It’s not my favorite mask to put on, but I’d rather be perceived as an idiot than suspicious. It’s why the Mavens work so well, specifically when it comes to men: they’d rather see a gorgeous woman with nothing between her ears than a woman on a mission. It’s also something I quickly learned after my glow-up in high school: we live in a society where someone sees a pretty face and a killer body and decides she’s an airhead. I simply decided to use their assumptions against them. They want to think I’m some kind of idiot with a nice rack and let their guard down because of it? Let them. It
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