Sexual aspect

During the invasion, the sexual aspect is invisibly present. A girl who enters the territory of a man will be met with completely different signals than those that mark her entry into the female territory. Her invasion can be met more tolerantly, and perhaps in her actions they will see the beginning of flirting. On the contrary, the invasion of a man into the territory of a girl usually causes her to raise alarm signals.
The signal, which invariably is sent by the aggressors, sounds like this: “You are nobody, and therefore I can invade your space. You mean nothing.
Such a signal, sent in body language by the boss during a business conversation between him and his subordinate, can demoralize the latter and be useful for the boss. Such a signal confirms the superiority of the authorities. In a crowded subway car, the signals may be read differently. An important condition for being in public transport is ignoring the identity of people around you. Caught at intimate distance from each other, people actually have to deny someone else’s presence. It is believed that a person who turns to another in a crowded carriage commits an act of bad taste. In order to overcome the inconvenience in relations between people, it is required to move away from other people. Never in the movies a girl And a young man meet in crowded subway cars. It does not happen. Even in Hollywood.
Overcrowding in subway cars, according to Sommer, is tolerable simply because the passengers "depersonalize" each other. But as soon as the situation forces them to recognize the existence of others, such as during unexpected stops, they may feel a sharp rejection of their position.
The reverse is also true: in a rarefied atmosphere, treating a person as an impersonal being will irritate him. Miss Rousseau noticed that one of the readers in the library looked up and looked coldly at her. Using body language, he made her understand: “I am a person. What is your right to invade my life without permission? ”
He resorted to body language to repel her invasion, and she felt such a force of his resistance that she could no longer conduct her experiments throughout the rest of the day. Her inability to continue working was caused by the fact that the man, whose solitude she violated, unexpectedly broke through her own defense, and for the first time during the experiment she felt that he was a man, and not an object of observation. The ability to feel in another human being is essential for understanding how we act and react to other people's actions during a conversation in body language. Dr. Sommer notes that an impersonal being cannot invade personal space just as a tree or a chair cannot. Similarly, there are no problems when invading the personal space of an impersonal being.