I grew up wearing a face veil for religious reasons and was mostly invisible to men. Recently I started experimenting with taking off the face veil, and I’ve been shocked by how differently I’m treated by men (women have been mostly the same except maybe more interactive). Everywhere I go, I notice men taking notice of my face and really looking at it before looking away. It’s a good two seconds and sometimes more. I literally would never have a single man ever even glance at me when I was covered up. Many men have struck up conversations with me. Just random conversations and smiling and things like that. I traveled recently, and the tsa guy checked me extra but afterwards he was super nice and kept apologizing and thanking me for being so patient. He also asked me if I have a husband with me when he first saw me. I went to a coffee shop, and the male barista kept smiling and staring and giggling, saying “I got you” over and over again while giggling, and making me repeat my order just for the jokes of it. It was weird When I was walking down the airplane aisle and heading to my seat (it was pretty congested so it was taking a while), I noticed multiple things. First, almost every single man looked at me as I walked past. One of them said something to me but I couldn’t make it out. I kind of shyly just smiled at him, he looked like he really wanted me to respond and he kept looking at me hopefully but I just moved on. Another stared at me and didn’t look away even after I did that uncomfortable glance at him and look way thing like 3 times. I’ve asked some airport agents for help and they went above and beyond, walking with me for a bit and cracking jokes and the like. After I had left the airplane, and I was standing at the gate, a crew member looked at me and thanked me. Only me. There were tons of people around us. It’s possible he was talking to someone else but looking at me while he said it… I had my nephew with me on the airplane, and he was smiling and waving at each passenger who was exiting the plane. Everyone smiled and waved back, but quite a few young men traveling together did this strange roundabout thing where they’re pretending to look away but I can see the edges of their eye on me. Sorry if that doesn’t make sense, basically they stole a glance at me before looking away while pretending not to have done that. I went to a kids birthday party with some other adults, and there was guy making customized jewelry. Other adults with me ordered some. Before doing theirs, the guy randomly came over to me, gave me a bracelet, I said I didn’t order one, I think you meant to give this to her. He said no, I made this for you. Give me your wrist. Shocked, I gave him my wrist, and he put it on my wrist (he said he used this color to match my scarf). And so on and so forth. Is this normal for women, or are all these guys being a bit flirty? It’s hard for me to know because of my background, so I’d love to hear what you guys think. submitted by /u/helloprogress
Originally posted by u/helloprogress on r/AskMen