I've been working on it for a few minutes now. No matter how hard I try it does not work. Moving my eyes this way and that till I'm crossed eyed makes no difference. It's impossible to look through my eye lashes.
Now you would have thought a scientific study would have been done long before this about this serious matter. What will all the writers of romance do without this handy looking-at-someone-without-looking-like-you're-looking-at-them device? How many books in the genre will be effected by this astonishing bit of news?
Now I have to admit, if a person has downward sloping eyelashes or falsies for that matter this might be achievable. Which makes me wonder why such things are required to be cast as the romantic interest in a romance novel.
Can't people with upward sloping eyelashes fall in love? What kind of prejudice is this? People whose eyelashes slope up are not romantically inclined??? Isn't it time we shine a bright light on this issue? Isn't it time to make a stand and say "Hey! My eyelashes slope upward and I still fell in love!"
I just want to voice my outrage that this issue has been completely ignored by the press. Everyone just reads their romance novels and blindly ignores the perils of trying to look through eyelashes! I was going cross eyed just trying it. There could be naive young girls all over the country trying this out on unsuspecting males who will be frightened out of their wits when they call 911 to report girls having siezures. 911 could become flooded with calls - real emergencies could go unattended - disaster could ensue.
What is needed here is a public awareness campaign. People could be analyzed, their eye lash type could be determined and they could be approved or rejected for looking through their eyelashes and those who do not qualify could be provided counseling to correct the misconception that the ability to look through one's eyelashes is crucial to flirting, courtship and marriage.
