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.
What do you have to say on
the subject? Tell
us—nay, the world—here.
