AEE 1524: Why You Should Not Tell a Woman to Smile

All Ears English Podcast

Lindsay McMahon

Education, Language Learning, Business

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2021

⏱️ 20 minutes

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0:00.0	This is an All-Ears English Podcast episode 1524, why you should not tell a woman to smile.
0:08.3	Welcome to the All-Ears English Podcast, downloaded more than 200 million times. Are you feeling
0:15.9	stuck with your English? We'll show you how to become fearless and fluent by focusing on
0:22.8	connection, not perfection. With your American hosts, Lindsey McMahon, the English
0:29.4	adventurer, and Michelle Kaplan, the New York Radio Girl, coming to you from Colorado and New
0:36.3	York City, USA. If you are a woman, have you ever been told to smile in American culture,
0:46.9	for many women, this can be offensive. In this episode, you'll find out why.
1:16.9	Fly big. Neugierig? Then we'll be right now on Lufthansagroup.carriers.
1:47.6	In life. I think as a woman, I am probably expected to smile more than men are. I'm just going
1:58.4	to say that. That is my opinion, but definitively yes. We talked about this recently. If we think women
2:08.8	are expected to smile more, and we thought it would be a good topic. We definitely want to dive
2:12.8	into this today. We're going to talk about the pressure to smile, how it's evolved over time.
2:20.0	It's very interesting. We're going to give you some links to an article in a survey so that you
2:24.9	can read more into this because it's a fascinating topic. Oh, so good. So good. Okay, guys, but before
2:30.4	we get into all this awesomeness here, I want you to go and get your fluency score. We now
2:36.8	have a quiz available for you for free. It's a two minute quiz. Seven questions. Go to our website
2:42.7	all earsenglish.com and find where it says free English quiz right there at the top and click that
2:50.0	button. Take your quiz. Get your fluency score and get resources for your level. Okay, awesome.
2:56.4	Okay, so Lindsay, I read an article and it talked about a survey. So I wanted to share something
3:02.3	from this survey. So this survey is from biteme.com. B-Y-T-E-M-E. Okay.
3:11.6	So it's called women's experiences with being told to smile. So that's what the survey is called.
3:17.6	And it looks like they're from over 500 women. So you guys can scroll through this. It's really
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