Agreed. Eric displayed so little ability to react to oddness. Perhaps, "Why would you react with revulsion if I expressed the desire to fuck you? If it's because of cultural expectation or because you would interpret such an expression as an indication that I'm generally abrupt and crass, then the analogy fails to hold."

This is an instance of Hollywood-style rationality: it sounds like she's being "rational," but she takes a single implication and just stops thinking. This is doubly true because she then cites strong evidence that pretty much all of the guys she's around want to fuck her, so merely looking at her is a pretty good sign of this fact, so it seems likely that his asking her out is probably indicative of something extra. If the guy in question had been sharp enough to beat her at her own game, I wouldn't be surprised if she'd then wanted to go out with him.

But this hits a broader point: people with the mental sharpness needed to break a fairly intelligent Hollywood Rationalist are few and far between. Her misery seems to stem more from a lack of like-minded peers than it does from anything about the nature of her position. If she'd found a very sharp rationalist who'd taken interest in her and given her approval, she'd probably have been happy that way. This may say more about the importance of finding a like-minded peer group than about being hyper-rational.