Well I'm just gonna derail that little thread right now
I'm witnessing a spectacular version of this right now. There's this girl I know from grad school, who is admittedly really quite attractive, and she has something like 500+ friends on Facebook, most of which (as far as I can tell) are male. She's always been uninterested in being in a relationship, due to family issues that I won't get into now. But recently those family issues were resolved, so she dropped one tiny hint about being receptive to having a boyfriend (something along the lines of posting an article about chivalrous behavior and commenting "I wonder if I will ever have a boyfriend who does this stuff?").
Her male Facebook friends have been absolutely pouring out of the woodwork, falling over each other to curry her favor. She can't post anything without at least six guys commenting on it in rather transparent attempts at courtship. If she posted, "My arms are really sore from moving today" she'd get comments along the lines of "Need me to give you a massage?", or "Are you sure you didn't hurt yourself? Need me to take you to the doctor?", or "So you have a new place, huh? Can I come visit? *winky emoji*" Or if she posted, "Can anyone recommend a good dermatologist in the Taoyuan area?" she'd get comments like, "Your skin's great, why would you need to go to a dermatologist?", or "Need me to take you to my doctor?", or "I'll be your dermatologist!" (I am not making that last one up)
I feel like this is what it would be like to witness all the suitors in Odysseus's house, trying to woo Penelope.
Also, if I was single, I would totally be one of those guys.