The Judges

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Lily's writing from last time still has me hung up on all the ridiculousness of rush—and prompted me to really question "how it works." Why does it "work" much better for some than it does for others? Why does it fail the people who it should work the smoothest for? Why is a big component of how it works judging the appearance or quality of another girl? Why is it NOT all about judging their character? Maybe because we can't tell enough about their character in a five minute conversation, so we default to what we can see. But I argue otherwise—what I could see while rushing the most glammed-up of girls, who clearly understood how this process works, was them continuing to check their phones. Why did it work for them?