I’m sure by now you’ve seen the Bye Felipe Instagram account, where women post screenshots of interactions they have on dating sites when they don’t return a man’s affections. If you’ve somehow avoided it, I’m sorry for ruining your morning. But did you know, as a woman, you may receive the same kind of ire if you
do respond to men online and agree with whatever compliment they’ve thrown your way?
Claire Boniface experienced the same thing the women of
Bye Felipe experienced – if she didn’t acknowledge their compliments or messages, she would be criticized for not replying. So what would happen if she did acknowledge them? That’s what she set out to uncover when she started what she calls on her
Tumblr page “a social experiment.”
“I’m doing a social experiment called ‘agreeing with boys when they compliment you’.”
Can you guess where this is going? If you answered, “some men do not like it when women accept compliments,” you would be right. Gweneth Bateman got wind of the “social experiment” and decided to share the page with her 67,000+ Twitter followers. She tweets the images from her account @spiritualvodka:
social experiment: whenever a boy compliments you, agree with him. pic.twitter.com/rb8S4VQMCj
— gweneth (@spiritualvodka) January 11, 2015
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