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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Nice try sock puppet. Obsessive compulsive disorder for a start. [/quote]

I'm the PP who posted the long post and no, this wasn't a sock puppet. Your response was weird -- that woman was obviously strange and I don't think I need therapy for noticing clearly odd behavior.

Also I wasn't the only one who noticed her weird behavior. Eventually lots of people did. The downside of being a fake is that people inevitably figure you out.[/quote]

You did write a lot about her, which gives the impression that you're over-invested at minimum, OCD at worst.[/quote]

I love that on DCUM, writing "a lot" means four paragraphs. This town is full of lawyers! I could write four paragraphs on thumb tacks, despite never having spent more than a few second thinking about them and not having used one in at least a decade. I am not over-invested in thumbtacks, nor do I have OCD. I'm just verbose and work my thoughts out by writing.[/quote]

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