I actually took the bait lol, all good.

“This is a problem some women have.”

“BUT WHAT ABOUT MEN?!?!?”

Yes, by not explicitly stating that some men also have this problem, I implicitly meant that this was a women-only issue. You’re one of the few who managed to see through my subtle deception, bravo.

Explicitly asking comes with the possibility of being explicitly rejected, and some women never learned to deal with romantic rejection, thus making them afraid of even the possibility of it. For most of them, this is subconcious.