Big Sue, Little Sue

Today we're looking at the second of the six factors involved in the way Dobby communicates his status to others; his body language. Body language is the collective expression by various body parts, communicating in unison a person's emotions in any given moment. It is hard to fake body language and deliberate attempts to do so can result in a person appearing false and untrustworthy. A person's eyes, lips, facial muscles, posture, arm and hand movements, leg position and even skin tone Continue Reading

In the last blog post, I listed six ways in which Dobby communicates low status to others, and over the next six posts I will look at each one and how that relates to my own behaviour as highlighted by Big Sue. The first way in which Dobby communicates low status is with his appearance. Like all house elves, Dobby wears a grubby tunic that looks as though it's never been washed. How you dress communicates your status to others; no one would assume someone who routinely wears grubby and Continue Reading

Before having my world turned upside down, quite literally, by vertigo, I'd been planning a series of blog posts on status. My notes feel a bit cold now, when I left them they were on fire, but I shall try fanning the embers to get the fire going again: Big Sue can be quite brutal sometimes, in the nicest possible way. I was recently mulling over an incident that happened when an appointment I was due to attend, was abruptly cancelled with minutes to spare. The person I was meeting had Continue Reading