(1) the Strangeness of Being Strange - The Small Bow
The horror of awkwardness is partly the feeling of isolation, of feeling like we’re uniquely marked out and alienated by our social ineptitude. The promise of awkward comedy is that we’re not. We can read this either as benign reassurance, or a more malign type of schadenfreude.
Alexandra Plakias • Awkwardness: A Theory
So that’s my problem: the weird transformation of signal into action or sensation. The universe I occupy is a creature of my head. It is wholly unique to me. The process of intimacy is the process of becoming better at inviting others to have a look around. The sensation of loneliness is the crushing acknowledgement that however good you get at giv
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What strikes me about it is that even as I deplore the script itself, I recognize the fact that it’s allowing me to become someone the other person recognizes—I take on the role that’s offered to me rather than risk being marked out as an anomaly.