# What do you make of this bizarre comment/compliment?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-make-of-this-bizarre-comment-compliment/760392>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 20, 2016, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-make-of-this-bizarre-comment-compliment/760392 "2016-07-20T04:02:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2016, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-make-of-this-bizarre-comment-compliment/760392/21 "2016-07-21T20:57:26Z")

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I’d say with a catch in my throat, “You think I’m a man?”

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**Author:** ![Dr.Crap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.crap/32/3131_2.png) [@Dr.Crap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Crap)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2016, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-make-of-this-bizarre-comment-compliment/760392/22 "2016-07-21T22:16:14Z")

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I would think he or she was attempting to groom me.

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**Author:** ![Isosleepy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/isosleepy/32/479_2.png) [@Isosleepy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isosleepy)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2016, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-make-of-this-bizarre-comment-compliment/760392/23 "2016-07-22T03:20:17Z")

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This in fact happened to me in a way - class picture at age 14-15: parent of one of my classmates remarked to this classmate that I was such a pretty girl, a comment which I believe happened, also a (much) older brother of another classmate supposedly said similar, a comment I don’t necessarily believe occurred.

I was somewhere between bemused and befuddled: I could, in a way, see them taking me for a girl in that picture (fairly long hair, no facial hair, chin not as noticeable in this shot), but to me it wasn’t remotely a pretty one.

In hindsight, for that age, I was remarkably unperturbed.

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**Author:** ![edwards\_beard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7bcc69/32.png) [@edwards\_beard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/edwards_beard)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2016, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-make-of-this-bizarre-comment-compliment/760392/24 "2016-07-22T04:21:12Z")

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“If you were human, I still wouldn’t care what you think. Na Noo Na Noo”

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**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2016, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-make-of-this-bizarre-comment-compliment/760392/25 "2016-07-22T19:29:17Z")

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> [@Shoeless](#):
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> Sort of related to the OP: Back in college I worked part-time in the college bookstore. Frequently, there would be a college girl shopping for a t-shirt or sweatshirt for her brother, boyfriend, etc. and would come up to me with an item of clothing and ask “If you were a guy, would you wear this?” And I would give them my best :dubious: and say '_ **IF** _ I was a guy?"

I like to amuse myself when asking my father’s opinion about something guy-related:

“Pop, you’re a guy, right?”

When he agrees, I can then ask my question, which usually has to do with why guys have to adjust themselves.

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