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Just a bit of a companion to the "gape mouth" thread. It has entered the general consciousness that the "soy face," or gape-mouthed smile with dead eyes, is unacceptable in society. However, the most frequent perpetrators of that face, as usual, failed to understand what was wrong with it as they failed to understand so much of what it means to be human.
The false lesson they gleaned was, "when you make a big fake smile, keep your teeth closer together, and no one will see how empty you are inside."
I am not the first to notice this phony smirk spreading to replace the soyface, and it doesn't, to my knowledge, have a cute name yet. It should be noted, however.
Perhaps identifying it will be good practice in understanding facial expressions for the people who think any baring of teeth or tongue makes a soyface. The more neurotypical of our forum denizens should, however, easily pick up on what I'm on about.
It's the painfully forced rictus of the emasculated male.
Here, have a few examples.
Before anyone tells me "these are just smiles," look for what I look for.
1) A lack of tension around the eyes (the hallmark of a natural smile.) The face is slack except for the cheeks.
2) The cheeks are very tense. They're pulling back the corners of their mouths as hard as they gawsh darn can.
3) Usually staring directly into the camera; these are intentionally manufactured faces, created by people who REALLY want to show that they are _just_so_happy_
The false lesson they gleaned was, "when you make a big fake smile, keep your teeth closer together, and no one will see how empty you are inside."
I am not the first to notice this phony smirk spreading to replace the soyface, and it doesn't, to my knowledge, have a cute name yet. It should be noted, however.
Perhaps identifying it will be good practice in understanding facial expressions for the people who think any baring of teeth or tongue makes a soyface. The more neurotypical of our forum denizens should, however, easily pick up on what I'm on about.
It's the painfully forced rictus of the emasculated male.
Here, have a few examples.
Before anyone tells me "these are just smiles," look for what I look for.
1) A lack of tension around the eyes (the hallmark of a natural smile.) The face is slack except for the cheeks.
2) The cheeks are very tense. They're pulling back the corners of their mouths as hard as they gawsh darn can.
3) Usually staring directly into the camera; these are intentionally manufactured faces, created by people who REALLY want to show that they are _just_so_happy_
