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- Complicating matters is a societal proscription against showing emotion in public.
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It can also be a sign of eccentricity or absentmindedness; Bunny Ears Lawyers and Cloudcuckoolanders may go barefoot in public because they are either flouting societal conventions or are simply oblivious to them.
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Although the author was still barred off from directly saying anything out loud, they put effectively impossible to deny implications that Kyousuke/Kirino only ended the public side of their romance to stop societal backlash, but continue successfully romancing in private.
Source: Light Novel / Oreimo
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Societal and Public. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/public/societal
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Societal or Public. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/public/societal.
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