What are your 3 academic degrees?
AnonymousI majored in Biology, minored in History, have a medical degree, and an MBA.
Anonymouswhen a british actor does an american accent everyone’s like “i didn’t even know they were british until they were on colbert.” but when americans do a british accent everyone’s like “they’re supposed to be from east cocksford but their glottal e’s are north dicksford. shameful.”
Saw an interesting interview with Hugh Laurie talking about this (on playing House and ‘getting away with’ doing an American accent):
“…. because they’re much less interested…they don’t have that 'Professor Higgins’ ear for…. class and background and geography and the way the British are much more attuned to wait a second where are you from and what trick are you trying to pull on me by… with that particular choice of words. I think partly again because it’s such a big country nobody really…. it doesn’t bother people so much where you’re from or why you sound the way you sound. America’s a country that’s too big to know itself. Someone living in Florida’s go no idea how people behave or what they eat or how they dress in Oregon, it’s just so far away - whereas we know, of course, we know absolutely everything about… every British drama we watch, we’re like, well that’s High Wycombe, that could never happen because it’s a one way system there! whereas America’s so mythically grand, it’s too big to know it'self, and that actually has an affect with things like accent. ”
society’s infantilization of decorated objects is honestly one of the greatest recent crimes against humans’ innate desire for beauty
“the toothbrush/hairbrush/bike/vanity desk with flowers on it is For Kids! this plain beige one is For Adults!”
I am literally throwing you into a volcano
SERIOUSLY WHY DO ONLY KIDS GET THE SPARKLY DINOSAUR SNEAKERS
WHAT THE FUCK I WANT SPARKLY DINOSAUR SNEAKERS AND I’M 35
I love reading a book you are slightly too stupid for
ways to keep reading despite feeling stupid because the tags you all keep adding have made me realize that my post is being used to self harm:
- recognize that stupidity is a cultural concept leveraged against stigmatized populations who operate from devalued spheres of intelligence
- notice feelings of panic and shame and frustration rising in your body when you encounter a difficult text, react to them like a loving friend who thinks you deserve to learn things
- recognize the conditioning it takes to convince someone they are too stupid to deserve to learn things
- go back and read a difficult text whose meaning and nuances escaped you the first time around after you read two or three more and the first one has had time to cook in your brain
- open your brain’s mouth like a whale shark and cruise through the water digesting anything that gets caught in your filter plates
