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  • Kusimulkku@lemm.eetome irl@lemmy.worldmeirl
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    13 hours ago

    The comic literally states that he should smile more and that is a demand on how he should be.

    “If you like X you should visit Y, you’d probably really like it”

    “How dare you demand I visit Y!”

    LOL






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    16 hours ago

    The whole idea that it would be a demand is baffling to me.

    Someone asking if you’re mad, assumes they know you in some way even if just in passing.

    Nope. It’s the same way as people might think someone looks happy, we just look at faces and try to interpret their emotions. And some people’s faces set off the “looks angry” assumption.

    In this situation you are the predator and the asker is the prey that is hoping that you already have a full belly.

    Taking the stance that someone else is a predator based on how they look and you might be their prey. And not only that, saying that aloud to them. Can be pretty damn insulting.













  • Kusimulkku@lemm.eetome irl@lemmy.worldmeirl
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    1 day ago

    you look cute

    Definitely a compliment

    you should smile more

    Dunno what the intention was, I read it as “you look cute when you smile” but could be “you would look (even) cuter if you smiled”. If it’s either of those, that’s going to my compliment book.

    And yes, men are famine level starved of positive attention. So this “creepy demand” (demand??) defintely would count for me.