is there ever a good time to blatantly state your interest in

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There were instances of flirting where I had my arms around her, I had my hand on her leg etc and she seemed to at least tolerate it, but I think my hand grazed her ass and she kind of jumped, along with one of the flirty moments she was all like "personal space" but I honestly can't tell, with her accent and such, if she was being flirty/sarcastic, serious, or what. Just in general since she's naturally kind of a cautious/shy/nervous etc girl she wasn't giving me either obviously positive/receptive feedback with flirting, which I'm used to and work with a lot better, or obviously uninterested signals.

So since then I've texted/snapchatted etc a few times and have really gotten no response, but that's not entirely uncommon with her...it's not like obvious she's not into me etc, especially since she's so shy and I could totally believe she's too shy to really show obvious interest.

She also is quite the liberal and has tweeted/shared pics showing mansplaining and other feminist stuff, so that's why I think maybe being like "hey sorry if I was too forward, or if I made you uncomfortable" etc might be a good thing since a lot of those kinds of feminists are all about how you're supposed to ask permission to hold hands etc, which i think is unrealistic.

I figure since I really don't have any real hopes of actually dating since we kind of live away from each other (though I guess I'd be open to it if she was) I would be ok if such a conversation backfired so I see it as a "it can only help/put it out in the open there's something between us" etc.

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