What is microflirting? By Richard Godwin
Microflirting is when you flirt with someone in an extremely subtle way, with plausible deniability. It’s a flick of the hair. A narrowing of the eyes. A focusing of interest. In a digital context, it might involve liking the occasional post or lingering too long over a reply. It is not flirting, exactly, but it is a necessary prelude to flirting, a way of testing the water, so that when you accelerate to, for example, licking your lips and saying, ‘How about it, big boy?’, you can be reasonably sure you haven’t got the wrong end of the stick. Semantically speaking, microflirting is part of the same family as microaggression, which is a way of describing those small acts of unpleasantness, intentional or not, that can really ruin a person’s day. Just as the microaggressor is sometimes entirely unaware that they’re causing hurt, so the microflirter will often remain blithely...
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