Be honest, /lit/. Do you performatively read?
I don't read at all.
>>25461758Your mom performs fellatio on me daily
>>25461768She's dead.
>sally rooneyi've seen a lot of lit chicks online shitting on this writer lol
>>25461758Only in front of women
No. But maybe I should. I'm not against it. Also my public habits changed since covid. I thought looking at your phone looked gross, which is why they even rarely made actors look at their phone too much in movies because they knew it didn't look great. Now it doesn't matter.If people are dancing around in public making tik tok videos for the internet, I can read in public.
>>25461758I do read at a public park a few times a week but my main motivation for doing it is because it's just a nice environment and I can get a solid undistracted 2 hours of reading. I have had a few girls talk to me and I notice others looking at me which is nice but it's not why I'm there.If anything the whole "performative reading" trend has prevented me from reading certain things in certain places. I go to a coffee shop nearby pretty often and I thought about bringing a book to read it at the outdoor seating, but I realized I was reading a Lispector book and it was just going to look like I was on some performative shit. I don't like that this effects me but it does
>>25461758It's the only way to read really, so no (because I don't read)
>>25461758REMINDERTHESE ARE ANTI-READING ANTI-/lit/ AND THEREFORE OFF TOPICREPORT THEM EVERY TIME, PLEASE.
>>25461758reading is cringe
>>25461758No, I actively hide the cover and spine of whatever book I'm reading when I read in the park or on the train or in a cafe. That could be because I have mental health issues though
>>25461758>go to hipster cafe>performatively read>it's just me and two girls sitting at a table close to me>both cute>they are loudly discussing how one of them is struggling with dating>her friend tells her she should put herself out there and try to talk to guys too>tells her "if there was a hot guy in this cafe right now, what would you do?">silence, they whisper to each other before changing the conversation>I glance over, don't make a move, maybe she meant there was no hot guy here>after a while they leaveI'm 6'2ft. Did I fuck up? This happened like a year ago.
>>25461844>This happened like a year ago.Stop thinking about it and move on.
>>25461758no, but it can't be any worse of a public activity than being a tiktok/instagram z-celeb or a nigger
>>25461847I don't think about it every day, you braindead mongoloid. The thread is about reading in public to get pussy, and I shared my experience.Would you have talked to them? If so, what would you have said? What if one replied "Ew, not you!"Unless a woman looks me in the eyes and smiles at me, I won't bother approaching her. Most girls are not "good" at flirting anyways. If they like you, they will show it so much that no doubt can be possible, skipping the whole ambiguity/tension game. The cutest thing is they think they're still being subtle.
>>25461865>Most girls are not "good" at flirting anyways.women don't flirt by flirtingthey flirt by trying to signal they're open to being flirted withremember this
>>25461868I don't need to remember anything. It's not rocket science.Would you have talked to them? If they wanted me to talk to them, they should have had the courtesy to look over at me. We were half a table apart.If this is a "missable layup" for performative reading, then performative reading is pointless.
>>25461769That's just what they told you so you'd stop bothering her
I don't read books performatively. I do read 4chan performatively, though.
>>25461787Usually I just expose myself
>>25461758reading is performative by default. but yes, i do.
>>25461758I read books. I'm not sure what it means to do it "performatively"
>>25462245something proceeding out of women's warped psychology. They can't comparand someone doing something for themselves, or for its own sake. Instead, if they see someone doing anything, they believe that person must either be making a declaration about themself, or making some sort of appeal to them, the viewer.
>>25462275Oh. I'm not a woman, so I won't concern myself with this.
