Today, I point you to an article about “resting bitch face.” There are many reasons for this, including:
- Because the author provides excellent strategies lawyers can use to convert their (typical?) expressions of disdain into something a bit more, um, neutral.
- Because she points us to animal examples of said Resting Bitch Face. I can’t even.
- Because the term itself is so expressive and so much fun to say.
But that’s not all. I also recommend it because Marsha Hunter is a great writer and thinker. I’ve read her stuff and even seen her present in person, and she understands on a very deep level what makes someone a communicator and what makes someone the opposite. Hence RBF.
You can read her recent article here.
And here are a few words I wrote about Marsha and her partner in communications crime, Brian K. Johnson. (And here is a great article that Brian wrote for us in Arizona Attorney Magazine.)
Finally, I heartily recommend their more recent book, titled The Articulate Attorney: Public Speaking for Lawyers. You can find it online here. Here’s hoping the face you offer the world grows more placid and less aggravated.
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August 11, 2015 at 6:44 pm
I don’t suffer from RBF. I love every minute of it.