to have your read receipts on, and read the text message, without responding. purposefully ignoring a person and/or their message.
Jessica was left on the reads by Mike, which caused an argument.
Interpretations of media that makes excuses for sexist/anti-lgbtq/racist themes by giving undue credit and nuance to authorial intent; especially as a way to give a pass to offensive writing in movies/books/etc you might enjoy.
"Zelda isn't actually a damsel in distress because she helps in defeating the final boss"
"No, that's just a left-reading of her role. She still has to wait around for Link to save her very frequently."
or
"The left-readings of Rey's role in Star Wars Episode 8 are too forgiving, considering she spends so much of the film trying to 'fix' men. "
What you're doing right now
Me: Hey, you should stop reading. Go touch some grass instead.
An introvert's sad excuse for life.
Tom: Hi Bianca!
Bianca: .........
Tom: Are you doing anything after school?
Bianca: Reading.
Tom: Oh.
(Tom walks off.)
Staring at a dead piece of wood for hours hallucinating
James: "How was reading?"
Bill: "Great this dead peice of wood is amazing."
James: "Im sure you had a great hallucination Bill ."
You are doing it.
You are a dumbass if you are reading this