I don’t usually make posts like this, but I’ve been seeing a lot of anti-intellectual junk lately, and I really think we need to put the word “pretentious” up on a shelf until people learn what it actually means.
It doesn’t describe someone who likes artsy-fartsy deep meaning media. People who are pretentious are fake. They’re posers trying to be sophisticated and unique, not like other girls. They pretend to only like stuff they think will make them sound cool when they talk about it. They want to act like they know something you don’t, and they want attention for it.
By definition, if you genuinely enjoy something, you can’t be pretentious. If it resonates with you, and you analyze it, and you don’t care what people think, that’s the polar opposite, actually. If you love obscure experimental prog music, if you watch underground high concept indie films through English teacher eyes, if you spend hours in a modern art museum reading each piece as a vessel for storytelling, if your backpack’s full of poetry books that inspire you, if you play underrated games that were someone’s passion project, if you have an interest in studying the classics or the masters, you are not pretentious.
Of course, some people just don’t like some stuff, and that’s fine, but that’s not what this is about. Don’t let anti-intellectuals shame you for enjoying things just because your interests are inaccessible to them, because they refuse to be brave and put effort into critical thinking. You’re not stuck up for refusing to overlook the craft of artists.
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Idk how I feel about Raya being a disney princess. I liked her character, but I feel like her outfit is just so boring and has ugly colors. Like it’s a fine character design for her movie and world, she’d just look so dull and out of place next to the rest of them. And, like others have said about Mirabel not being a disney princess, not every girl needs to be part of the lineup! Being a disney princess doesn’t make her any better or worse of a character for kids to look up to. Honestly I don’t even care about what technically qualifies as a disney princess at this point, the artist in me just wants to see some color.
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i just. just finished my fifteen day unit plan for a final,,, it’s sixty-two pages,,, did. most of it while sick with covid,,, but it’s submitted a day early,,, two more finals left,,, t two more finals,,, tWo MoRe FiNaLs LeFt
and then maybe once i’m done i can finally do Something for mailee week ahhhhhhhh
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How do I know human beings, at their core, are good and kind? Drunk girls in bathrooms.
You will never find anyone else with purer intentions or more altruistic than drunk girls in bathrooms. Inhibitions are low and they have nothing to gain from comforting, complimenting, or helping out a stranger, but they do with no hesitation.
Like you could probably be like I need a new kidney :( and a drunk girl in the bathroom would be like "girl, what's your blood type? Let's go to the hospital right now, I got you, you're gonna be okay."
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