There are some men who, when they speak to a mixed sex crowd, never make eye contact with the women in the audience. For instance, I was one of ten people on a committee which had a meeting last week and there was this guy giving a presentation to us and never once in the enire hour did he ever make eye contact with me. I think this is not unusual, this failure to be comfortable with conversing with women on the same level as the men. I don't mean to be a profiler here, but I truly think that this is more common in men from some cultures than others. I think they are raised to not be comfortable talking with women. No worries. I know what it feels like to be afraid of something, to think you are going to catch cooties. Things like that use to frustrate me. Now they are a source of distraction from a boring talk. No worries.
