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I have heard from multiple people that eye contact is essential in letting a girl (or guy, I guess) know you're interested.

But what is the 411 when it comes to said eye contact? Do you keep looking until she does? Do you then keep staring? Or is like looking at the sun? What's the deal?

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[–] krazzyk@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

From my experience, if you make eye contact, look away briefly, then look back. If she's still looking at you, hold eye contact for a moment and smile. If she likes you, she'll likely smile back.

If she's purposely avoiding making eye contact the second time, don't be a creep, carry on with your day πŸ‘Œ

[–] Iamsqueegee@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

There’s a very thin line between the longing look of admiration and the cold gaze of a serial killer.

[–] tired_n_bored@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

No no no. If she's purposely avoiding eye contact you have to stare at her with wide open eyes and a big smile.

If she walks away follow her, if she starts running away from you, run after her. She's telling you to come over.

That's how you conquer a woman /s

[–] Cordinel@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 3 months ago

We are like the least qualified social media to answer this

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] Konstant@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Works 100% percent of the time.

[–] donkeyass@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 3 months ago

60% of the time it works all the time.

[–] Lyre@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

In her book "How to talk to anyone" Leil Lowndes suggests that when speaking with women it's best to maintain constant, unbroken eye contact to signal attention and interest. She goes on to note that even when engaged in conversation with multiple people one should act as if their eyes are constantly glued to the woman, only briefly looking away when another person is speaking and behaving as if your eyes are irresistibly drawn back to the woman of interest. She believes this formula is best in male to female conversations and female to female conversation.

By contrast, she notes that when engaged in a male to male conversation, one should regularly break eyecontact as not to be perceived as a threat. However, one should still act as if your eyes are being irresistibly drawn back to theirs.

.... I have no idea what Lowndes's qualifications are and frankly this sounds like a formula written by an alien trying to understand humans but hey maybe theres some merrit to it idk

[–] tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

She goes on to note that even when engaged in conversation with multiple people one should act as if their eyes are constantly glued to the woman, only briefly looking away when another person is speaking and behaving as if your eyes are irresistibly drawn back to the woman of interest.

Honestly, as a woman, if a man started doing this to me in a group I'd be freaked the fuck out

[–] weegee90@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

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Focussing.... Focussing....

[–] Vanth@reddthat.com 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yep. As if women would never perceive men as a threat based on the same signals men would use to perceive threat.

Men, logical and hunter warrior manly men. Women, attention seekers. Therefore, stare down pretty women to show manly manness.

Alpha bro evo psych is so wild.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Yeah but due to conditioning from many generations of patriarchy, the man being perceived as a threat might actually help his chances. A disproportionately high ratio of women seem to enjoy threatening sexual partners.

If getting laid is the only goal, the male has more to fear from not trying than fear of rejection. That and pepper spray.