Behaviors and artifact displays that reassure observers that despite acting weird in public you won’t violate the order of civil inattention
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People who get really good at being publicly weird develop abnormal but “hypernormal” normality-reassurance displays
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Anyone have examples of this? It seems true right but hard to get specific
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I have a habit of reflexively looking for something funny to RT after tweeting something vulnerable or emotional, does that count?
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i can only confirm that singing and dancing to the music playing in the grocery store results in looks of “oh look a crazy person”
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When I was in Korea I was performatively Catholic? Christianity is the majority religion and I was working at a parochial school. It was mostly just expedient but it did open up some unexpected avenues of research.
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A: Speaks in/with too much detail/intimacy/rapidity/lack of annunciation GroupB: Inception stare A: Quick, self-effacing joke about either general topic that was disrupted or own supposedly abrupt behavior, or broach joke-alternative topic [is this a self-referential example?]
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