Spoken like an economist. "Women are people." If people were all the same, there would be one song on Spotify, one movie on Netflix - the one *everyone* likes.

Framing an approach as "creepy" accomplishes a couple things: 1) it reframes the situation from boast to mild victimization, which elicits empathy rather than ire from peers; 2) it serves as a safe way to flex, or virtue signal that she is desired, and hence has status.

Finally, "Really this isn't complicated..." Did you do a hand flourish as you wrote this? Did the dopamine hit work for you? Pardon the rest of us for being so dumb.