I just don't understand anonymous hate. I don't even send anonymous affection.
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I just don't understand anonymous hate. I don't even send anonymous affection.
crocordile replied to your post:
Let’s name them “p&p 95 is the perfect adaptation” and “but in the EU…”
hahahaha, it’s true
can you elaborate on how ppl overdo the parallels/opposites with finn and kylo?
Sure.
A symbolic leap occurs when you decide, without any support from the text, that some image you find in the text is a symbol, and then you develop an interpretation based on that symbol. In fact, once you make one symbolic leap in your reading of a text, you are very liable to make others in order to try to justify your first. [...]In other words, in the example I haven't been interpreting Hakim. I've been interpreting someone in real life whom I dislike and then ascribing those characteristics to Hakim. [...]Perhaps more important, however, we need to be aware that your judgment of a text's attitude toward such issues as race, class, gender, and sexual orientation will probably be influenced strongly by our own evolving attitudes towards these issues ... [t]he problem of how to know when we're analyzing the text and when we're responding, instead, only to a personal belief or experience that we've projected onto the text is not a problem we can solve once and for all. It's a problem that continually recurs for all readers. So think of it as an ongoing challenge.
Lois Tyson, “Using concepts from reader-response theory to understand our own literary interpretations,” Using Critical Theory: How to Read and Write About Literature
It gets better!!
I am so tired of this conversation
person: We don't even have real options! I mean, we've basically got a moderate Republican president.
me: Obama is left of the entire Republican Party and most of the Democratic Party.
person: Yeah, because the Democrats are becoming the centrist party the Republicans should be, and the GOP are batshit wingnuts.
me: No? The Democratic Party has been moving left for years. It's becoming LESS centrist, not more.
person: That's why we picked another corrupt center-right Clinton as our nominee, huh?
me: Hillary is not Bill?????
person: But she's still part of their system! If Biden had run—
me: HILLARY IS LEFT OF BIDEN
person: She's just saying that to get elected.
me: She was left of 85% of the Senate when she was there and 70% of the Democrats! This is not a new development!! She was left of the Bidens and Bills even as FLOTUS!
person: That's because we're so far right. Like, 'left' in America is centrist in Europe.
me: Okay, but we're not in Europe?????
person: Really, Bernie would be center-right in Europe.
me: What are you talking about?
person: The far right in Europe is what's liberal here. It's awful.
me: THE FAR RIGHT IN EUROPE ARE FUCKING NAZIS
accidentally discovering that your fave bloggers in a common megafandom are into the same dodgy ship from your middling fandom?
:D :D :D :D :D
hey Tumblr
tacking “uwu” onto a strawman version of an argument doesn’t actually refute it
person: fans bullying creators is wrong
me: absolutely
person: fans sending cascades of vitriolic threats is especially wrong and a major problem with modern fandom care of the 24/7 access that social media provides
me: YES. SERIOUSLY.
person: really, the fundamental issue is fan entitlement. fans feel they have a right to directly tell creators what they think of their art, even to attempt to influence what gets produced, rather than acknowledging the total control and authority of the creator
me: ...bye