I hadn’t ever thought about that before. Thank you for relaying it.
I was told from very young that ‘no one is looking at you anyway’ by my older sisters. If I was saying that my clothes didn’t look good or my hair, for example, that’s what they’d tell me. So I have sort of the opposite anxiety as you do about scornful eyes upon me. For me, it’s ‘nobody’s looking’ no matter what I do.