good morning.' will do. See if she stops to chat.
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Ah! Well I don't disagree with you there. Nothing wrong with a hello. I was imagining something more presumptuous.
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I tend to think most people are nice. I imagine friendly rather than predatory approaches tho both motivated by attraction.
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I'm worried by tendency to see men as threatening by default when wanting to start conversation w pretty woman most natural thing in world.
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