What bugs her the most is that it’s OK for them to look at her. They think she doesn’t see them checking her out, but she sees them doing it, looking at her like she’s a piece of shit, and once she starts looking back at them, they get weird. Flaca thinks there’s something about eye contact that makes people feel less invisible. It makes people remember her. It’s like making the room dark and spotlighting just her and them. She staring, them squirming in their seat, not knowing what to do with their hands.
Further though about eye contact and what it means depending on who is doing the staring. Power play
