I agree with Wild Flower that the man sounded open-minded, and showing female mixed gender traits, especially considering that he just came from an art show..ON HIS OWN, and actually talked to Angelique for three hours. Most cis men aren't known for art shows or talking.
Studies show that most high IQ, creative people are androgyne..since humans are a gender sliding scale. On the far ends of the scale..the most macho males and femme females are the most likely to have successful relationships and raise progeny-yet average the lowest IQs, but as the scale moves more toward the middle, the average IQ climbs.
The mixed gender and high IQ affects make these people less likely to want to settle down and raise children, as they are often off writing novels, inventing things, starting companies, starring in movies, etc.
Of course Angelique is beautiful, so that is likely a main reason for not taking off. But in my experience with cis men, they are often so nervous about seeming "gay" they wouldn't keep hanging around hopefully.
I'm a partial transmale, or bi-gender, or dual gender-I have both separate male and female personalities, and lack many/most female instincts, but men still hit on me, despite my hostility and total lack of encouragement to their efforts.
I mostly treat males as pals, and even when I plainly told them, which I always did in my male sympathy for them, that they should find a "real girl," they wouldn't leave...the predator instinct was so strong.
Their reason (when I asked my exes years later) was usually that I was most beautiful woman they had ever had a chance to hang with.
Men have this eternal optimism, which is necessary for braving female rejection to gain a mate.
I'm not even cis male but I'm male enough to have that same blind predatory instinct for attractive females, despite being asexual. I am attracted, but without sexual attraction. I'm also panromantic.
Or I did. Once I came out to myself and began acknowledging my male personality, that part of me became so strong that I was embarrassed. As far as I know, I look like a 64 year old female, yet my male side could pick up girls so quickly often I didn't notice until I was heading off with giggling girls on each arm. Straight, 20-something, beautiful girls. It makes no sense.
Once my female side realized what was happening, I'd feel mortified, and find an excuse to ditch the girls. That's when I started taking a Thai herb, derris scandens, that Thai people take for back pain, because I noticed it causes my two gender personalities to blend, thank heavens.
