Cheer up love

[KittyGlitter]

Question for you men out there. Any ideas why men often say to women (myself included) "smile" or "cheer up" when in a pub or club situation? I stopped smiling for a split second on Saturday night and some guy quite aggressively told me to smile. I've not ever witnessed women telling strangers to smile.

[Otrere]

I haven't really read many of the other threads but I agree that the "Cheer up love it might never happen" is annoying.

I sat thinking that the morning after I had been to see my mum in hospital when she had died of cancer earlier that morning. I felt thoroughly numb and not the slightest bit like "cheering up" and the stupid thing is I remember thinking to myself "if anyone says that to me today, I'm gonna thump them, I really am".