Putting On Airs
Here in the South that's the name for "A different behavior depending on your audience"
So, today, I come here with something that is really bothering me.
Here in the South, we say someone is putting on airs when they treat you a certain way in front of one person or a certain group of people, but when the audience is made up of different people, their behavior toward you is completely different.
It’s as if BMan and I were speaking with a group of people, and instead of being my BFF/Wingman/Advisor/Homie, he started to degrade me or to act as though I’m not intelligent, or we aren’t as close as we are. However, once we got back to just he and I, or around people that are friends to both of us, he went back to treating me like it’s Ms. Macon and BMan.
Now I use him solely for an example because BMan would never do this to me. But, I recently had someone do this exact thing to me. Like I was the butt of their joke. Like I didn’t deserve to be treated with respect and kindness because they had to put on airs.
Let me tell y’all, I would not ever treat someone differently because of who is around. If you are my people, you are always my people. I don’t care if it is you and I versus 20MM of your haters, I’m not folding. If you’re my people, you’re my people. No matter who, what, when whatever.
This switching up, switching gears to impress whoever your audience is, that’s disloyalty, homie. And disloyalty, no matter what form it takes, is very unattractive.
Fuckin’ A!
Bless their hearts.
Amen, sista mine!