• ripcord@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    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.

    • Maalus@lemmy.world
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      6 days ago

      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.

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      6 days ago

      “Misleading” does not need to be intentional.

      What you just described is like the textbook definition of “unintentionally misleading.”

      • laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        5 days ago

        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