I live in a city full of very liberal very educated people.
a huge chunk of them think books are wastes of time and are angry they were forced to read so much during their PhDs/masters/JDs.
I’ve been on many first dates with a science PhD who tells me reading fiction is stupid and dumb and if I’m reading it should only be for career productivity or self help crap. And oh, btw my degrees in humanities mean I’m a stupid idiot who wasted years of my life reading stupid crap books.
Not sure if their comment is related / deliberate, but the image in the article is from the film Idiocracy
In the film, the people of the future speak real slow and dumb. When they hear the time travelling protagonist speak in a vanilla US West Coast accent, the narrator describes them as thinking he sounds “Faggy and pretentious”, there are multiple points in the film where future-folk tell the main character “you sound like a fag”
I had a teacher in high school (in Ohio) ask me if I was English. I don’t sound even remotely English, I’ve just always generally spoken in complete sentences and occasionally use multi-syllable words.
What I believe they mean is that the same people who’d use it as a demeaning slur and something to avoid are the same who would never touch a book after not being required to do so … And likewise vote for people who’s entire platform is fear mongering and hate towards the “other”.
‘Books are for fags’ is probably what they think
I live in a city full of very liberal very educated people.
a huge chunk of them think books are wastes of time and are angry they were forced to read so much during their PhDs/masters/JDs.
I’ve been on many first dates with a science PhD who tells me reading fiction is stupid and dumb and if I’m reading it should only be for career productivity or self help crap. And oh, btw my degrees in humanities mean I’m a stupid idiot who wasted years of my life reading stupid crap books.
It’s insane.
Books is*…
*Them books is fer
Not cool, dude. There are very few words I self-censor, but that’s absolutely one of them.
Use–mention distinction
Pretty easy to understand, but still somehow eludes most people.
Not sure if their comment is related / deliberate, but the image in the article is from the film Idiocracy
In the film, the people of the future speak real slow and dumb. When they hear the time travelling protagonist speak in a vanilla US West Coast accent, the narrator describes them as thinking he sounds “Faggy and pretentious”, there are multiple points in the film where future-folk tell the main character “you sound like a fag”
That’s right. They literally say “books are for fags” in the movie several times. It’s a direct quote.
I had a teacher in high school (in Ohio) ask me if I was English. I don’t sound even remotely English, I’ve just always generally spoken in complete sentences and occasionally use multi-syllable words.
What I believe they mean is that the same people who’d use it as a demeaning slur and something to avoid are the same who would never touch a book after not being required to do so … And likewise vote for people who’s entire platform is fear mongering and hate towards the “other”.
If I talk about people being racist against African-Americans, I still don’t drop n-bombs. Not acceptable.
Sure retsrd
Tell me you’re one of the 33% who don’t read without telling me.
New user tag, yay!
don’t be retarded
Wow edgy