• ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    years ago, i came across the phrase “resting bitch face” online somewhere. i don’t know in what context i read it or where, but i do remember being utterly confused by the concept. like, what even is that phrase supposed to mean?!

    and that consternation had only deepened and strengthened right up to the recent past when photos of jd vance began to surface. now it’s 100% clear what the author of that long-forgotten post must have meant when they typed out those three little words.

    • taladar@sh.itjust.works
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      5 months ago

      That is not really what that phrase means though. That phrase refers to people whose neutral facial expression makes them look like someone unfriendly when the person behind it is not. In Vance’s case this is not true, his inside is just as ugly as his outside.

      • ripcord@lemmy.world
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        5 months ago

        No, the phrase doesn’t have anything to do with being misleading or not. It just means they look like a shitty, bitchy person on the outside. It may or may not be accurate. It definitely sometimes is not.

        • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          5 months ago

          “Misleading” does not need to be purposeful.

          What you just described is like the textbook definition of “unintentionally misleading.”

          • Laurel Raven@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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            5 months ago

            They didn’t say it was purposeful or not, just that it isn’t always misleading… Sometimes someone can have RBF and actually be exactly like they look