Rather a narrow focus to today’s ‘special’ (you have noticed that Sunday’s posts are always specials, right? Course you have). Anyway, this is just to celebrate my discovery of a lovely young lady fashion model called Olivia Vinten. Unlike many other models, Ms Vinten does not seem to believe in smiling for the camera, preferring instead a pursed-lips look that to my mind expresses contempt, outrage or even barely repressed fury. All of these are delightful emotions for females to hold – entirely understandably when confronted by the exasperating and incompetent lesser sex – so she is today’s celebrated goddess and will feature again in future. She looks so cross… and regular ‘readers’ will know I have a soft and tender spot for women looking cross.
Don’t get me wrong – I don’t object to women smiling. For one thing, I’m not allowed to express negative opinions about anything a female does, for another there is certainly a place for a mocking or patronising smile in our little world. But it’s so refershing to see a beautiful young model expressing her real feelings, that today is a smile-free post.
I haven’t cherry-picked the images by the way. Just try typing ‘Olivia Vinten’ in your favourite anonymised search engine and you might see at most one or two half-smiles, amid a display of fabulous feminine frowniness.
Thank you for introducing me to the divine Olivia V – I fully understand, and share, your feelings about her. And I fully understand and perfectly share your reaction to images of beautiful women looking stern and disapproving and also to their smiling, and the interpretations you put on those expressions. I suppose maybe this gets wired into people like us early on in our lives somehow – some association between us feeling attracted to someone and excited by them and them instead being disapproving and mocking and showing that through their facial expressions and general demeanour. I guess that, in a sort of Pavlovian way, the direction of causation then gets reversed, such that we come to find those expressions automatically stimulate excitement in us even without any such intention on the part of the expresser (if there’s any such word).
Thanks tom. Feeble minds think alike.
It does strike me as a deligthfully delicate disdain, so unlike the full-teethed sneer adopted by some femdom models. Perhaps she has a contemptuous relationship with her photographer, who I imagine having to pay her for the privilege.
Of course a mocking smile can be lovely too. Or even a giggle or full-throated laugh when appropriate – many of my dates have ended in just that way.
Best wishes
S