• ripcord@lemmy.world
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    17 hours 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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      17 hours 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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      16 hours ago

      “Misleading” does not need to be purposeful.

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