>It is now "performative" to read at coffee shops and other public spaces
How are you contending with the recent social backlash towards reading in public?
What is to be done more broadly about this budding stigma towards the /lit/erati?

>>24573180 (OP)
I don't care and don't interact with people that do

>>24573180 (OP)
I look and act like this.

>>24573224
I'm sure everyone you meet can tell you don't interact with women, you don't need to pretend it's by choice.

>>24573180 (OP)
Isn't this just describing some girl's ex? How is he some sort of Jungian archetype that exists in the psychosphere of early to late 20s lib women?

>>24573243
Because it describes many women's exes. An archetype is definitionally Recurrent.

>>24573232
Why would I want to unless I'm looking to have sex?

>>24573305
if you're asking that sincerely, it cannot be explained to you. but at least it means you're unlikely to procreate.
Godspeed, Anon.

LAJEWBU

>>24573180 (OP)
why would you read in public? i can't imagine anything more annoying than being constantly distracted by all the other people around me

leave her alone you sick bastard

>>24573384
CLAIRO CREW ASSEMBLE

>>24573180 (OP)
>What is to be done
Read mein kampf, turner diaries, evola, etc. So they don't out you in picrel category

>>24573180 (OP)
>catcher in the rye
?

>performative
We all are performing to some extent. For example you aren’t 100% honest about every single facet of your life or thoughts to even your closest family or friends. There’s nothing wrong with being open with things you like, with the knowledge that expressing those things will attract certain kinds of people. Life is too short to care about being judged by others for doing the same shit they do

>>24573338
Hahaha look at that butt crack. Someone put some pants on that! Hideous.

>>24573180 (OP)
He rapes his sister, Phoebe.

I've thought it was imperative my entire life
It seems really homosexual, like you've got a good book, you're in a public place, and you've got your hand wrapped around a nice hot cup of coffee
Oh isn't that so delightfully faggotical, to sit in public and partake in such a wonderful tradition of public reading!

>>24575283
>delightfully faggotical
You mean delightfully faggotizing. Or scrum-p-diddily faggontological.

I remember reading a book in a cafe by myself and some acquaintances of mine saw me and claimed I was giving off "main character energy".

The normalnigger Lebenswelt appalls me.

>>24573180 (OP)
Why would you read in public? It's a solitary activity you're supposed to be interacting and socializing in public.

if you're chad you can read women will adore you for it, if you're loser reading in public... well. don't forget that "women break rules for winners and make rules for losers."

femoids are vain creatures
never met a single man in europe ever reading hooks or david btw lol

>>24573180 (OP)
I just don't get why townies would even look down upon reading

>>24573315
Well i guess your mom will have to do instead

>>24575322
They don't even do that here in America

>>24573180 (OP)
If you are not doing it performatively then you aren't going to care much about this backlash.
Reading in public is never preferable to reading quietly at home. Every time I've done it it's because I have a few hours to kill waiting for the train or what have you, and I definitely do not feel deterred from it now.

>>24575304
your acquaintances are fucking retarded

>>24575310
Different guy, but I go stir crazy being isolated at home so much, so reading outside is necessary at times. Usually I'd pick a library, though. Can't be in four walls 24/7.

>>24575304
Name me one (1) main character that is depicted reading a book in a cafe by themself.

>>24575325
There's a bit on Firing line with Tom Wolfe where they talk about some bank clerk on the subway reading Proust or something, how it's an attempt to say "I am above this." . It's not just a vibe you're hitting townies with.

It's very different than say, playing vidya, where you're saying "I'm not a part of all this".

>>24573370
>why would you read in public? i can't imagine anything more annoying than being constantly distracted by all the other people around me
>
I always read a book for the bus/trolley ride into the city, back when I worked there.

>>24575494
>my attention span is so fried i can't survive a bus ride without distracting myself
now why would you admit that

>>24573180 (OP)
>read at coffee shops and other public spaces
/lit/ always made fun of those types and labeled them as pseuds

>>24573180 (OP)
>>24575588
What if I read pic rel in public tho

>>24573180 (OP)
It's kind of hilarious to see Didion (deeply classist and conservative) sandwiched between Angela Davis and Bell Hooks.

On this image, I shop at Trader Joes and like Didion, and wear loafers on occasion (albeit without tassels). None of the others apply though.

>>24575696
Yeah, loafers are okay
Tassel loafers are pretty cringe doe

>>24573180 (OP)
>How are you contending with the recent social backlash towards reading in public?
No such thing.

>>24573231
Certified bottom.

>>24573180 (OP)
I don't recognize any of these albums. I think something like Brat or Bowie would be more fitting

>>24573180 (OP)
whats wrong with labubu doll?

>>24573180 (OP)
I have that kind of hair style and like tote bags but I'm actually a sexist, racist, and overall bigotted person and don't care for other peoples' opinions, let alone women's.

>>24575310
This. I can't stand reading outside. I'm too busy people watching or complaining about immigrants.

>>24573180 (OP)
one thing about the stupidification of society:
right now you're considered a pretentious genius for reading jd salinger and bell hooks.
imagine how bad it's going to be in 20 years.
you're going to be a savant if you've read and understood shakespeare, samuel johnson, milton, dante... you'll be a modern oracle, rattling off knowledge from lost civilizations,.

>>24573180 (OP)
Couldn't be me. I don't read books written by women and I am completely norwooded.

>>24576021
I genuinely get treated like some autistic super genius at work because I read as a hobby. In every other regard I'm just your average working class white person. I just enjoy literature, which for them means I'm bascially the smartest person in the office (which I might be but the bar is quite low).

>>24573180 (OP)
>women like it when you're interested in their interests so you should do that
>HOW DARE YOU EXPRESS INTEREST IN OUR INTERESTS THAT'S FOR US

>>24576021
>>24576042
The other day my coworkers couldn't believe I knew how to write in cursive. I wish I was making this up. I felt really uncomfortable. Writing is somehow considered crazy to them.

>>24573384
she doesn't deserve this

>>24575860
>if I just ignore the conversations that most normal people my age are having, I can pretend they don't exist
OK.

>>24573315
kys

god I hate Americans

>>24576561
We know.

>>24576042
I used to work in a supermarket. My dad asked me how come I used to get promotions and raises left and right but they’re pretty scarce now in my current job. I explained to him I am competing against high achieving people with advanced degrees now and I used to be competing against retards and ex cons.

>>24573180 (OP)
I don't care about any of this stuff except the music, haven't been on /mu/ in a decade.
Someone kindly spoonfeed me the music that is listed here.

>see yet another "I fucking hate men who are like this!" thing by women
>it's another insanely faggoty combination of gay things I've never heard of

>>24576561
It's only natural.

t. American