The moment a woman tells a man she’s in a relationship and he persists, he’s not just a nuisance—he’s an asshole. And that goes both ways.

If a man is going to be persistent, he needs to learn to read the room. Some women respond to it, but you clearly weren’t, and it seems that was obvious. There’s a difference between flirtatious persistence, when it becomes a bit of a consensual game, and just being pushy.