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"A woman could never write Finnegans Wake or Ulysses"

    • Wojackhorseman2 [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      There is an incredibly smug affectation that has developed on tiktok with these kinds of videos that is so fucking insufferable

      • Grimble [he/him,they/them]
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        4 years ago

        You can't just make a point or state an opinion online anymore, it has to be out of spite for someone. I think that's where the smugness comes from

        • Wojackhorseman2 [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          I’m sure it’s also liberal smugness in a lot of cases. But I do think that the way social media is set up incentivizes take downs and dunks so people are just gravitating to what works. But there’s a way they do it that is so quintessentially tik tok that just makes me feel like I’m at a brunch table being lectured by some lib lol

    • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]
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      4 years ago

      fuck percy jackson was written by a straight white man! Rick Riordan is not fundamentally different from Steinbeck in that regard!

      I think it's fine to have strong feelings about media for children, and even to find deep meaning in it, but like, there's other stuff out there!

    • Pezevenk [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      This is weird because it says that books written decades ago by straight white men can't describe her perspective and condition and then she says "fuck Steinbeck read Percy Jackson". Ok but Percy Jackson is also written by a straight white man, it's just more recent I guess...