Universal flirting sign ......
“First the woman smiles at her admirer and lifts her eyebrows in a swift, jerky motion as she opens her eyes wide to gaze at him.
Then she drops her eyelids, tilts her head down and to the side, and looks away.
Frequently she also covers her face with her hands, giggling nervously as she retreats behind her palms .
This sequential flirting gesture is so distinctive that [German ethologist Irenaus] Eibl-Eibesfeldt was convinced it is innate, a human female courtship ploy that evolved eons ago to signal sexual interest."
I think it is a little like this
followed by this
Haha, I'm not sure about the jerky eyebrow motion, but looking back I do all of the other things. It's not something I consciously think of doing, so maybe Irenaus Eibl-Eibesfeldt is correct about it being innate.
I agree the description sounds a little exaggerated, maybe the jerky eyebrow motion is just a nervous twitch?
I seem to have this part of the flirting down pat, maybe because it just come natural. It's after this part where I struggle and the whole thing generally comes to dead stop. I don't seem to be good at consciously flirting.
The last couple weeks at the store, I've been exchanging the smiling thing with a male customer, but it's starting to fizzle out because neither of us seem to know what to do next, lol. There's also the part where he told my co-worker she's looking beautiful today, but only seems to be able to smile and blush with me.
I guess I can take it as a bad thing or perhaps I just make him so nervous he's speechless, haha.
Either way, the whole flirting game frustrates me, most likely because I lack the confidence in my ability to do it effectively, I seldom get the results I'm hoping for.
Edited by
Riverspirit1111
on Fri 09/18/20 01:29 AM