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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't use the word poseur ever really, but when I hear it I think of a woman I knew for a time about a decade ago. I worked with her and she was part of a social scene I was in, so we overlapped a lot and I observed her in multiple settings.

She would adjust her politics and beliefs for the group she was around, flipping from cynical centrism to far left progressivism at the drop of a hat. It was so dramatic that when I first met her, I thought maybe she was two people I was confusing with one another.

She purchased and planned outfits like she was dressing a Barbie. At work she was corporate Barbie. Socially she was chill, boho Barbie. If she vacationed in France, she was beret-and-stripes French Barbie. If she went on a safari... well you get the idea. I think a lot of her clothes were worn once or twice only, as "outfits" to match the event, and then discarded. So weird.

She was a compulsive liar and would lie most frequently to claim some special connection to a person or situation. Like this week she probably claimed she had a sibling or cousin who is an astronomer and gave her special insight into the eclipse (she seemed to have a lot of siblings and relatives with special access and knowledge, but I think she was just reading Wikipedia entries and assigning the info to a special "expert" she happened to know). If you were watching the Super Bowl, she apparently knew several people who were there. If you mentioned a restaurant, she claimed to know the owners. If you were reading a book, she knew someone at the publisher. She was a regular UMC woman from the midwest who went to an above average SLAC (not an Ivy, not a tippy top school). There was no way all of this true, maybe some of it was. I think she just felt claiming special knowledge and connections boosted her social caché? It was really weird.

Poseur.[/quote]

you need therapy[/quote]

NP. That PP needs therapy for having eyes? No.[/quote]

Agree.

I know a similar woman.  She's from Venezuela, not the Midwest, but very very similar behaviors.  Oh, she also takes other people's experiences and stories and tell them as her own, like it happened to her. So strange.[/quote]

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