What he may have thought was a light flirtation, or good-natured small talk, is actually an exhausting part of being a woman. I can count the number of times I’ve told a man to smile on zero hands, because I’ve never done it. I cannot count the number of times I’ve been told to smile, because math doesn’t go that high. And for every man (and there’s always one) who is like, “hey, this happens to men, too!” . . . hush. The women are talking now and I’m going to go out on a limb here and guess that you’re the kind of guy who is perplexed when you tell someone to “smile,” “relax,” or “calm down”
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