"We can analyze a TV show just like you can a book, and it won't take away from time anyone spends learning about literature." That was a good one.https://twitter.com/LokiJulianus/status/942787819247931394 …
-
Show this thread
-
To give an example based on an IRL convo I just had: I pointed out to someone that the new 56% Wars was anti-femael because women leadership results in yuge failure, and interlocutor responded that "well, no: women are shown to be competent in the movie."
2 replies 0 retweets 13 likesShow this thread -
And it's like: they're shown to *seem competent*, not *be competent*. We're so deep into "box-ticking mass culture representation as the sole arbiter of quality" people can't even observe like flowchart-level narrative structure.
2 replies 1 retweet 19 likesShow this thread -
It occurs to me that all the recent trends in academia ("TV is literature," "identity politics," "rap is music") are to give people with relatively low-IQs something to talk about.
5 replies 7 retweets 33 likesShow this thread
And this is turn is a result of the massive extension of the domain of "culture" from 5-10% of the population to 60% of the population
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.