Why Women Smile Summary
Why Women Smile: Forced Smiles
In the essay, “Why Women Smile” by Amy Cunningham, she brilliantly argues the fact that women have been heavily influenced by society in the way that they show their emotions. Amy analyzes the fact that women in today's society aren't still being treated equally but are still letting society control how women should act. She refers not only to her personal experiences with smiling but gives historical take on it, and gives a psychologist perspective. Her assertion action being that, women smile too often and for the wrong reasons.
As a human our first instinct is to smile when something pleases us but that is not the case when it comes to women’s smile as Amy Cunningham states. Amy Cunningham gives her own personal experience with smiling. She explains that after smiling brilliantly for 40 …show more content…
Smiling has always been seen as a happy expression, used when someone laughs or hears good news, compared to a negative expression. Smiling is seen as the stereotypical expression of happiness. In the essay Cunningham explains that by the middle of the nineteen century women and African Americans were treated horrendously that they need to smile to show others that they weren't dangerous. Slaves had to smile to the monster that forced them to be a slave just to try to keep from getting tortured. Smiling has played a tremendous role in the horrible part of our nations history. The author also uses a baby's smile to try and argue its point. Babies make use of the smile, as by giving a certain emotion that someone close to them enjoys, they hope to get a similar emotion back. Cunningham uses logic to compare a pure babies smile to one of a woman. The author uses the aspect of how a baby smiles to show that there are many different kinds of smiles. Some smiles are good and pure, while others may simply be a masked
In the essay, “Why Women Smile” by Amy Cunningham, she brilliantly argues the fact that women have been heavily influenced by society in the way that they show their emotions. Amy analyzes the fact that women in today's society aren't still being treated equally but are still letting society control how women should act. She refers not only to her personal experiences with smiling but gives historical take on it, and gives a psychologist perspective. Her assertion action being that, women smile too often and for the wrong reasons.
As a human our first instinct is to smile when something pleases us but that is not the case when it comes to women’s smile as Amy Cunningham states. Amy Cunningham gives her own personal experience with smiling. She explains that after smiling brilliantly for 40 …show more content…
Smiling has always been seen as a happy expression, used when someone laughs or hears good news, compared to a negative expression. Smiling is seen as the stereotypical expression of happiness. In the essay Cunningham explains that by the middle of the nineteen century women and African Americans were treated horrendously that they need to smile to show others that they weren't dangerous. Slaves had to smile to the monster that forced them to be a slave just to try to keep from getting tortured. Smiling has played a tremendous role in the horrible part of our nations history. The author also uses a baby's smile to try and argue its point. Babies make use of the smile, as by giving a certain emotion that someone close to them enjoys, they hope to get a similar emotion back. Cunningham uses logic to compare a pure babies smile to one of a woman. The author uses the aspect of how a baby smiles to show that there are many different kinds of smiles. Some smiles are good and pure, while others may simply be a masked