classicalmonoblogue:

prokopetz:

I hate to be the one to break this to you, dude, but as a general rule, women don’t pretend to virulently hate men they’re secretly in love with as some sort of elaborate courtship ritual. That’s a trope we made up to justify why the male protagonist always gets the girl in the end even when it’s starkly at odds with prior characterisation. In real life, if she acts like she thinks you’re a creep, it’s because she thinks you’re a creep!

Specifically, it’s a trope invented so that male authors (and readers) can tell themselves that the women who tell them to fuck off secretly want to fuck them, so it’s romantic and totally not creepy to continue harassing them.