Most women who have been out in public have experienced random dudes telling them to smile.
Whether it’s the incredibly condescending ‘smile, gorgeous’ or the absolutely infuriating ‘cheer up, darling, it’s not all bad’, it happens all the time, and it’s genuinely ridiculous that it’s still a thing.
But it is. And worse, now one woman is receiving rape threats for refusing to give in and flash a smile.
Writer Nora McInerny Purmort’s husband passed away from brain cancer this year, so maybe she isn’t quite in the ‘running down the street grinning’ mood. But obviously, random men on the street don’t stop… Read the full story