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In early August, TikTokker Jools Lebron offered viral advice about dressing for work. She pointed out that her clothes at work were demure and she remained mindful of why she was hired. There might be a slight, deliberate contrast between her glamorous looks and her “very demure, very mindful” advice, but that’s the point. She’s a bit tongue-in-cheek, especially in subsequent videos and she has sparked the “very demure, very mindful” meme.
I was curious if there were many very demure, very mindful people in Second Life posting to Flickr. And yes, there are!
Pengu Blep seems to have taken a riff off Jools being “very demure, very mindful” at a bar where she left her ID. I think they have captured the idea well, demurely, mindfully drinking and even one demure and mindful woman sitting on the bar. What more could you ask for?
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Mr. Royal gets it. He’s very demure, very mindful, but also very respectful and very cutesy. He understands what Jools is doing and he’s helping to subvert those expectations. I like this picture a lot. His pose is natural and there’s something about his eyes looking upward that conveys his exhaustion perfectly. It’s tiring being this demure.
Valeria quotes her exactly, “You see how I show up, very demure, very mindful." She doesn’t have her chi-chis out either. Not really. Isn’t that the point? To subvert the rules that define women’s possibilities?
There are more very demure, very mindful pictures, so I made a very demure, very mindful gallery above. I think it says something about Second Life residents and how they surf the zeitgeist that there are more Second Life photos with “very demure, very mindful” in the description that there are real life pictures, though I was delighted to see a demure and mindful sand wasp.
When I first heard there was a “very demure, very mindful” meme, I felt hostile. It didn’t seem like a coincidence that there was someone advising women to be “very demure, very mindful” just a week before the first Black woman would be the official nominee for President. But maybe it’s not a coincidence, maybe it’s synchronicity. Jools’ subversive advice is a mirror of how Harris laughs off distractions and ridiculous assertions about when she became Black, for example. If you see Jools' videos, she is doing anything but advising women to step back and stand down. She is a delight and has the true ethos of an organizer, “Being demure is thanking the people who have come before you while you pave the path for the people who will come after you.”
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Cajsa’s Choices is devoted to unique, artistic, and innovative virtual world-based images and screenshots that showcase the medium as an art form and Second Life as a creative platform. (Generally not images that fit on this Bingo card.)
Cajsa Lilliehook is a seventeen year resident of Second Life, where she owned a photo studio, spent several years as a DJ at The Velvet, and for her first SL job, cleaned up prim trash. She co-founded and runs the It’s Only Fashion blog with her best friend Gidge Uriza. She also has a book review blog, Tonstant Weader Reviews and a cooking blog, Single Serving Recipes. She spends a lot of time researching and reporting on Republican sexual predators. In her first life, she is a retired grassroots leader who has worked for economic and social justice issues most of her life. She is also the minion of a cat named Nora.
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