RE: Smile!

Collarspace Discussion Forums

Home Login Search

RE: Smile!

View related threads: (in this forum | in all forums)

Logged in as: Guest

All Forums >> [Casual Banter] >> Off the Grid >> RE: Smile!

Page: << < prev 1 [2]

Message

<< Older Topic Newer Topic >>

RE: Smile! - 8/30/2013 3:57:31 PM

littlewonder

Posts: 15659
Status: offline

I absolutely hate when men tell me this. Anytime they have done this to me I usually stick my tongue out at them and keep on walking. Out of all things that annoy me that's probably in the top 5.

I think I get men telling me this on the streets about 2 times a week. I'm not upset. I'm not scowling. I just have a neutral look. If I have something to smile about then you will see me smiling. Otherwise, it's just gonna hurt my face to be smiling all day. No thanks.

< Message edited by littlewonder -- 8/30/2013 4:03:32 PM >

_____________________________

Nothing has changed
Everything has changed

(in reply to hlen5)

Profile

Post #: 21

RE: Smile! - 8/30/2013 4:06:15 PM

sunshinemiss

Posts: 17673
Joined: 11/26/2007
Status: offline

Neutral expressions are considered scowling in Korea... thus the new smile surgery (this is not in fact a joke).

_____________________________

Yes, I am a wonton hussy... and still sweet as 3.14

(in reply to littlewonder)

Profile

Post #: 22

RE: Smile! - 8/30/2013 6:16:40 PM

NuevaVida

Posts: 6707
Joined: 8/5/2008
Status: offline

Holy Cow - severing the jaw muscles? Wowser.

_____________________________

Live Simply. Love Generously. Care Deeply. Speak Kindly.

(in reply to sunshinemiss)

Profile

Post #: 23

RE: Smile! - 8/30/2013 6:43:51 PM

ARIES83

Posts: 3648
Status: offline

quote:

ORIGINAL: sunshinemiss

Neutral expressions are considered scowling in Korea... thus the new smile surgery (this is not in fact a joke).

Whats scowling considered then?!

<me

_____________________________

530 DAYS

(in reply to sunshinemiss)

Profile

Post #: 24

RE: Smile! - 8/30/2013 7:16:15 PM

LookieNoNookie

Posts: 12216
Joined: 8/9/2008
Status: offline

quote:

ORIGINAL: hlen5

quote:

ORIGINAL: Marc2b

quote:

Men who tell me to "smile"!

///////////////////////////

This is a bigger complaint than most men realize.

http://amptoons.com/blog/2004/10/07/smile-damn-you-smile/

/////////////////////////////

This deserves an off-topic thread to itself!! Thanks for the link!
/////////////////////////////

How annoying do the women here find this? Random strangers telling you how to rearrange your face?

Have any of you men actually heard this from someone you don't know on the street?
_____________________________

From the article:

"What is surprising is that so many people in these discussions don’t get just how entitled one must be in to order a perfect stranger to smile at them. At the very least, it’s rude, boorish, and rather obnoxious......"

and.....

"Last year in college I took a polisci class on feminism, and one of our assignments one weekend, after having read a piece by [Miss Manners], was to go out and basically do something that you wouldn’t expect someone of your gender to do. Most girls did things like open the door for their boyfriends or pay for dinner, but I went out and told random men on the street to smile. I’m Southern and a manners stickler, but let me tell you that I never had so much fun being balls-out rude in my LIFE. You’d think I had actually said something like “Did you know your penis is very, very small?” They were just appalled."

Wow.

Why wouldn't you want to smile?

You're one of God's magical creatures.

To be swayed by some claptrap college (kid) know it all's, or some foolish bullshit "study", only puts those of you which were born with rainbows in a horrible position....don't smile....don't bring what you uniquely were born with.

I love a woman's smile....it brings me energy.

It makes me happy.

A woman's smile is magical....it's warmth on a winter day.

(in reply to hlen5)

Profile

Post #: 25

RE: Smile! - 8/31/2013 12:07:12 AM

needlesandpins

Posts: 3901
Status: offline

our smiles are that way when they are inspired, not ordered.

needles

_____________________________

I deserved better. Not than you, but from you.

(in reply to LookieNoNookie)

Profile

Post #: 26

RE: Smile! - 8/31/2013 2:00:03 AM

hlen5

Posts: 5890
Joined: 3/2/2008
Status: offline

quote:

ORIGINAL: needlesandpins

our smiles are that way when they are inspired, not ordered.

needles

Beautifully said. Well done!!

_____________________________

My fave Thread: http://www.collarchat.com/m_2626198/mpage_1/tm.htm

One time "Phallus Expert Extraordinaire"

(in reply to needlesandpins)

Profile

Post #: 27

RE: Smile! - 8/31/2013 2:03:25 AM

hlen5

Posts: 5890
Joined: 3/2/2008
Status: offline

Lookie,

Not wanting to smile doesn't enter into this. It's being TOLD TO DO SO BY RANDOM STRANGERS.

What prerogative does any other individual have to TELL someone they don't know how to arrange their facial features?

_____________________________

My fave Thread: http://www.collarchat.com/m_2626198/mpage_1/tm.htm

One time "Phallus Expert Extraordinaire"

(in reply to LookieNoNookie)

Profile

Post #: 28

RE: Smile! - 8/31/2013 2:06:26 AM

DaddySatyr

Posts: 9381
Joined: 8/29/2011
From: Pittston, Pennsyltucky
Status: offline

<------------------ Raised by a professional photographer. It's in some of my earliest behavior engrams to tell people to smile.

_____________________________

A Stone in My Shoe

Screen captures (and pissing on shadows) still RULE! Ya feel me?

"For that which I love, I will do horrible things"

(in reply to hlen5)

Profile

Post #: 29

RE: Smile! - 8/31/2013 2:09:28 AM

hlen5

Posts: 5890
Joined: 3/2/2008
Status: offline

Being told by a photographer is appropriate if they are taking your picture at the time.

_____________________________

My fave Thread: http://www.collarchat.com/m_2626198/mpage_1/tm.htm

One time "Phallus Expert Extraordinaire"

(in reply to DaddySatyr)

Profile

Post #: 30

RE: Smile! - 8/31/2013 3:53:15 AM

PeonForHer