Unintentional flirting, allowing themselves to "play dumb" for too many specious reasons, "display" body syndrome -- in mostly inappropriate situations, asking ridiculous questions to assert their own sense of unworthiness (and flatter men), and about a hundred other behaviors -- all indicate that techniques for becoming adult are still learned in the court of "courtly love" traditions. These many behaviors become especially annoying when they are a substitute for seeking "real" knowledge, or simply establishing the reasons for their own self-esteem.
In America we all flirt badly --- too much, too little, nothing at all. But we shouldn't be broadcasting our lack of sensuality; we shouldn't be wallowing in our "grade school" romantic thinking. Life is deeper than an "Archie and Betty" comic book lifestyle.
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