The Jedi Mind Trick

I am completely not an expert on this, so give me a little leeway when I say, that when a boy likes a girl, he generally doesn't beat around the bush too much. Sure, he'll feel things out a little bit, making sure he's not about to get fully humiliated, but generally... when a boy likes a girl, he goes for it and asks her out.
Now, girls are another story. I don't even think "beating around the bush" remotely begins to cover it. You've seen those movies where the football coach points and gestures a lot at a playboard(?) and makes circles and draws arrows? And those war movies in which there's a map and figurines and the leaders move them around as they make their strategies? And of course the Star Wars movies in which Obi Wan performs countless mind tricks? Well, combine all of those thoughts and add a little more girliness and you've got the basic girl mentality when it comes to the guy she's into.
Kinda scary, huh?
We like to plan, we like to manipulate. And by "like" I mean of course that it's our nature. It's fun to create the playing field, the game, and be the winner all at once. And how is it that we do this? Well, it's based a lot on common sense, really. We know that men like the thrill of the chase, so we know to rotate ourselves from being available and unavailable, warm and sub-zero, saran-wrap and... air. That's probably enough metaphors. Anyways, further than that, we also know how to flip our hair, giggle at semi-lame jokes, and talk intelligently when it's required. Attracting people is like a fun game for us. And also a hell of a challenge. Which is where the strategizing comes in.
Times of day that we can "bump" into you, inside jokes that we can bring up every so often via text, just to make conversation, and so on. No, those things do not just kinda happen. They are carefully and meticulously executed, like a sports play or a military manuever.
Sometimes I wonder, though, why we go through all this. I mean, it would just be simpler to ask a guy on a date as soon as you realize you're into him instead of stalking him for hours upon hours on Facebook and then commencing withe Operation Boy. Yes, it would, but what guy wants to be asked out by a girl when he could be enticed to do so himself? Not a lot. And I know that "confidence is sexy" but it's been demonstrated that interest is generally held longer when the person is harder to get. If the game ends too soon because it's too easy no one is going to want to play. Plus, what would we all do with our time when we're not busy trying to get someone to fall for us?