It’s a classic line on all TV comedies, brought about by a
buxom female standing in front of a man.
“Hey, eyes up here, buster!” She says as she looks sternly up at the
guy. The implication being that he is looking at her breasts and not into her
eyes.
It draws a big laugh because usually the guy isn’t looking
where she thinks. He’s just some hapless guy or foil to the actress. When the
scene unfolds, he’ll look stunned that she even thought that and mumble
something incoherent as he scrambles off screen.
This happens in the regular world too. Perhaps without the
woman being so aggressive or the guy being meek, but it happens regularly.
The problem though is that although the male may like the
female form, he’s not really focusing on the breasts, he’s just looking
downward. That’s right, the male is often taller than the female and so is
looking down.
Now, I like tall women, and sometimes even fantasize about
running into a gorgeous Amazon warrior who will ride up to me on her stallion
and grab me by the collar and take me back to her lair.
However, most of my life I’ve gone out with, worked with or
just hung around with females who were shorter. So, I looked down. No, not in
disdain, but physically looked down at her (mainly into her eyes).
In the US, the average height of men is 5 feet 9 inches,
while the average for women is 5 feet 4 inches.
In other words, it’s not uncommon for men to be looking down when talking
to women. So do men’s eyes wander farther down? Possibly. So do women hope that men are looking down
there? That could also be possible.
