Is there any difference between their usage?

ktkr said:
Is there any difference between their usage?

None?

'Inviting' would be like presenting, except they aren't showing their ass/genitals directly at anyone.
I would use 'inviting' instead of 'presenting' to describe stuff like post #79455 and post #82756.

Presenting is when you're showing off. Inviting is when you're either wagging your finger(come hither), or saying something to get the target to approach.

Ultima_Weapon said:
Presenting is when you're showing off. Inviting is when you're either wagging your finger(come hither), or saying something to get the target to approach.

Couldn't have said it better...

My question is when did the girl-clique douche language of "presenting" get so ingrained into the modern vocabulary?

How is it girl-clique? if a girl is presenting herself to you, she is giving you an offering, like you would to your master or king. It's probably been around since medieval times.

Girl-clique as in, the original contexts that I can recall about it in regards to a girl, were other girls making fun with it. Guys' first thoughts aren't "ooh, she's presenting". It's "it wants to fuck me". "Presenting" in this usage sure feels like it's coming from some feminist's invention to categorize how some girls approach guys, using a word that, currently and since the mid-80s, was used by scientists for mating habits. I can't find any reference before '83 of scientists being cute with it. They were rather blunt actually.

I consider "presenting" part of our junk language, where everything has to have a term even if it was already called something else. People like categorizing and pigeon holing everything into smaller and smaller groups. Which is where this topic comes in. WHY would "presenting" and "inviting" have to be two different things? They don't. People will search for "presenting", but "inviting"? It's a subgroup to a term that doesn't require subgroups.

I kinda think that "presenting" is like me waving my ass at you, and "inviting" is me telling you to come and get it. They aren't all that different, but they're still different.