I Promise I’m Paying Attention — I Just Have Resting Bored Face

The gendered phenomenon that’s putting your Zoom meetings to the test

Kelli María Korducki
Forge
Published in
4 min readApr 1, 2020

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A photo of a bored looking woman on a video call on her computer.
Photo: FG Trade/Getty Images

No really, I promise. I’m listening.

I know I look like I’m staring into middle distance, actively disassociating from your every word. And, okay, it probably looks uncannily as though I just rolled my eyes at you…

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Kelli María Korducki
Forge
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