We totally feel you, Emily! And yet, when dudes do this to us on the street, we always, invariably, end up smiling. (Why? Why?)
We liked what these readers said. We also liked that someone chose the screen name “SkyPork”…
SkyPork said:
We don't always want you pedestrian babes to smile; sometimes we like that droopy eye-lidded, open-mouthed, "I'm so horny I can't think straight" expression favored by Victoria's Secret cover girls. But "smile, baby!" almost always gets better results than "make that face like you're five seconds from orgasm, baby!"
My bet is, the dicktards you pass on the street get a feeling of control when you do what they say. Plus (follow the Man-logic here carefully), if you smile because he told you to, he can take full responsibility for brightening your day. So, you see, in effect, you owe him.
jane said:
I feel similar on the smile front, part of me is immediately offended when a random man tells/asks me to smile for him(also seriously, what the eff is going through his head?), but unfortunately, I can almost never not smile in these situations, whether I feel good about it or not. It's probably just the odd, random attention.
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