why women smile

why women smile

  • Submitted By: cruz1on1
  • Date Submitted: 03/26/2014 8:02 AM
  • Category: English
  • Words: 1451
  • Page: 6


Fake or Not?
Often times people do things that are for the wrong reasons. They may not notice it at all, but others can easily observe it. From past experiences it is always easy for me to point out a “fake” laugh or a “fake” smile. Clearly, this being done is not genuine and seems to hide the feelings that should be coming out. The “fake” smile is something that is seen too often in society. It is becoming too easy and expected for people, especially women, to always have a smile on her face. Whether happy, sad, or angry a woman always finds some reason to smile. In Amy Cunningham’s Why Women Smile, she thoroughly describes the way she feels about the smile on a women’s face and that it happens too often and for all of the wrong reasons.
Throughout history the meaning of a smile has changed multiple times. Amy Cunningham has proven this through her writing in Why Women Smile. The smile of a woman went from being considered innocent and sincere, to a way of hiding other feelings that would rather not be shown, to a way to promote many different companies and products, and finally to something that was just expected of all women (Cunningham 325-328). When comparing the many different ways a smile was observed, for me it seems unfair that females were judged so much more by their smiles then men were. Even in the other centuries, women were the ones that were admired and painted by artists to show the meaning of a smile, and the many different senses that it can portray (Cunningham 327). This is true because a women’s smile can mean so many different things by the slight differences in expression. By the 1800s many pretty women started to appear in advertisements for various things. This eventually turned the smile into something that would promote sales and become expected of all. Other females looked up to these smiling women in hope to be more like the beautiful, content, and whole women (Cunningham 328-329). Today, the smile of a woman is something that is...

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