Why do boys do stuff with girls they don't really like?

Stuff. The most ambiguous word in the English language.

I wonder if you mean general stuff - like going to the cinema or playing Snap or breakdancing. If so, a boy wouldn't want to do these things with a girl he didn't like.

Playing Snap - for instance - is good, but it's better with someone you like. Otherwise your opponent would annoy you and lessen your enjoyment of the game and you'd want to throw cards at their head but couldn't because it would be inappropriate. That's pretty straight-forward.

Or are you talking about other kinds of "stuff" - like kissing and touching each other's legs? This is different.

Boys can wait for the right Snap partner to come along. But opportunities for "stuff" might not be so plentiful.

In fact, they might be so treasured that boys will snap up virtually every one they get. There's a term for this: desperate.

Plus, boys like girls in two very different ways: as people, and as objects. Even if we think a girl's an idiot, we'll happily put this to one side if they're an attractive object, for the sake of "stuff".

So we'll actually be doing "stuff" with the object, rather than the person. Shocking, I know.

So to sum up: a boy won't play Snap with someone he doesn't like, but he will let them touch his legs.

If you want to find out if a boy actually likes you as a person, challenge him to a game of Snap (or other general stuff) before doing "stuff" stuff.

If he's only after one thing: you can tell him to get stuffed.