Scots comedian's partner being told to smile

I totally agree he wouldn’t say it to a man and therefore it’s sexist. I also find it irritating when it happens. I do think her calling him a ‘prick’ is a bit excessive tho. It was also a bit silly to tweet about sexism the same day she had made a ‘joke’ (which I suppose the security guard would say was all his comment was as well) about men not being allowed in shops at Christmas.

So it's ok for her to post sexist comments, earlier that same day, but then accuse someone else of being sexist?

Can't take anyone seriously when they show that level of hypocrisy.

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Often when u glare back at them and font smile uts followed up by a "fuck u then"

Dont tell me its innocent when its followed up by Male rejection anger like everything else

of course it's sexist. He most certainly wouldn't tell a passing grumpy-looking bloke to smile. it comes from a place of feeling entitled to benefit from women: that the point of a woman's existence is to be pretty and pleasant and make men feel better. very much sexist. she was right to complain and right to tweet about it.

linking it to suicide awareness is a separate issue and muddies the waters unnecessarily.

but every single tweeter telling her to get a grip and that it was reasonable to tell her to smile is themselves also a sexist arse. There is a lot more misogyny in the world than we would like to think.

It is sexist because it’s invariably men who say this to women. It’s also annoying - do they really think they can say “Smile!” and I’ll be like “Yay you fixed all the problems in my life, now I can be happy!” Fuck off, you have no idea what my situation is or why I’m not smiling at this precise second. Apart from anything else it’s impossible to smile constantly! Nobody goes around with a permanent smile.

Peope dont get it. Women are told to smile all the time. God blokes yell it out their van windows.

Sometimes it seems.like harderwork trying to go around the houses pretending you dont see the problem and deliveralty avoiding thinking about it, than it would to just admit yeah maybe she has a point.

She is completely correct on this.

I can imagine the men disagreeing with her are the ones who do this themselves and the women disagreeing enjoy the attention they get from men who do this (or would like to).