This is overthink dude. At this rate you are never going to take off your training wheels and stop being stuck at incompetence.

Start applying the material dude. You are analyzing the microcosms of TRP into analysis paralysis and I'm just going to start deleting your posts if they look like this.

You're doing yourself a tremendous disservice. Your next 3 posts better be field reports of you trying this shit.

To answer your question, it depends. It's not a magical formula. Some times you happen to make eye contact with them, some times it's the other way around. Go with the flow your question is sheer autism.

General rule of thumb is that women don't do much by accident. They usually look, touch, talk on purpose

Stop overthinking it's getting pathetic. No woman wants a guy who can't think for himself. No girl is getting wet for the guy overthinking the living fuck out of whether he should be comfortable make eye contact without it being an existential and philosophical power struggle.

Fucking look at them if you want to telegraph a quick ioi and see if they give you a green light. Dear Lord dude. Sometimes it's you sometimes it's them. It's a basic as shit social interaction that sometimes heavily progresses a set to start and have an interested tone to it. That's all it is

You and our guys on here need to go with the fucking flow and have fun. Women hate this shit you guys ask on here. Go live your life

It's not a power struggle ffs, you are looking at a complete stranger, which is generally against regular social decorum, so that you two might quickly fuck and make it sexual from stranger to sex. So of course one of you should look at each other dear lord

What usually gets em is the strong initial eye contact into disinterest. Trust

Generally women are waiting for guys they fancy to ask them out.

You have to let her know you like her and get her wanting to be asked. Eye contact is a very good opener and it tests the waters -does she hold the contact, do you catch her glancing back.

OK it gives them some sort of power but you have to give them some sort of power or nothing heats up in their minds. The power of possibility is very powerful to women, it is part of hypergamy -something new, something better might happen.

I find it almost impossible to reply to these kinds of questions without sarcasm.

Sigh.

Is making eye contact with girls giving them power?

Yes. They use their feminine mystique to siphon away some of your masculine essence from your soul. Make enough eye contact with enough women enough times, and it's curtains for you.

You should always be staring at the ground to prevent this.

(do I really need the /s?)

The correct mindset is who gives a fuck! This type of worry or question isn't going to help you out in the slightest with women. If you can't just be a normal person that makes normal eye contact women will hate you. The more you think about this, the more you are fucking yourself over. Is that what you desire?

What the shit is this?

Stop overthinking it. Just look at people like a normal person.

Basic psychology. Eye contact is important in asserting your confidence, but you don't want to go overboard and make it uncomfortable. At that point, you're asserting aggression. This goes for both men and women.