Thank the assholes.
It's a complement and makes you feel good to have a babe that others covet.
I wouldn't have hooked up with my magnificent other if it weren't for one of them. Y'see we're in a bar, drinking and drunken, having a mellow chill time when one of these assholes starts the hitting. So, just to have peace at the table, we "pretend" we're together... and he's still hitting on her... and we're more and more playing the game... to get the message across, ya know?
Anyhow the pretending gets to necking and we completely forgot about this guy though he's drooling across the table from us. It was excellent.
It's up to the chick - dude you can get aggressive all you want but she's the person who makes the point - and chooses the tablemate she keeps. You just have to be the man. It's a simple role
"Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot."
-- Groucho Marx