Kimberly Steele

https://www.eviemagazine.com/post/did-millennials-finally-kill-flirting

Men Are Now Too Afraid To Approach After years of being told that unwanted advances = harassment, men simply don’t want to risk approaching women out in the real world, for fear of being accused of a dark motive later.

Before this sterilized culture emerged, we would naturally send signals, some subtle and some overt, that acted as clues for us to determine if someone were romantically interested. Maybe we caught their eye across the room and held their gaze. Maybe we smiled at them on the bus. This would be the signal for a man to make a more overt move – approaching us to chat or ask for our number.

But why would a man make a more explicit move – or start the flirtatious dance at all – if he fears he’ll be rebranded as someone sinister just for doing so?

She correctly identifies a situation and makes a brave but incomplete attempt at a solution

If we want to revive a culture where it’s okay to flirt, the onus is really on women to make it clear to men that we’re okay with being approached in public – that we’re either going to accept their offer or politely decline, not brand them as a creeper if we’re not interested. (Men, of course, also need to clearly read our signals, whether they’re signals of interest or disinterest, and be willing to go away when we say no.)

This solution doesn't really address the fact that individual women can present a trap still for men to step on and blow their foot off. In practice how this can only happen is if women who engage in clearly false attention seeking are "canceled" and that can only happen if a society chooses not to simply "believe all women." (Who happen to not be accusing a Clinton or a Biden at the time)

This clearly won't happen. Why should it happen? Would it even be ideal if it did happen?