I was on a bus a couple of hours ago; a woman got up to be ready to get off at the next stop, and a guy sitting in one of the face-sideways seats started hassling her for not smiling. “Everyone else is smiling but you!” he informed her.
Nuh uh. I wasn’t, for one. I think there were others who weren’t.
He went on grumbling at her – sort of “joking” but in a pain in the ass way. She was certainly not amused.
It just reminded me, yet again, how odd it is the way women are considered a kind of public property, subject to being told what facial expression to have by total strangers and then hassled … Read the rest
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