Aimyay wrote:

I've been bumping into a strange phenomenon lately,
a phenomenon which seems to repeat itself in a very consistent and almost regular pattern.

Around the age of 15/16 I kept an eye open for a nice young lady to possibly date and form some sort of intimate relationship with. Over those years I met a few interesting girls that I socialized with a quite a bit. I ended up inviting 3 of them (only two of them knew each other) to do fairly casual, non-imposing things such as coffee or lunch or dinner or sometimes a movie. All of them being single, only one of them took me up on the offer. The rest refused, saying they either weren't interested, or they "had other plans" in that tone of voice that is expected of someone who is in a rush to form some sort of excuse. And that one girl who did accept my offer set me aside and friend-zoned me a few days later, anyways.

As you would imagine I wasn't exactly enthralled about my luck with girls in general. I then came to the conclusion that I was the third wheel of theirs for a lot of things. So I did the easiest I could and cut them all loose. It's not like they cared, I got a small handful of mildly concerned texts and frowns in the hallway but that only lasted a month or so. I was pretty jaded and so I had decided that I'd give myself a nice long break from the opposite sex for the time being and focus all my time and money on only myself and my real friends.

NOW, one year to a year and a half later I've had all of these girls come to me some time within a year. They talk to me and pester me and poke and prod at me (to varying degrees due to each personality). It's like they completely forgot I was the kid they bluntly rejected barely 12 months ago. Even when I treat them like complete and utter trash to get them off my back they don't seem to get the idea. I haven't changed anything other than the way I've been distancing myself from girls for my own good. I look the same, I dress the same, I do the same things as before. What the hell do they want from me this time? Are they all masochists at this age or something? Is it something in the water? Have I started emitting pheromones that attract teenage girls?

Give me your thoughts, for the spirit of conversation, of course.

tl;dr: Oh great Crunchyroll forum, thy ultimate purveyor of advice regarding human relations, tell me, are all teenage girls (whether they're conscious of it or not) masochistic?