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Puck: you mean apart from anything else, she's a Bad Mother? Oh no! Won't somebody please think of the children?
I love the way a significant proportion of Barbelith goes all tabloid whenever the 'wrong' kind of female celebrity is mentioned: ooh look, she couldn't satisfy her man! I love the fact that whether Victoria Beckham made the alleged claim with pride has not been confirmed, but nevertheless has become the basis for concerns about her terrible influence on other people's kids as well as her own. I love the way that, whenever someone points out the amount of class-based elitism on Barbelith, they get accused of "romanticising" or "glamourising" the working classes (because it's romantic and glamorous to view "them" as valid human beings like you and me!).
Most of all, I love the fact that not one single person has had anything bad to say about James Ellroy saying almost the same damn thing. Because James Ellroy is coooool.
Loomis, I don't know where my "plac[ing] value on intellectual exploits" comes into this, at all. Yeah, I do. Does that mean I should keep my objections to myself if I think I smell bullshit? News to me.
I'm not fucking misconstruing anything. Which thread are you reading? Is it not the one that includes the post wherein Victoria Beckham's reading habits are speculated upon and mocked not just on because she is common, but also because she is female (because women who are not cool and alternative like Barbelith people like silly chick-lit books, and are into shallow things like clothes so would not understand American Psycho in the right way as subversive and yada yada Matrixcakes)?
If you think there's no elitism in this thread, maybe you missed huge chunks like this:
I am also sure that there is no creativity in the things he watches on DVD, as watching does tend to be a little passive, if one wants to be picky about it. I'm sure there is some level of second hand stimuli, brain activity provoked by watching eye candy created by others... but watching the likes of Titanic, Independence day and other Hollywood hits isn't that creative in my book. Let alone listening to some of the shit from the charts, which was hardly creative when it was written... or recycled.
The entire train of thought and example all stemmed from the Posh/Becks/pop culture thing... I just neglected to explain that, and the sort of entertainment my darling brother enjoys.
Ariadne, how can you read the above, in which o_O_o spells out exactly how it works that he is cleverer than his brother because he has different taste in art/entertainment, and then say "don't stress, nobody thinks you're a cretin!"??? I think he's a cretin. There's no creativity in the music his brother likes, because only music like fucking Tool or whatever o_O_o is into is creative... God it's all so familiar and tired. |
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