In any case, much of what will be said below has some universal application. It is only because certain ways of looking have become so stereotyped that they are attributed to one sex alone. Common and widely recognised forms of looking include the look of anger or fear or elation. When an individual is angry it is usually done with a furrowed brow and most anger is clearly expressed at somebody else. Disapproval is another milder version of disapproval and so people try to scrutinise the face of another person to gauge whether they have done something wrong.
Humiliation is another universal eye contact issue.
A humiliated person often looks downward and thereby away from the person who has perhaps judged them. The subject of humiliation therefore avoids eye contact. That person is looked at, scrutinised, judged. They momentarily lose the right or power to have the courage to look. All these above examples form part of a myriad of social forms of eye contact and looking.