This is the point I am trying to make with my jokes. Women aren't animals. Certainly we differ from males in ways but trying to apply these formulas to us...why?
Is there a formula for men? What should I endeavor to be? Forward he might think I'm easy which I am not. Reserved he might think I am a cold bitch. (It depends on the type of guy as well.) Some women don't know what to do either. I never know what a man's intentions are or what he would expect of me.
This dance of socializing people do...it is little more than adherence to perceived patterns of acceptable and charming interaction. Do you look at those giggling female creatures and desire them? Are you looking for a girl or a woman? Casual or serious?
I think you need to meet people more organically. Interact with your friends, break into conversation when it is familiar and you find you have something to say. Give other people a chance to observe you as you are before you try to talk one on one.
Social anxiety makes things exponentially more difficult and "normal" people don't have it completely figured out either.
When I say I have to restrain myself, it is to comment on the generalizations of women. I believe you need to look at yourself as well as the opposite sex. Are the types of females you are interested in "appropriate." Are you only thinking of how they can make you feel or are you trying to find a partner?
I don't believe that women somehow don't like polite men, btw. There wouldn't be so many Jane Austen fans if this were true. Courtly love is not dead.
There are so many facets and conditions that may alter the circumstances and outcomes of interpersonal relations. Yet we try to simplify it to suit every individual when it realistically won't suit everyone.
Excuse my ranting, I can't be coherent at 3:30am.