A girl approaching a guy would likely immediately be construed by the guy as a romantic or sexual advance. Plus, women have been made to feel unsafe in our society.
A complicating factor, though, is a good percentage of the time women have approached me, I have found out later that they are interested but I had not realized that they were interested, or I assumed that they wanted to be friends or were just being friendly or just happened to be in the same places I was, but they ended up liking me, or like I would be in the friend zone as a backup or something. Or they just didn’t mind being around me because I am not bad looking and am passive. Or I just have more easily become friends with women than with men.
Whenever I think I am making a straight male friend, they usually ended up being closeted gay guy and are interested in me
I’ll try to explain: I met these two girls through talking about their dog at a coffee place in college, the three of us visited where I grew up and where the one girl grew up, and then third girl was planning to visit where she grew up in Hawaii and I went with them to Hawaii, also making friends with a sister of the girl from Hawaii. Later I met this girl who who went to bars at large college campus where I lived since she went to a smaller college campus, she and her friends would visit on weekends and stay with me so they could visit large college campus night life scene. I also met other girl in my building who was a dancer who had been in local commercial and I was interested in old musicals and she taught me dance moves. I went with her to things and drove her to class and so on sometimes.
Then I thought I was making a straight male friend, since he approached me a lot and I had sexual assault issues before this which women didn’t seem to understand why they affected me so much and he had childhood molestation issues, so I thought I made a straight male friend with similar issues to those I had experienced who would understand my predicament, but it slowly developed that he was in love with me and did various things to get rid of these women and became very sexually aggressive including getting drunk and me needing to fight him off. Girls I liked were banned for being bad influences or whatever and I lost all these female friends due to his insistence that our phone number be his old phone number and banning and such
I guess that my adult realities are just opposite everything that is supposed to happen
For awhile I had this college football roommate in the dorms, who was also rather attractive, who had women calling him constantly. He literally told me to “erase all messages from women on the answering machine, but don’t erase messages from men.” I never figured out what was going on.
I also, at one point, lived next door to someone who ultimately was a Heisman trophy winner, and there was a constant stream of different women there.
I just do not doubt a single thing that women say, especially here, but these things just have nothing in common with what I have seen or experienced.