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Like with boys, how they have it so easy. How you have to pretend that you don't notice them... noticing you.
— Angela Chase • My So-Called Life
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
The speaker resents how easy boys seem to have things, while girls must act as though they haven't registered being looked at. It's a wry complaint about the small performance of indifference: noticing that someone notices you, yet hiding that you have.
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