November 2008
15 posts
27. If I Laugh At All His Gay Jokes?
Hey, more reader mail! If you have a question you’d like us to answer, put it in an email, lick it, and address it to amiflirting@gmail.com.
Before we answer this question, we should be clear that we’re not talking about ignorant gay-bashing “humor” here. We’re talking about charming gay boys making charming jokes about being gay, and the other boys who love them.
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26. If after offering to fix your busted Wordpress...
A wise lady explaining the vagaries of internet courtship supports the practice of another experienced lad who’s been refining the provision of “the internet boyfriend experience” — it’s the small favors, elevated to improbably perfect common bonds, that make for flirting.
So of course she could have looked up the answer you gave her in the Wordpess Codex herself....
25. If I Write Terrible Poetry?
You are probably really rotten at writing poems. If children are being left behind in general education subjects, they’re being knocked out with sacks of doorknobs and left in junkyard tire-piles when it comes to poetry. But somewhere, deep down, the desire to use poetry for its intended purpose still stirs in even the most talentless amongst us. Its intended purpose is flirting.
Because we...
Watch(After No. 24, If I Make You A Mix Tape)
24. If I Make You A Mix Tape?
“Um, sorry it’s been so long. I got really really really buried and life is crazy right now. Crazy like, when did all my friends lose their jobs? That’s when you’re all supposed to be there for each other, right?”
And we all stay up all night chatting, and refreshing and refreshing and refreshing and you know how your eyes just won’t stop until your body...
22. If I Feed Him With My College Meal Plan?
Today we return to the halcyon days of all-we-could-eat pasta covered in a layer of french fries, and the girls who swiped their university meal cards to deliver it to us. If you go to a school where the cafeteria is a main social hub, the exchange of meal cards can be confusing or misleading. In the real world, when someone buys you a meal, it’s a date (unless there’s some other...
Even if Sarah Palin is Smiling
Apropos of item no. 18:
The three talked late into the night. Schmidt and Salter probed and pressed and looked for gaps between her views and McCain’s. Palin shrugged off substantive differences. “What’s the big darn deal?” she asked, smiling and, in her frontier-girl way, half defying, half flirting with her interrogators. - Newsweek
No, America. Sarah Palin, for all...
An Am I Flirting? Flirt
Seriously, all 120-something of you? Dead cute. How do we start pairing you off? By complementary patterns of plaid & stripes, or alphabetically according to username, or some other system yet to be be deployed by Young Master Karp?
Oh! The Tumblr-dating-dashboard. You heard it here first.
An Am I Flirting? Field Report
Am I Flirting? is beginning to receive reports of people mentioning our blog while flirting. If you’ve done this, we’d like to hear your stories, and how your flirtation turned out. As always, we assume none of the risk of mentioning this blog in the same sentence as anything romantic. That’s on you, you crazy person.
Here is a message from a gentleman — presumably a...
21. To Fend Off My Creditors?
If you’re not, you should be. Even with a black superhero president-elect, we’re in the midst of a global economic crisis. But you have to remember that subtle hints about the possibility of hot, hot sex are virtually recession-proof.
So, the next time that girl from the bank calls to ask in a sensuous voice whether you ever plan on paying your credit card ever again, ever, you might...
20. If I Voted?
Only if you took your panties off in the voting booth, handed them to the polling clerk with your ballot, and said:
“This is what democracy looks like.”
Also: only if you voted for That One. Because nothing says I wanna fuck you like I wanna fuck you with your reproductive and sexual rights intact. Gobama!
19. If I Train Him To Email Me on Schedule?
“am i flirting if… in the course of four months i have successfully trained him to exchange emails every two days when he said he hated email and only wanted to correspond by post? i mean i think it’s clear but he insists it’s platonic. then i feel bad for maybe flirting. maybe i am wondering if he’s flirting.”
Am I Flirting took this mailbag question to the...
18. If She Smiles and Really Listens When I Talk...
For some reason, even the most simple gesture from a girl — a smile, making eye contact, nodding — can seem like flirting. Is it our Attention Starved Culture? Is it boys growing up without getting Love? Is it just that girls are too used to keeping cool distance in order to avoid gape-mouthed leers and catcalls?
And it’s not just with girls. A guy I know complains that other...
17. If I Put on Lip Gloss Every Time I'm Around...
This is another question pulled from our reader mail. If you’d like to see your question answered on Am I Flirting?, please send it to amiflirting@gmail.com.
Ah, the age-old issue of lip gloss, debated by scholars since time immemorial! Or, at the very least, debated since Lil Mama’s 2007 one-hit-wonder “Lip Gloss.” If your lip gloss is constantly poppin’, are you...