Smile From the Devil: A Women’s Guide To Reading Dating Profiles

The secret weapons of avoiding bad dates: Critical Discourse Analysis and Thin-slicing

Jennie Young
Better Humans
Published in
8 min readJul 20, 2021

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Male in devil ears holding a lollipop
Image credit: LightFieldStudios.

In his profile picture, he is dressed as the devil.

The actual devil — not some funny, costume-y sort of devil. The photo is an extreme close-up, and in it, he is wearing plastic fangs…

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Professor and humor writer in Green Bay. McSweeney’s, The Independent, HuffPost, Ms. Mag, Education Week, Inside Higher Ed, Slackjaw, Weekly Humorist, others.