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- 21 de Jul, 2015
I would have made the same mistake. After hearing Wu describe how playing the "Bloodsport" of Peggle shows her "high level of skill" in the Grace Hopper interview, it underlines just how much she takes all the wrong things too seriously....
It's instructive, actually. It seems as though so much interaction with Wu is based around ego-gratifictaion, whether it's her giving a speech to tell all the men what they're doing wrong, or this guy at the Grace Hopper event in Houston treating Wu like an authority on all things vidya, which she clearly loves.
That interview, in particular, shows just how awkward Wu's personal interactions are.
I know we've all seen it, but i watched it again while looking for new inspiration in my personal gallery of crazy Wu faces. Anyway, just to start: EVERYTHING the dude says, Wu responds with: "Omigod that's SUCH and insightful question!" - like really, practically squealing with glee. It's strange, to say the least....borderline flirtatious, I'd say....if I didn't know Wu was such a true and honest 100 % straight, happily married Cis female. And then the constant gesticulations, ye gods....I've though about this alot. Wu has the oddest, most compulsive gesticulations I've ever seen. Whether manual or facial, there's many patterns:
1. When Wu thinks she's finished a profound sentence, or feels under attack from a "hit piece", she'll end a sentence by tilting her head, squinting her eyes, frowning, and nodding. Look for it. Seriously, its one of her most common tics.
2. To illustrate a point, Wu makes these palms-up grabbing gestures, over and over and over and over again. It's nutty. Another one of the most frequent.
3. Again, when Wu is recalling a false memory, inflating her own resume, tooting her own horn, or thinking she sounds smart. she'll close her eyes and smile, perhaps laugh, for an unnaturally protracted period of time. Creepy. Like she's just let out a SBD fart in bed with Frank and is waiting for him to smell it, tickled with her own wit.
4. One of the MOST frequent things she does, and this is vocal not manual, is to ingratiate herself through language with groups she doesn't actually belong to but wants to be a part of: "...we women..." or "...speaking as an engineer..." are just two examples from this interview, but she does it all the time. This is also one of the best ways to get on her good side conversationally, it seems: refer to her as being a part of one of these groups. The isometric co-hosts do it ALL the time, which is one of the reasons Wu seems so high on her own ego when you listen to those abortions.
5. This is just a habit of hers, but I had to include it because it reminds me of OPL: Wu will use slang and terminology that is so "inside baseball" when talking with people who clearly don't know what she's referring to. CWC discusses pokemon games as if people are all expected to know the details of each iteration.....he seems to do it because he thinks everyone cares about whatever HE does. But Wu, on the other hand, IS actually smart enough to know that these sorts of terms and bits of cliquey slang are not known to all. She doesn't care, loves to be asked by someone, (as it demonstrates she knows more than someone else, putting her in the role of an authority again) and loves playing the teacher. In the Grace Hopper interview, she uses terms that the guy clearly doesn't understand, just to seem smart. I think her over-reliance on this technique, when interviewed by stupid people, is one of the reasons she got away with claiming the degree bona fides for so long: people thought Wu knew her shit because she deliberately chooses this impenetrable jargon, as a way of bragging.
Whew, that got long! Sorry. My 2 cents turned into a bit more. But I wanted to see if other kiwis had noticed these patterns as well.
