The women glare at each other. Grin. You have friends when you're fifteen years old. Sometimes you get them back.

Fredrik Backman
The women glare at each other. Grin. You have friends...
The women glare at each other. Grin. You have friends...
The women glare at each other. Grin. You have friends...
The women glare at each other. Grin. You have friends...
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The women glare at each other. Grin. You have friends when you're fifteen years old. Sometimes you get them back.

is an often-repeated phrase that implies that there are few true friendships in the world. The implication is that people who have friends are strange or odd, strange or odd people are always alone, and so on. Just as this phrase uses "friends" instead of "true friendships," it also uses "grin" instead of "smile." It is not clear why this phrase says that "women" grin instead of "people." This phrasing may have originated with the saying, “You’ve got to laugh like a woman to keep your man” (itself a variation of an old German proverb).

That would make it sound like the women are laughing at themselves for not being able to maintain male-female relationships, which is insulting to women in particular, who suffer from a double burden of rejection due to both gender and sexual orientation.

Source: Beartown

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