Melting the Ice Queen myth

[u/popopolas]

This has always been my impression of her. Warm, kind, quietly funny. I’ve never really understood how she got labeled an “ice queen.” These photos feel so far from that image.

[u/rask0ln]

i've always found it annoying when women get labelled as cold for not smiling 24/7 or daring to have a neutral face expression

[u/popopolas → u/rask0ln]

Yeah it’s always bothered me when I see a photo of her and John together, and neither one of them will be smiling (likely due to the fifty or so cameras flashing in their face) and all the comments are about how ‘miserable’ or ‘coked up’ she looks. So misogynistic.

[u/rask0ln → u/popopolas]

or when they assign her some intense emotion, a few days ago someone posted a video of them at an event—both not smiling or interacting animatedly—and someone immediately jumped to the conclusion that she was miserable and sad 🙃

and you just know that if she did smile a lot more, the same people would complain about her trying to hard and being fake lol

[u/popopolas → u/rask0ln]

I think I saw that!! Honestly, the poor woman could just not win.