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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"I only eat fine dining, to prove I truly understand cuisine and am not a basic bitch, or junk food to prove I have an animal id and I'm not a pretentious fop But don't catch me going to some restaurant *trying* to be upscale but failing That's just cringe"
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"I watch the Coen Brothers, I watch experimental indie dramas, I watch foreign films from the French and Italian New Wave OR I watch wrestling, cartoons, porn, dank memes But don't catch me stanning something *trying* to be deep in the damn MCU, foh"
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This is, of course, a transparently insecure, adolescent mindset It's obvious terror of being caught in your feels in any kind of public way that's legible to the normies
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Where the fuck do you get off saying self-protection is juvenile though
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When it's performative "self-protection" to create an unassailable public persona no one can mock as uncool? ... As opposed to just, like, not posting at all?
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