like I refuse to believe that there are people who think they are creating serious intellectual discussion but also use the suffix "-bro" to describe groups of people completely straightfacedly.
I cannot live in that world.
mixing highbrow and lowbrow terminology is hip now
like I refuse to believe that there are people who think they are creating serious intellectual discussion but also use the suffix "-bro" to describe groups of people completely straightfacedly.
I cannot live in that world.
mixing highbrow and lowbrow terminology is hip now
I refuse to be a part of this new world order and will now commit sudoku
the guy who runs the tumblr I snatched that from is a bit of a nerd, basically it says "Lit-bro defuses the Alt-bro's smug attitude by calling him racist and sexist because that's how educated people talk nowadays"
also
like, the people that go into Ivy colleges and maybe into PhDs media job, and write lightly new historicist analyses of HBO shows for a magazine, and grew on Nabokov and Pynchon and Delillo and talk about Knausgaard and Tao Lin and analyze the politics of the Billboard 200 and one day a serious press will buy their debut novel
the fact that this is so evocative to me despite me not knowing a single person like this is kind of scary to me
I don't personally know them, but I recognise it right off the bat in the same way that I recognise the people who do fit the Alt-Bro stereotype right off the bat. Both are really just terribly insecure people who want to look cool and fit in without compromising their sense of individuality and "specialness," which is actually kind of sad, but the Lit-Bro types just seem way more bitter about it. And the funny thing is, I hang out with people who hit a lot of the points of both types and they're perfectly nice and smart and fun to hang out with and, while certainly not perfect, don't feel like they have to front.
Yeah, sorry i forgot to put a note mentioning that it was a physics thing.
Let me know if the joke is still tasteless even with that information. If you still feel it is, then my apologies, I'll take it down.
^^ It doesn't really make any sense as social commentary, but I was trying to shoehorn in something just for the sake of querying whether I could make an effective pun out of it.
I was just being...perhaps a little open with my thoughts I guess? I just wanted to say what I was thinking, with less of a filter.
FYI a "black body" is something that absorbs all the electromagnetic radiation (e.g. light) that hits it, and is "black" in the sense of the color it'd appear if you looked at it.
I was trying to analogize "light" to "attention". It was really stupidly shoehorny, sorry.
Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
See, I got part of that, in that the color black is said to absorb all light. I didn't need to know about the physics thing.
But it's still a really horrible thing to say.
Like Glenn, I don't know what you are. Every possible color of your skin, every ethnicity you could be would lend a different context. But each context would still be a horrible result.
You should totally go to the thing, if you have time. The history of Afro-Americans and the popo is a bramblebush of factors leading to dehumanization, in that it's tangled and complicated and painful to interact with.
See, I got part of that, in that the color black is said to absorb all light. I didn't need to know about the physics thing.
But it's still a really horrible thing to say.
Like Glenn, I don't know what you are. Every possible color of your skin, every ethnicity you could be would lend a different context. But each context would still be a horrible result.
I just overestimated the acceptability of posting potentially-offensive stuff, even here.
I'm sorry I posted it; I definitely didn't mean to offend anyone.
All I meant to do was to simply post an unrefined piece of nonsense straight from the mental sandbox. A mental sandbox wherein connections are made between all sorts of things, including those things that ought not to be connected anyway. This -- connecting "black body" in the event title to "black body" as a term in thermo/physics -- is such a pair of the latter type.
(I reposted the essence of it for reference since I blanked my earlier post.)
I figured it would be offensive if I actually DID crack a pun with the intention of humor. But I thought I would be okay if I didn't have a good pun, and simply discussed trying and failing to come up with a good pun, and also added the point that a pun could be non-humorous but "uncomfortably apt". I guess it wasn't enough.
Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
Like just the place that you made your conclusion is horrible. The idea that as black bodies they're diverting attention from more important things? Disgusting. What's more important than their lives?
I need you to understand the severity of this. It's a pun, it's a joke; sure. But the logic that the joke reached to, that's...that's just really really awful.
I actually pointed out (in the post I blanked...ironically) that that implication is rather disturbing. I pointed out exactly what you're saying. And pointed out that's how it shouldn't be, but how it's happening right now.
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I don't personally know them, but I recognise it right off the bat in the same way that I recognise the people who do fit the Alt-Bro stereotype right off the bat. Both are really just terribly insecure people who want to look cool and fit in without compromising their sense of individuality and "specialness," which is actually kind of sad, but the Lit-Bro types just seem way more bitter about it. And the funny thing is, I hang out with people who hit a lot of the points of both types and they're perfectly nice and smart and fun to hang out with and, while certainly not perfect, don't feel like they have to front.
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That was peculiar.
I wouldn't fit in it, for one thing.
basic tact.
Let me know if the joke is still tasteless even with that information. If you still feel it is, then my apologies, I'll take it down.
^^ It doesn't really make any sense as social commentary, but I was trying to shoehorn in something just for the sake of querying whether I could make an effective pun out of it.
I was just being...perhaps a little open with my thoughts I guess? I just wanted to say what I was thinking, with less of a filter.
FYI a "black body" is something that absorbs all the electromagnetic radiation (e.g. light) that hits it, and is "black" in the sense of the color it'd appear if you looked at it.
I was trying to analogize "light" to "attention". It was really stupidly shoehorny, sorry.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
it'll be fuuuun. Trust meeeeeee.
I'm sorry I posted it; I definitely didn't mean to offend anyone.
All I meant to do was to simply post an unrefined piece of nonsense straight from the mental sandbox. A mental sandbox wherein connections are made between all sorts of things, including those things that ought not to be connected anyway. This -- connecting "black body" in the event title to "black body" as a term in thermo/physics -- is such a pair of the latter type.
(I reposted the essence of it for reference since I blanked my earlier post.)
I figured it would be offensive if I actually DID crack a pun with the intention of humor. But I thought I would be okay if I didn't have a good pun, and simply discussed trying and failing to come up with a good pun, and also added the point that a pun could be non-humorous but "uncomfortably apt". I guess it wasn't enough.
my use of "rather" does not mean to downplay severity; I just tend to use understatement a lot.
edit: ninja'd
In other news, I'm watching the UN Climate Summit that's going on right now in NYC.
https://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid1722935254001/?bctid=2730069555001&autoStart=false&secureConnections=true&width=800&height=450
programme: http://www.un.org/climatechange/summit/programme/
livetweeted using this hashtag: https://twitter.com/hashtag/climate2014?f=realtime
I just got feels from Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner's poem. It's a poem she wrote addressing her baby, and the world that child will look forward to.
Also, the UN has good intermission music.