The Pretentious Girl

The pretentious girl is that girl who typically tries her best to fit in to the conversation and/or the people around her.

She's kind of a chameleon, but instead of following people's decisions, the pretentious girl is defined more by her characteristic ability to go along with almost any topic of conversation.

Aspiring pretentious girls, however, have trouble getting into conversations due to the noticeable lack in their basic knowledge arsenal and resort to the unbelievably useful skill of pretending-to-know-what-you're-talking-about :D

While this skill is one widely used by many, and when executed properly allows the user to assimilate herself easily into the group, other people who actually know about the topic can easily spot a pretentious girl.

Common cues to look out for are an absolute lack of definitive terms or subjects, with a lot of fillers and uh, like, you know, like, you know? Yeah, like, that. Yeah. This skill relies heavily on the other person to fill in their content for them.

Wouldn't this be really obvious? Yes, it is. However, most skillful pretentious girls manage to camouflage this by acting as if they can't really remember what they want to say and suddenly remember with an 'EUREKA!' expression when you 'remind' them ^_^

That's another visual cue for the pretentious girl; an arsenal full of big reactions and expressions. I guess its more often characterized as 'trying too hard', overreacting to things like, OMG~ REALLY? LOL? XD at something rather miniscule.

The most pitiful thing about pretentious girls is that they often convince absolutely nobody.. other than themselves, appearing to look really desperate and.. stupid, for the lack of a more.. neutral term T_T sorry

Pretentious girls are often shunned in society for exactly that, being pretentious. Nobody likes a fake, right? But for every pretentious girls that are ostracized by society, there are at least two more who manage to slip under the collective judgmental eye.

I'm not trying to weed them out or say that pretentious girls are bad, though. They're actually very misunderstood and above everything else, very pitiful indeed :( Its important to understand that the goal of a pretentious girl is solely to fit in and be part of the group and ride whatever wave that's happening ^o^

Unlike other psychographics or archetypes out there, pretentious girls have a very simple flaw that is easily overcome by being with friends that accept her for who she is, and that its okay to not know anything about the conversation but still join in.. as a listener ^o^ Then the next time, she'll be able to join in on it~

Tell a pretentious girl that you realize that she's pretending and she might react from being really embarrassed to in total denial, then you soothe her with the fact that its okay, there's no need to pretend ^_^ and then she says really? ;o; and is touched by the fact that someone accepts her for the airhead she is and... yay *o* friends forever~

But I wouldn't do that >< if I did, pretentious girls will become an endangered species and.. we need to preserve the variety of social archetypes in our societal fauna, right? *o* (a post debating variety vs standardization should come soon.. reminder to self reminder to self -w-) 

I'm beginning to sound like an old record, but really, the most important thing about human relationships is the act of understanding where the other party is coming from and then see things from their perspective ^o^ Solves a lot of problems... though not everything. Maybe next week I should try to cover one that can't be solved even if you understand where they're coming from.. :O