Is reading Lolita in public a "statement"?

Is reading Lolita in public a "statement"?

>implying men can get away with reading lolita in public anymore

No its someone reading a book?

Reading in public is general is a statement that goes:
>look at me I'm more intelligent than you and a total fucking pretentious dickweed please pay attention to me

Or maybe that's just how I feel.

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Yes, the statement is
>I am a tool

I doubt the average public transit user is literate enough to even recognize Lolita, or any other book.

What's the trick to seducing a reading girl without interrupting her reading?

I feel like this too, the only time I read on public is when going on the bus for 2+ hours

rub your penis on her shoulder

to be honest with how socially detached I am I don't know if it's people like this poster who are paranoid or it's me who's socially unaware.

that poster is paranoid and projecting. Only homeless and drunk people think like that.

I saw a white cis gendered male read the stranger on the E train one day. It was cringey as fuck. And he was holding the book vertically, so that people can read the title.

the former

lol why not, someone going to call the cops on me?

probably not quoting the first sentences of OP's book pic

>listening to music while reading
>in the fucking subway

>people talking loudly
>crying babies
>people coughing and sneezing
>people eating their food
yeah good luck reading without headphones/earbuds

Pretty much this. I made a The Outsiders reference at work and the person I was talking to asked me
>What are the outsiders, user?

seems u are spooked my friend

It's to discourage men from talking to her.

women wear headphones so people leave them alone

>women

lolita is a feminist book

this

although I don't perceive it that way when the person is using an e-reader, it just kind of blends in with modern life

>listening to music
How presumptuous. Perhaps she could be listening to simple white noise so as to drown out the subhuman shrieks of nigger children and other disenfranchised, loud, ugly company that offensively inhabits public infrastructure.

maybe because the outsiders is literary trash meant for middle school kids

I can never read in public, not because it's "embarrassing," I just can't read when people are talking, only in complete silence.

That's ear pro dude

dude big words your smart

What a disgusting cynical little fuckwit you are.

Only is so far as it's attempting to signal to others that you read only from a selection of books approved by high school English teachers. If the statement you mean is "hurr pedophilia is intellectual" then no. It's a famous book and most non-retards know it doesn't actually promote pedophilia at all, so it doesn't really send that message.

OP's pic is a NYC subway. It's a wide practice in NYC/the metro area because of how long commutes take. I read on the train into NYC all the time because there's fuck all else to do and it was only pointed out once by a conductor taking my ticket because it was a book and not an e-reader.

The only time I feel a little self conscious/aware of my actions is when it's a weirder book. For instance, Lolita wouldn't be a problem but when I was reading The Aesthetics of Murder I was making sure the cover was as hidden as possible.

Yeah the statement is "Im smart and fancy."

Those who think in this way are quite limited and I am surprised that they are in the lit section. With this statement you understand that the society in which you are immersed is more ignorant than you and read a book in front of them is going to emphasize that point, I only ask you to stop being a scary little whore that only looks around in search of approval

>listening to music while reading

That was me. I hold the book vertically to assist my posture

it's probably to block the noise you fucking dummy ever been on a train? oh right live in trumpville in pennsatucky where you have to drive 20 minutes to get to their nearest walmart kys

You actually shop at Wal-Mart, dude? Is that where you bought your Berniebro merchandise, or just your copy of What Happened?

well now that walmart bought bonobos i've considered it but not really no

I had no issues reading Lolita in public until I brought it into the bakery for lunch one day, forgetting that there was an elementary school next door that let out for lunch at the same time. Got some weird looks that day. Shit, I'm probably on a registry somewhere now.

fuck off, coinfag

paranoid af

Why the fuck would it say that? I spend most of my fucking time on public transport getting from work to home so I can take care of my ass, so why the fuck should you care that I like to use that time to read?

just read on your phone dummy then u don't look like a showoff and u can have more books

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What if someone just likes reading?
So they want to read

I have no problem listening to classical while reading but thats just me

cunt what
what else are you going to do? sit there worrying about what other people think of you?

yeah that she mentally retarded

>"Stay Golden Pony Boy"
>I made a The Outsiders reference at work

>I quoted a middle school book at work and people didn't get it
>I'm so smart

Yikes.

But books don't require a battery.

Holy shit, this is literally my gf's double.

I feel the same way

What do you mean? That its just an idea,a perception?

Listening to rap whilst reading Brothers Karamakov :)

is there a problem user?

attention whoring as usual.

>oh no a woman!
>guess its time to pretend to be a different person and lie to please her
think carefully about this type of meme posting user, you people don’t realize what signs you associate yourselves with and its always amusing the unintended symbolism that’s formed because of this

this post makes me want to stop reading on my phone and buy books just so i can aggravate over socialised spergs

>reading in public

This, real Chads play videogames in public

Is there ever a time or a context within which someone doing something you don't like isnt pretentious or attention whoring?

this, everybodys triggered because they hate themselves for doing it

BING BING, WAHOO, *1-UP*

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Wow this board Id fucking reddit Bring so insecure lmao fking kys

You realize some people have jobs and commutes and lunch breaks and time-away-from-the-kids where they need to read in the liminal spaces between the other demands of their lives? And that not everyone is a mommy suckling neet like urself?

honestly while I carry a book with me on my commute most of the time I don't read it because I can't get invested because I feel like everyone is judging me

Your mind is a gulag.

There is nothing wrong with reading in public, if anyone judges you for it that is their weakness. Don’t capitulate to resentful fascist cunts.

>unironically reading nabokov

Real men play Candy Crush Saga in public

>cis gendered male
You mean a man, yes? Remember when genders used to be simple. I guess you wouldn't that to be the case, you mentally ill fuck.

real men stare people in the eye in public, studying their every move and making up stories of where they are going and what they are like a person

How much are you reading every day that that becomes an issue? If you're talking on your phone all day at work, surely there's some way to charge it there. Cars, planes, buses all have outlets or usb ports these days. I don't see many subway trains that do but even if your commute is two or three hours, that shouldn't be enough to drain it.

You're allowed to say that you just like books better and not need a real reason.

This world would be a better place without people like you

Well I dont have a cellphone and I can only listen to music so much. So I read. Not trying to be smarter than anyone.

Look at me I'm Mr use big words big baller on campus

People read on the subway and train all the time, pretty long commute sitting with no talking, sensible to read.

I just read The Enchanter, nobody is the wiser.

It is a statement that you are a pedophile.

eman muxu

ojala

trial message

let me guess, you're an american

to think reading in public is anything out of the ordinary you'd have to come from the trash heap of the planet

Obsessed

insecure fuck

kek so true

no but those cans are

why red????

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edgy

Epic meme.

>Philips
Fucking plebs

which rap?
both of them?

lol i just bought my boyfriend a Lolita shirt for his birthday and he's been wearing it out

One time was at an airport with nothing left to read. Was the only literature in the airport bookstore so I bought a copy and read it in the airports during that trip. No one said anything.

was it autism?????

Read a physically larger book than her.

>Not blasting white/harsh noise to tune out ambient conversations.
Pleb

No, reading Tampa in public is.