Do you have a frownsmile? Do you love someone who does? Is there a major figure in your life (former music teacher, bishop of pittsburgh) who flaunts a frownsmile?
How does the frownsmile make you feel? How does the frownsmiler herself/himself feel?
Find answers to these questiosns and more at frownsmile.wordpress.com.
6 Comments
October 6, 2007 at 11:13 pm
I am certain that I have a frownsmile with certain people. I imagine that it drives them nuts. Perhaps you even named your blog after me…is this a hint?
I know one person (no one you know…this is not a hing) who has a frownsmile. I find it a little condescending, as if she is feeling sorry for me but trying to boost my self esteem at the same time. And that’s what I imagine she really must be feeling. Or maybe she’s just tired of listening to me; it looks a little bit like that as well, kind of dismissive.
October 7, 2007 at 9:23 pm
NO! I have not noticed a frownsmile on you!! But frownsmiles can be good. I’m not totally anti-frownsmile, just very interested in the phenomenon.
But I also agree than they can look very dismissive– or like someone knows a little secret that they won’t tell.
I find myself using them when I am “amused,” which is a condescending thing to be, I think.
October 7, 2007 at 11:55 pm
Oh yes, I have a frownsmile. I don’t like it, it doesn’t make me happy. I realized I had it when I took a look in my mirror to see how others saw me when I gave them a smile at work. I saw that I wasn’t really smiling but frownsmiling. It was a pathetic look. No matter how hard I try I can’t look any other way when I smile at work. Maybe if my forehead wasn’t so wrinkled I would look better. Perhaps I need plastic surgery. I guess my work smile isn’t really saying, “HI!!!! I’m so happy to see you, HI!!!!!! I want to be your friend!!!!!!’” even though that is what I want to pretend to convey. When people at work see me frownsmile they give me a look that says “gee it can’t be THAT bad can it?” I must post anonymously lest this somehow gets to someonw I work with . . . but I think you know who I am.
October 8, 2007 at 12:57 am
I do not have a frown smile, alas. I’ve tried, and when I frown I look more like Jerri Blank of Strangers with Candy fame than a cute Cardinali. (and actually, now that I think about it, Amy Sedaris/Jerri Blank do indeed have a frownsmile, so there goes that theory).
October 8, 2007 at 4:53 pm
I request that you scan in the picture of ex-Bishop/Pittsburgh W. which is a prime example of NATURAL frown smile because he has no idea that he even has a frown smile. It is from the Catholic newspaper and is one of many I could have sent you of the frown smile.
October 8, 2007 at 5:30 pm
I’ll work on it. Keep the photos coming.