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Your first step is to . If you spend your entire pool party trying to drag the killjoy into every game, you’ll exhaust yourself and annoy them. Instead, focus on your own fun . Play the pool games you love, splash around with the people who are already engaged, and let the killjoy observe. Sometimes, the best way to deal with a chronic killjoy is to establish boundaries and maintain your own joy.
The killjoy—popularized in feminist and critical theory (Ahmed, 2010)—refuses false positivity. When applied to the pool deck, this figure interrogates: Who gets to splash? Is cannonballing a micro-aggression? Does floatie ownership signal bourgeois excess? This paper posits that killjoy entertainment transforms the pool from a site of sensory release into a theater of ethical performance.
