My Philosophy

Hey there. My name is Annie. I'm studying philosophy and English in Zürich, Switzerland atm that's why i'm a pretentious shit if you were wondering... (jk i'm nice)

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Since I’m now officially going to grad school, I’m going to need to figure out how to teach. Here are some teaching tactics that will definitely connect me to the Young People of Today:

In the textbook, he’s called Karl Popper, but in this classroom, he’s called KPopp

Law of Leibniz? #LoL!

Lectures on Feyerabend are mandated by law to start with “But everything changed when the Feyerabend attacked”

^ despite the fact that they kind of didn’t

Every class, slur the pronunciation on ‘Descartes’ a little closer to ‘Dickheart’. Then, in the final lecture just change it to ‘Dickhead’ and see if anyone notices.

Refer to the followers of Thomas Kuhn exclusively as ‘Kuhn and the Gang’

‘Fregean’? I don’t know where you learned that word, but the correct adjective is definitely ‘Fregelicious’.

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Art nouveau: Them fuckers who do the swirlieboops.

Art deco: Them fuckers who do the block-ee-blonks.

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So there’s this book. It passes the Bechdel Test with flying colors. The polyamorous woman is never slutshamed in the narrative, and neither is the single mother. Sex workers are defended. Women have agency, and their actions drive a significant amount of the plot. 

I’m talking, of course, about Les Mis, which was written by a man in 1862. 

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me: *eating microwaved ramen noodles and watching kitchen nightmares* cannot believe this asshole didnt use fresh chicken in his paella, unbelievable

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@propertyofaginger dat you

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*puts a picture of a kitten on my resume*

me: i hope that this can persuade you in my favor

me: *winks with both eyes*

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take your time, it’s ok

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quit procrastinating ok bitch you about to fail

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*turns in a bottle of wine along with my essay with a note saying, “here, drink this as you read my paper so you may care less about how poorly written it is.”*

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Venn diagram

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i made a mug for my bud claire!! it’s a SUPA late christmas present but i think it turned out nice 🌟🌟

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so nice!!!

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*cancels plans* sorry i can’t come i’m ugly

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“straight people die all the time on shows, you were just being treated equally”

analogies work best with dumbasses so let me use yet another one

you got two people 

one of them has a plate and it’s filled with so many cookies you can’t even count how many there are on it, there’s so many of them they’re falling off the plate

another one who has exactly one cookie on their plate

you take one cookie away from each plate, to treat them equally, right? meaning equality to you is that one of them has absolutely no cookies left whereas the other one can still stuff his fucking face of cookies for the next 35 years to come

this is the simplest way i can explain to someone with less ability to think than a 5th grader what’s the difference between formal equality and substantive equality if at this point you don’t understand you need to go back to the basics of critical thinking

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Adorable🌹Gay & Lesbian Pride in NYC. 1986. #gaypride #grandmaforgays #1986

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Big sweaters and lacy lingerie underneath

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Person: Scale of 1-10 how dramatic are you?

Me: Phantom of the Opera overture

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some old person: you’re not the first generation to fear adulthood, you’re just the first to openly bitch about it

me:

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Examples of Stockholm Syndrome in Disney

 Frollo and Quasimodo

Mother Gothel and Rapunzel

Frollo and Mother Gothel convince Quasimodo and Rapunzel that their lives are dependent on them. The two villains claim the outside world is a terrible place even though they know this is not true. They also constantly emotionally abuse their victims by implying their worthlessness and destroying their self-esteems. Quasimodo and Rapunzel sympathize with their captors and even believe their captors are protecting them and treating them with kindness. However, both captors are merely using and manipulating their victims for their own selfish purposes.

NOT:

The Beast and Belle

 Belle does not sympathize with the Beast when she is treated poorly. She becomes angry and leaves the castle, only returning by her own wish so that the Beast (who saves her) does not freeze to death. She does not respond nicely towards the Beast until he treats her with respect. In this situation, Belle has control and is not manipulated into feeling for the Beast, nor does the Beast treat her disrespectfully after the first night. While the Beast does have an underlying motive as to keeping Belle in his castle, he abandons this idea and sets her free to make her happy. If anything, this story is a case of Lima Syndrome where the captor starts to sympathize with the victim.

Check out this post which refocuses the purpose of Beauty and the Beast from merely (and wrongly) being about Stockholm Syndrome to it’s original purpose.

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FUCKING FINALLY

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I don’t usually reblog stuff like this, but Beauty and the Beast is my favorite movie and I’d like to have this on my page!

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this is actually a very good analysis. I take back all the times I’ve called Beauty and the Beast a ‘stockholm syndrome’ romance.