It gives me so much pleasure to not laugh at mens’ dumb jokes.

I get this bullshit still in the pharmacy I work in. It isn’t as nauseating as when I was just a clerk and the male pharmacists would laugh and tell the patients I “needed to be broken in” when the patients would sexually harass me or make generally degrading comments. Now that I am a technician and work with the…

stoptellingwomentosmile is a really great Instagram account highlighting an international art project about this, if anyone is interested!

Hm. I don’t have a good quick response because it varies so much depending on who’s telling me, but one time a fucking TSA agent told me to smile when I was going through security and I simply said, “I don’t like it when men tell me to smile.”

ugh. and the even worse variant: “you would be so pretty if you just smiled.”

doing this to people at their place of business is a whole next level of power-play. I’m sorry you’re in that position. (and thanks for the reminder that this happens to men, too!)

Ugh, the stank eye...like, “you are ruining our fun!” No, dude, your penis is not her fun.

This reminds me SO MUCH of that photo of the douchebag Wall Street bro air humping the Defiant Girl statue.

I can’t believe how much it throws them; how invested they are (or have been forcibly invested by our society) with the notion that they are charming raconteurs and sparkling wits. It’s not like most of them even seem to have a conscious agenda of humiliation, they just automatically believe that anything and…

My usual response to a man who does that ‘hey why dont you smile’ bs is to ask them to ‘consider very carefully whether you’d actually like for me to bare my teeth at you’ or something similar.

I did once tell a man who said, “What can I do to make you smile?” that, “You can stop telling women what to do with their face.”

Ok now that’s just fucking gross.

So true. A personal story, my fiance had at one point said that I have no sense of humor. All of our friends, vehemently disagree and have my back.

*barf* Yep. “Aw honey, you’re so pretty! Why don’t you smile?” Because some creepy motherfucker just skeeved me the hell out, how’s that?

Crazy faces. I’m not even kidding. Otherwise, just a deadpan look of boredom and disappointment.

I fucking love grimacing my craziest grimace at dudes when they tell me to smile. Sometimes heavy breathing through my teeth for effect.

Oh come on, I was just kidding. Can’t you take a joke? You need to get a sense of humor.

I usually just put on my best RBF and give a deadpan, “No.”

Men get so uncomfortable when women don’t laugh or smile back at their stupid comments

The crazy way they react when you bluntly call them on their bullshit often ends up just making things worse.