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Broken Blogger on Smiling

Posted by Emily Farris

 


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Posted Apr 03 2008, 05:32 PM
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alexbiker said:

Ah.  Selection bias in action.  The kind of douchebag who would yell "Hey baby how 'bout a smile?" is the kind of wankerchops who would also expect them to smile all the time.

April 3, 2008 5:50 PM

alexbiker said:

Oh, and get well soon.

April 3, 2008 5:52 PM

mike123321 said:

"Give to get" works well. "Demand to get" comes from someone otherwise powerless. Sad, really. Are you really engaged??

April 3, 2008 7:57 PM

profrobert said:

I can't answer the basic question because I don't, as a habit, address strangers on the street (unless they've dropped something or there's some other necessity).  But I can say you have a gorgeous smile, and you should use it whenever you can because it will draw others to you (unless you don't want that).

April 3, 2008 11:37 PM

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.

April 4, 2008 12:26 AM

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.

April 4, 2008 1:10 PM

The D said:

Here's the deal. It's not a control issue and it comes from the ladies as well.

It's pretty simple. People want to see people happy. Instead of "why so sad?" being intrusive. You tell them to smile.

I could care less if strangers are smiling or not but seriously people don't over analyze the situation.

April 4, 2008 7:59 PM

About Emily Farris

Emily Farris writes about culture and food for numerous publications and websites you've probably never heard of, including her own blog eefers. Her first cookbook will be published in fall 2008. Emily lives in Greenpoint, Brooklyn with her cat, but just one...so far.

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Emily Farris writes about culture and food for numerous publications and websites you've probably never heard of, including her own blog eefers. Her first cookbook will be published in fall 2008. Emily lives in Greenpoint, Brooklyn with her cat, but just one . . . so far.

Brian Fairbanks is a filmmaker living in the wilds of Brooklyn. He previously wrote for the Hartford Courant and Gawker. He won the Williamsburg Spelling Bee once. He loves cats, women with guns, and burning books.

Nicole Pasulka is a Brooklyn writer and editor who's always on the lookout for the dirty. Her other virtual home is at The Morning News, where things are squeaky clean most of the time.

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