「ぶられる」とは「ぶる」の受動態？ What does it mean to be ぶる-ed? [duplicate]

Question

I can't find a related discussion, not here, not on the Internet at large, so I am surprised this seemingly hasn't been asked or discussed.

純真ぶるのはやめろ。この数週間、僕たちはいつ情熱的なキスを交わしてもおかしくなかった。君もそれはわかっているはずだ。私はあなたほどにはキスをしたいと思っていなかった"そんなふりをするのはやめてくれ。今みたいに中断されただけでもたまらないのに、そのうえ偽善者ぶられるのは我慢ならない (source)

ぶる is a 五段活用動詞, so this is not 可能形. The context doesn't seem to warrant 尊敬体 either. 自発? But this is not related to thinking. So 受動態 seems to be the only possibility by a process of elimination. But what does it mean to be on the receiving end of behaving like/assuming the air of something?

Does 偽善者ぶられる mean you, the listener—the implied subject here—are seen by me as behaving like a hypocrite? Or I somehow suffer as a result of you behaving like a hypocrite?

Here's another example.

これくらいでお姉さんぶられてもな

Answer 1

振る(ぶる, essentially ふる undergoing a 濁音 pronunciation change by being used as an attachment or suffix-verb. Usually written in kana alone) indicates acting in a certain fashion.

Explicitly, it only indicates the way that a person acts, without any other judgement (usage ①). But quite often it is used to imply "putting on airs" or "acting like something (despite not actually being that way)" for example, in 「いい子ぶる」 "acting like a good child" -> "playing goody two-shoes" (usage ②)

In your examples the base expression is...

「偽善者ぶる」 "to act like a hypocrite" -> "to act hypocritically" (usage ①)

「お姉さんぶる」 "to act like (my) older sister (even though you aren't)" (usage ②)

In this case, then, the verbs are then put into the 受身形 passive form. This indicates that the speaker is emphasizing not just that the listener is acting in that fashion (putting aside the question of whether they actually are or aren't the thing they're acting as), but that the listener was/is acting that way in relation to the speaker.

「偽善者ぶられるのは我慢ならない」 "I can't take it that you're acting like a hypocrite to me!"

「これくらいでお姉さんぶられてもな」 "Even if you act like you're my older sister after as little as this..." -> something like "What are you doing acting like you're my older sister, even though our connection has been this slight/minimal?" (Japanese is very context sensitive, so this small remark in isolation is difficult to pin down exactly. This is one possible meaning it could have, not the definitive one for that passage.)