Yes,  this is what happens.  Also it seems to me that many women have have the habit of interpreting a larger than realistic percentage of interactions as &#x27;flirtatious&#x27;.<p>In other words some of the interactions that were deemed as &#x27;flirty&#x27; or even &#x27;creepy-flirty&#x27; would be seen as perfectly normal and gender neutral if they were presented as IRC transcripts in a scientific study.. I suspect they would not be picked out as &#x27;flirty&#x27; by the study group who was tailing the logs.