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A chat on subreddit /r/me_irl
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AFAB people, in my experience, also compliment things that you CAN change about yourself rather than physical characteristics. Usually, I get compliments about how ‘beautiful’ I am from strange men (almost always cis-men). AFAB tell me my makeup looks nice. The latter is so, SO much better.
gpt
One season at work I was into wearing nice sweaters over my uniform. My female coworker gave me a compliment, saying "love that sweater, the pattern is really nice on that one!". My male coworker said, "I really like your sweater, not every body type can pull it off, but you can".

Guess which compliment I liked and which one made me feel horribly uncomfortable? When women compliment, they see the subject they are complimenting, whereas with my male coworker, he only saw how it complimented my "body".

Edit: I feel like this is probably the disconnect in general here. Women and men make compliments for different reasons. I feel like since a lot of men give compliments as a way to flirt, they will also receive compliments as flirting as well, which is why a guy will "fall in love" immediately when a women compliments his new hair style. When in fact, women really are just complimenting the subject matter and nothing more.