i fumbled this on such an insane timescale that if hegel experienced this he would literally invent a brand new philosophy of consciousness and temporality
i think humanities degrees would be taken more seriously if they were more rigorous. rigorous not as in fuck gender studies but as in having your prof whip your ass about doing the readings
this confirms my longstanding theory of knowledge: people don't consider humanities concepts technical terms. "metabolic rift" is as much a technical term as "riemann zeta function", but people only get mad at the former bc they feel like they SHOULD be able to understand it
the dreamers (2003) is fucking insane it’s like challengers with french twincest. challengers for adorno readers. it’s so self-aware and smart and it also has a forced feminization subplot
“can you explain” this type of posts subliminally imparts a vision of girlhood constructed by white supremacy & patriarchy as the very essence of girlhood itself, thus also internalizing these social constructs as part and parcel of what it means to be a girl
every morning I thank my liberal arts degree for helping me develop expensive tastes that I will never be able to satisfy in my current drifty terminally online 9-5 fake flaneur adornian media ascetic life
it is not a coincidence that these memes are often tied to edtwt and terfs!! they are one of many cultural objects that use the seemingly innocent concept of girlhood to equate the beautiful with the morally good, thus also policing against the ugly/bad as absolutely undesirable.
literally 100% of the non-poc literary girlies of the ivy league write like this. it’s always a story about me and you with a thousand prepositions . about some one who listens to the strokes or sth
in 9th grade a strange 26yr old woman on the internet told me to read this book and now, 2.5 angry twinks and an english degree later, i am finally ready to start considering therapy
this is the "i got a liberal arts degree but i forgot to learn how to feel actual human emotions or critically consider how my life is entwined with political and historical reality so I want a nice 8th grade reading level book with lots of little subplots" physiognomy at work
literally all my mom wants to talk abt is relationships and im like, i’ve never been asked out, i’ve never been on a date, no one has ever had a crush on me, men at yale do NOT like me 😭😭😭
this take is literally “if you ask 100 english professors to spell a word you’ll get the same answer” why the fuck do people still think all higher dimensional math is calc
That’s because humanities concepts don’t have objective definitions or a single right answer. If you ask 100 mathematicians to solve an integral, you’ll get one answer.
that is the definition of fascism!! do yall think the propaganda posters and the state-sponsored youth movements of fascisms past came out of nowhere lol
for ppl who are qrting “normal ppl go outside” consider how the average person now spends all of their leisure time consuming content on social media maybe internet cultural movements can have profound irl political consequences like we’ve already seen w 4chan? idk
my subject matter theory for east asian female poetry remains undefeated. they either write about the mom, the ex (usually white), or desire and otherness
It is almost impossible to read any fiction or nonfiction book written by an Asian American woman these days. Everything is about trauma (usually their parents), white people (who they surround themselves with), or racism (from the white people they chase around).
challengers is 10/10. no notes. the score was shit. the love triangles we have at age 19 semiotically determine the rest of our lives. if i was zendaya i would have turned both of them into a girl
It kind of bothers me (and maybe I’m sensitive) to see snippets from Kafka’s diary, in which he was describing his acute psychological suffering, used over and over again for cheap jokes about dating, “being just a wittle girl” and going to grad school at an R1 university
hey sorry i cant make it to dinner tn, the polycule is hosting our annual Lacanian Lore-drop, where we take turns psychoanalyzing each other until one of us dies
for the ppl who are crying “b-but they’re not equally rigorous!!” in the replie/qrts, since when did we need words to be rigorous i thought they just meant things? is an average english word unrigorous because it has several different meanings?
genuine q: why are east asian women egg donors so in demand in the US while most ppl looking for donors arent east asian at all? seems like sth super sinister going on
pleaaaaase dont let this dumbass tweet make its way back to him i lowkey have a job and a reputation (anyway if you’re a hot wellesley transmasc pls hmu)
this is so true, i spent most of HS thinking that im the ugliest person alive but then i started going to shows and random college parties and realized everyone is infinitely beautiful and lovable
one of the best things about going to lots of random shows is that you see all kinds of people with all different kinds of bodies out and about having a good time and it really, really does counteract the horrifically narrow reality presented by social and other media