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So what is it? Guys can't see hints no matter how obvious they are? Or guys take a simple compliment as a move?
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Normalize being nice to men so that they can normalize having people be nice to them >

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The guys that take it non-platonically are projecting. This is what they do when they want to hit on someone. So they assume that's what the woman is doing. 
Plenty of guys accept compliments with grace and don't assume anything more. >

Isn't it a common meme that guys can't see hints, no matter how obvious they are? I know I am like that. A compliment would be the last thing I would take non platonically. >

My dad once said "you know those things they use to wave planes onto runways? I think a girl would need to use those for me to think she was into me"
I am very much the same way. >

I've taken everything as platonic because that's precisely what I don't want to misinterpret. They could slap me in the face with the obvious, and I deliberately still wouldn't get it, simply because I don't want to overstep to an assumption.