I do not like to be stared at.
Yes, I know that is my problem and I should not expect the rest of the world to conform to my issue. There, happy? Everytime you complain nowadays people want to tell you “maybe the issue is you and you should not expect the rest of society to adjust to your issues”. There I said it for you…can we continue?
However, there are some adults that will just look and look and look at you when you enter a room and it’s nonsense. There’s nothing new under the sun. I want to ask them, “Have you never seen a human being before?”
I am a dude. I imagine this is 1 million times worse for women.
Staring in public, waiting your turn in line, maintaining a normal talking volume in public. I think I learned all that in kindergarten or before. Some adults need to Billy Madison themselves and go back to kindergarten.
I find this is quite a cultural thing. Italians stare a lot in my experience. I’ve been stared at a lot in countries where I’m the shiny white boy or because I have a beard (beards aren’t really a thing in China).
Where I live staring is fairly taboo (Ireland) and can even illicit the classic Dublin line “why don’t you take a photograph? It’ll last longer”
Definitely cultural. You will have a bad time if you expect people to not stare at you in India for example.