Talk:Cinder Fall/@comment-31570730-20190531012238/@comment-4010415-20190531174055

@Mega That's a really good analysis of how Salem has people work for her. Funny enough, Salem herself was already like that before she became Grimmified, too. She used mankind's desires to get them to ally with her to attack the gods. After becoming Grimmified and reuniting with Ozma, she used mankind's desire for safety from the Grimm to become one of their new gods.

@Alhazad While I agree that crushing someone's hand and stealing their stuff for telling you to smile is out of line, a man telling a woman to smile tends to have more meaning to it than what the words literally mean.

When a man sees a woman he's never met before and tells her to smile, it's most often a misogynistic move that carries the feeling that she's just a pretty thing for him to look at, rather than a person who has emotions and has her own things going on. This is especially since it's often phrased something like "You'd look prettier if you smiled." Thus, a man telling a woman he doesn't know to smile carries a negative connotation. As humans, our default state is not smiling, and we would greatly appreciate it if complete strangers didn't act like it's our job to look pretty for everyone.