Making a quiet stand for the much-maligned shyness brigade

Just as drinkers are threatened by non-drinkers because they convince themselves the teetotallers are soberly watching them getting pie-eyed, making notes for subsequent use, so the happy-clappy brigade are threatened by anyone who wants to opt out.

I’m thinking of starting a new movement.

The Shyness Liberation Front. Here’s the problem. This country is prejudiced against shy people.