This is my first time posting here. I believe it's the right place, although I wish I could have written in TRP due to a higher audience. I can't post there, can I?

I was reading this, the heartiste's sixteen commandments of poon, linked from these subs. Then I got into this paragraph

VI. Keep her guessing

True to their inscrutable natures, women ask questions they don’t really want direct answers to. Woe be the man who plays it straight — his fate is the suffering of the beta. Evade, tease, obfuscate. She thrives when she has to imagine what you’re thinking about her, and withers when she knows exactly how you feel. A woman may want financial and family security, but she does not want passion security. In the same manner, when she has displeased you, punish swiftly, but when she has done you right, reward slowly. Reward her good behavior intermittently and unpredictably and she will never tire of working hard to please you.

This school of thought is against mine and I'd like to debate a little bit over it. Okay, I understand heartiste's point of view, being mysterious and so and so. Up until now, I felt like directly expressing my interest in a woman can have two ways: either she takes it as an invitation and she's in, either she'd take it as a compliment and that's it, nothing bad for me, nothing bad for her. I legit couldn't care less about a certain woman unless she could offer me sex and I just dropped the bomb. She said she's not into that (and I was abandoning ship) but she still chases me, willing to talk/hang out. Could have gone the good way (and we fucked) or could have gone the other way and nothing happens, no time wasted on both sides.

What does TRP think about these two colliding trains of thought?

Is it talking about a woman you're taking seriously or sometihng you'd do in a LTR (or possible LTR)?

Also, you really have to be showing some interest (or you're indirectly doing that) when initiating a conversation with, let's say, someone you haven't talked to in a while because now she's looking way better than she did some years ago (just an example).

Floor is open to debate, please.