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further thoughts on "too dumb to know I'm dumb"
I've been wondering about the extension of the "too dumb to know I'm dumb" theory into other realms. For example, there's a David Sedaris piece that I picked up from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
tongodeon's Christmas Gift collection where he talks about this elf who's really into the whole elf thing and kinda attractive for it and the upshot is that when the elf's off-duty a whole bunch of guys turn up, all of whom thought they were getting the come-on from the elf. The elf says something about how this creeps him out. So I'm wondering is it possible that people who can't read body language, for example, are flinging out "I WANT YOU" vibes without being aware of it. Or to choose a more contentious example, simply because I've run into it more-or-less first hand, someone dressing provocatively1 yet not realising it because they can't or don't grasp the concept of provocative dress.
[1] this is a terrible choice of word because of what it implies, but at least I can be sure that you'll know exactly what I mean, since the terrible choice of word is also apparently the, well, word of choice.
tongodeon's Christmas Gift collection where he talks about this elf who's really into the whole elf thing and kinda attractive for it and the upshot is that when the elf's off-duty a whole bunch of guys turn up, all of whom thought they were getting the come-on from the elf. The elf says something about how this creeps him out. So I'm wondering is it possible that people who can't read body language, for example, are flinging out "I WANT YOU" vibes without being aware of it. Or to choose a more contentious example, simply because I've run into it more-or-less first hand, someone dressing provocatively1 yet not realising it because they can't or don't grasp the concept of provocative dress.[1] this is a terrible choice of word because of what it implies, but at least I can be sure that you'll know exactly what I mean, since the terrible choice of word is also apparently the, well, word of choice.