![]() “Mooning at least keeps the little notification there.” (It also provides a convenient front, should the moon-ee get wise to the scheme: Rather than tell her he mooned her because he “didn’t want to deal with her shit,” Casey told his girlfriend that he didn’t respond to her texts because he was “out.”) “Ignoring seems crueler? Like if you have a read receipt on and you just see the person has completely disregarded your message, that sucks,” said Casey, 26, who recently mooned the girl he was dating after they had a fight. You could even moon a relative: in fact, my friend Doug told me he recently found out he was mooned by his mom.Īs a way to tune out someone else’s bullshit without severing ties with them completely, mooning is a middle ground between the abrupt Band-Aid rip of blocking someone and the slow fade of ignoring someone’s texts. You could moon anyone, for any reason: a friend prone to drunk texting, or a particularly loquacious group text contributor who inexplicably sends Pepe memes at 5:30 in the morning. “Some part of my lizard brain still wants to know he's texting me and thinking about me, even when I know it's completely a game for him.”īut mooning doesn’t necessarily have to be aimed at a romantic partner. “I don't have the willpower to block,” she said. ![]() Rachael, 34, frequently moons men she’s dated, particularly if they’ve been shitty in the past. Yet in practice, people moon for less urgent (and not entirely kind) reasons: it’s a way to ignore your friends’ texts without their knowledge, simply because you don’t feel like dealing with their shit.įor some, mooning is a way of keeping an emotionally destructive ex or former hookup in your life, without letting them take up space in your inbox.
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