Vice President JD Vance flew to Rome hoping to meet with Pope Francis. Instead, the Pope skipped the meeting entirely—and sent his top cardinal to deliver a pointed message about compassion and car…
That is not really what that phrase means though. That phrase refers to people whose neutral facial expression makes them look like someone unfriendly when the person behind it is not. In Vance’s case this is not true, his inside is just as ugly as his outside.
Yep the resting face is not a good judge of character, the active one is much more telling, and in Vance’s case it’s “self-righteousness without contentedness to back it up”. You can’t be discontent with yourself and at the same time think yourself to be the pinnacle of insight, at least not without a hefty dose of neurosis, that is.
No, the phrase doesn’t have anything to do with being misleading or not. It just means they look like a shitty, bitchy person on the outside. It may or may not be accurate. It definitely sometimes is not.
It specifically is about looking unapproachable, angry etc, when the person doesn’t feel any of those emotions (hence the “resting” part, like resting heart rate). It means someone who is having fun but looking differently too. Bitchiness or shittiness doesn’t factor in at all - the “bitch” in the name is a metaphor.
That is not really what that phrase means though. That phrase refers to people whose neutral facial expression makes them look like someone unfriendly when the person behind it is not. In Vance’s case this is not true, his inside is just as ugly as his outside.
Yep the resting face is not a good judge of character, the active one is much more telling, and in Vance’s case it’s “self-righteousness without contentedness to back it up”. You can’t be discontent with yourself and at the same time think yourself to be the pinnacle of insight, at least not without a hefty dose of neurosis, that is.
No, the phrase doesn’t have anything to do with being misleading or not. It just means they look like a shitty, bitchy person on the outside. It may or may not be accurate. It definitely sometimes is not.
It specifically is about looking unapproachable, angry etc, when the person doesn’t feel any of those emotions (hence the “resting” part, like resting heart rate). It means someone who is having fun but looking differently too. Bitchiness or shittiness doesn’t factor in at all - the “bitch” in the name is a metaphor.
“Misleading” does not need to be purposeful.
What you just described is like the textbook definition of “unintentionally misleading.”
They didn’t say it was purposeful or not, just that it isn’t always misleading… Sometimes someone can have RBF and actually be exactly like they look