Summer Staycation

July 15, 2011

indiemaiden:

vicemag:

Acting dumb is a silent plague, a self-imposed reverse eugenics, and the worst thing that girls do to themselves and accept from each other. It’s totally crackers. I’m not really sure right now if it’s worse to be purposefully stupid, from willful ignorance and the lazies, or to be preternaturally smart but act dumb. So why do girls act dumb? Because.

MORE PEOPLE LIKE YOUGenerally, people are stupid, and generally, stupid people are threatened by smart people. That’s good. However, the US has finally Machiavellied its dominant culture of dummies into thinking that they’re in charge, with their mega-churches and Michele Bachmanns, and turning “elite” into a pejorative and The Great Gatsby into a 3D movie. All of which means that smart people are reviled instead of feared. Too bad, so sad! Anyway, this means that once upon a time people tried to seem smarter than they were (see: The Preppie Handbook; the Ivy League fetish; books) and now people from every social and economic strata are obsessed with you respecting them and their fantasy verb tenses and, basically, Idiocracy came true, especially among women who are ready to swipe at anybody who wants to marginalize them even more. The dumber you are, the realer you are. So, it’s still technically American exceptionalism, but, like, the opposite.
Read the rest at Vice Magazine: GIRL NEWS: WHY GIRLS ACT DUMB - Viceland Today
This Kate Carraway character, she knows what’s up.

You know, what’s funny is that there were a couple of interesting ideas buried in this piece, but it was awfully difficult to find them under the 17 layers of bullshit affected vernacular this (female) writer used to distance herself from her thoughts (because god forbid a woman writer, or basically any writer under 30, have to take intellectual responsibility). Was that supposed to be ironic?
If so, kudos!

vicemag:

Acting dumb is a silent plague, a self-imposed reverse eugenics, and the worst thing that girls do to themselves and accept from each other. It’s totally crackers. I’m not really sure right now if it’s worse to be purposefully stupid, from willful ignorance and the lazies, or to be preternaturally smart but act dumb. So why do girls act dumb? Because.

MORE PEOPLE LIKE YOU
Generally, people are stupid, and generally, stupid people are threatened by smart people. That’s good. However, the US has finally Machiavellied its dominant culture of dummies into thinking that they’re in charge, with their mega-churches and Michele Bachmanns, and turning “elite” into a pejorative and The Great Gatsby into a 3D movie. All of which means that smart people are reviled instead of feared. Too bad, so sad! Anyway, this means that once upon a time people tried to seem smarter than they were (see: The Preppie Handbook; the Ivy League fetish; books) and now people from every social and economic strata are obsessed with you respecting them and their fantasy verb tenses and, basically, Idiocracy came true, especially among women who are ready to swipe at anybody who wants to marginalize them even more. The dumber you are, the realer you are. So, it’s still technically American exceptionalism, but, like, the opposite.

Read the rest at Vice Magazine: GIRL NEWS: WHY GIRLS ACT DUMB - Viceland Today

This Kate Carraway character, she knows what’s up.

You know, what’s funny is that there were a couple of interesting ideas buried in this piece, but it was awfully difficult to find them under the 17 layers of bullshit affected vernacular this (female) writer used to distance herself from her thoughts (because god forbid a woman writer, or basically any writer under 30, have to take intellectual responsibility). Was that supposed to be ironic?

If so, kudos!

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