My brain hurts with the amount of stupidity in this country. I am going to scream the next time I meet a model who brags about being highly intelligent where she is ending her sentences with prepositions and using an abundance of phrases such as "like" as some fucked up form of a sentence transition. I get the "Oh my god, like I totally, like agree with what you say about models being dumb. I mean like I have a degree in art and I like really value education and all of that. Do you know where this shoot is at?". The real kicker is that 99% of these "college educated" girls have no clue as to the different requirements for degrees. They think their degree in art or some other hippy humanities degree is the same as a science degree. I say "I have a 3.5" and I hear "I have a 4.0!" as a reply. My argument is that having a 4.0 in a bunch of silly humanities, earth science, and art classes is different than having a 3.5 in higher level math and science classes. Any idiot can have a 4.0 if all they had to do for a 110 credit hour degree was draw pretty pictures, study on the science of color, and write a couple of essays. I'd love to see these dumb bitches take a semester of a statistics, french, economics, accounting, and calculus classes and survive. I have literally 175 credit hours to a B.S. which is literally 2 more years than any other degree.
I am really very close to losing my temper these days. I just want to shout, "You're an idiot! You've accomplished nothing! You have no future! That's why you now have a useless college degree and you still get naked for a living! You fail as an intellectual and a contributing member of society! Now fuck off and die a slow death!".
Sunday, June 1, 2008
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while i'd agree that science is friggin' hard (for me because i'm an english nerd), one of my fellow enlgish nerds pointed something out to me recently: when you're taking math or sciences it is actually possible to get a perfect mark. difficult, sure--but possible. such things do not exist in the humanities. no matter how hard you work, it's never going to be worth 100%, because the possibility of it being better is always there, even if specific areas for improvement can't necessarily be pointed out. all that "there are no wrong answers" bullshit is maybe a little bit true, but the fact that there are no right answers is an undogdeable fact. which i'm not complaining about. i love my discipline, and the ever-present potential for the expansion of ideas at all levels is something i'd neverever trade for the fleeting satisfaction of getting something "perfect". that's basically the reason i'm interested in studying this shit. but i'm just saying. there are those who get by and score arts derees on not-so-much-intellience...i know this...but there are also those of us who work our goddamned faces off.
I wouldn't push too hard on the grammar issue. Even Isobel, who (I think you will agree) is at least as smart as most of her fellow deities, says "I" when she should say "me" (as in "Vote for Samantha and I"). It annoys the hell out of me, but what can you say to a goddess?
I used to be compulsive about not ending sentences with prepositions, but lately I'm realizing that the "correct" forms often sound stilted and unnatural. For example, "To whom should I give this?" sounds more natural as, "Who should I give this to?"
Also, I kind of like "like." I know it's a stereotypically immature (or bimboish) way of speaking, but when I think of it philosophically, it actually makes sense to me: we can never have a perfect knowledge of any reality, and language can never express anything with perfect accuracy, so nothing is actually what we say it is, it's only "like" what we say it is.
I do hate it, though, when people use the word "gay" to mean "lame." (BTW, the comments section of the video linked in the last sentence is where I first ran across Isobel. "First met"? Do you say "met" when you're only talking about an online exchange?)
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