Two things. The guy was already rebutted sanely and acknowledged it. Also, we have a new one entitled to his (white)
womens.
BuggerBoy, it's a far more common mindset than any sane person would like to believe.
That said, per most problems in someone's life shyness isn't something that someone else can really fix for you. What you do is try, fail, try again, until you start managing not to fail. Just don't be creepy about it and you should be fine. That said, any further squawking on the subject should wind up in it's own thread before I have to break out the thread split tool again.