Originally Posted by
steveholt
I don't think it's quite complicated. People who are young and attractive (often women, but men as well) get hit on constantly. They get hit on in the tube, at work, at the gym, and in just about every single possible social situation that isn't directly geared towards finding a romantic partner. Just about every account from these people (of which I am definitively not one) is that this behavior is exhausting and uncomfortable, and that they would much prefer simply to exist and be humans in public spaces as opposed to a possible conquest.
The vast majority of people I see in BA lounges (or any other lounge, truthfully) are elderly men who aren't being hit on constantly. I suspect they would appreciate the attention.
Ah ok. So younger women must not be chatted to by any men or just older men? Or could an older man chat to a younger woman if there is no intent for it to lead anywhere in a romantic sense.
Interesting you keep using the phrase “hit on” isn’t it? Is that how you view chatting to someone to get to know them and in order to see where it goes?
Your descriptions seem to paint a very caricaturish view of lounges as if they are full of lecherous older men waiting to “hit on” any younger female who appears? I can’t say I have ever seen that in a lounge, but perhaps I am missing it.