Some men flirt. Sometimes we like it and sometimes we don’t. Grow up, little girls.
Though I haven't thought about it in many years, I was raised in an environment wherein it was good manners to behave flirtatiously with women in social settings. If you didn't flatter them artfully and show attention in social situations, you were considered ill-mannered and boorish.
Cain strikes me as a gentleman cut from that general cloth.
In my experience, the normal course of conduct of southern gentlemen would be called sexist, or harrassment by a significant number of northern females.
you’re right
that’s what it was imo
Or as my sister (strong Southern woman) used to say: "Time to put on your big girl panties".