TL:DR: The gospel of "maintain eye-contact" is false and will get you into unnecessary trouble, both physical(fights) as well as drama(workplace, etc)

Background: early 30's, 6'2, 190lb, have been athletic all my life, but with a blue-pill upbringing. Thinning hair, but just broke into the six-figure income level this year. Nice car, nice condo, nice clothes.

After reading the side-bar and many of the top-rated posts, I incorporated many of the elements of the RP in my lifting and things have been going great. But I think that there are aspects of the RP that are highly theoretical(at best) and downright stupid.

Maintain eye-contact is good advice, it shows confidence. But "don't be the 1st one to look away" is stupid advice because you'll run into posers/wannabe toughguys who watched HBO's the Wire or the Sopronaos and now think they are Alpha. As the the title says: 'dominant' eye-contact will lead to a staredown, which will then inevitably lead to "what da fak r u looking at, kok-saka". So what then, huh Master Red-Pill, O ye who preaches the eye-contact gospel? If you back down, if you look away, if you walk away, you're a submissive beta. You lost. You were dominated by a teenage kid who has nothing to lose and would happily go to jail on a assault charge. And if you adhere to the Eye-contact gospel, well, you've got a fight on your hands. No problem, you say, you can handle yourself, right? But can you handle a disordely conduct charge? Or better yet, a aggravated assault charge that will render you unemployable for life.

This is just not theorical musings. I tried out the whole eye-contact thing for a week. Got into 2 physical fights(won one, held my own on the other), one cussing out; and at least a couple of "weirdo" looks on people's faces.

I guess what I'm saying is: it's high time we brought common-sense and practicallity to the RP. Yes, maintain eye-contact, but don't be a creep about it. If you walk around eyeballing(even if you're not staring them down) people at work, expect more than one HR complain or to get a reputation as a creepy guy.

Some will say: it's not just the eye-contact, you also have to display amused mastery with a smirk or confident-smile. No, a smirk + a stare = I want to fight you OR I want to fuck you.

Maybe during the caveman era you can walk around dominating lesser beings with the intensity of your gaze, but in today world, you're just opening a genie bottle of problems heading you're way.