I feel like the word "middlebrow" is the culprit here I find that in real life "middlebrow" is basically an insult, and in fact a really cutting one, while "highbrow" and "lowbrow" are in fact both used positively It's an attitude I really dislikehttps://twitter.com/charlesthomas/status/1366244411303165956 …
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A lot of people - by people I generally mean men, especially men on this website - genuinely think that "highbrow = good, lowbrow = good, middlebrow = poison" is their ideal for evaluating art
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As someone who likes their share of weird shit, normie shit, and dumb shit, what makes middlebrow such a cutting putdown for certain things is when they are being pretentious - trying for high or lowbrow, without actually being either but a watered down version.
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Yeah and that's the attitude I'm saying I dislike
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