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Posted by vesperae http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjvdBOf1tBM over at Matt's DS Forum. What's most interesting to me about this clip is that it not only illustrates denial, but it also indirectly suggests something else, at least to me. When you stop and think about the presence of the camera and mini-documentary maker (I wonder what his relationship to the subject is?), you have to consider how the social context is influencing her responses. What is she really thinking while she is stammering her responses? As I've said before, I believe that young women especially tend to keep their honest thoughts about any given topic private. This means that more often than not, they end up either not answering, or giving whatever answer they think that the person asking the question wants to hear, if for no other reason than to keep their private thoughts private, while also deflecting any possible additional questions that they don't want to open up about. Just because there is public denial doesn't necessarily mean that that's the extent of her thinking about smoking internally.
on March 24, 2007, 8:45 pm, in reply to "Re: So much more fun to be the 'Villain' of the piece."
Onza posted the link to this YouTube clip:
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