Huang Leyi (Cindy)

Dr. Marquardt

ENG 1430 W 10

April 2, 2015

Word Count: 239

              Response to Women Smile

“The women without smile are too serious to associate.” It is a common perspective of most people, so it shows the phenomenon that the society requires women to smile in nowadays. According to this article, smile is a tool to express human’s relief, merriment, and the return to others, which is born with human. However, smile has much more purposes today, it is because the society constructs figure of women which asks women to smile to show their friendly, active, gentle, and beautiful. For the women, especially the women work in public service, they have to smile to fit the figure and their smile is for others’ feeling, so the smile becomes a mask for women to being “women”. Because that women use smile to hide sorrow, embarrassed, pain and nervous, just like Chabon, so many women are faking.

Furthermore, over last 2000 years, the attitude of society is strict to women’s smile, so the women can only smile at appropriate festival. By contrast, it is clearer that society decides women to smile or not. It is really unfair for women. On the other hand, women’s smile isn’t always useful, such as the incident referred to in the article, the woman can explain but she chose smile which made the things worse.

In a word, the society pushes women to smile, even if women are tired to smile to others. How ridiculous situation it is.