@dontcrysaanjh@fatho3000 Yeah same. But some girls find that camaraderie with boys. Also the person who started this discourse said that part of it was having an abusive mom so those issues would make someone trust men more.
@elizabethbelsky@fatho3000 I knew plenty of autistic guys whose friends are mostly female because they were not accepted for not conforming to masuline standards by other men. Why is it so unacceptable in the other direction?
@Borges1234x@pensandpoison From where liberty university? And yes they are. No decent program is going to let you simply repeat points scholars like Johnson and Coleridge made 150 years ago. We are in the post modernist era no English professor worth their status would let a student not engage in it.
Not to pick on this person specifically but genuinely have any of you actually read the book at the center of the controversy? Because multiple people who have said that a former sapphic relationship is the focus of multiple chapters. Y'all jumped on the discourse for no reason.
idk i mean i would be pretty disappointed if i was recommended a “queer” book only for the queer aspect of the book to simply be an identifying label with no exploration of their sexuality or a background relationship being queer
@Borges1234x@pensandpoison Yes I understood. Your second sentence really drives home my point that whatever you studied wasn't lit crit and theory. That's not how post modernist criticism works.
@Borges1234x@pensandpoison I'm not sure formal is even its actual name but it's so outdated I would actually have to go back and check someone like Samuel Johnson to be certain.
@Borges1234x@pensandpoison Buddy you claimed to use a type of lit crit not a single university in the Anglo sphere has used in a century. It sort of gives it away. It's like the people who claim to have studied science but think Moderna or Pfizer invented mRNA.
You guys are such cliches. He has no idea what he's wearing. He's buttoned both buttons on a two button jacket, which is basically never acceptable. He's wearing a tie pin with a waistcoat. The collar is wrong and it's unbuttoned. Combining 1920s hair with a Victorian moustache is gauche. He looks like a waiter at a try-hard artisanal cocktail place in 2014.
@Borges1234x@pensandpoison Formal isn't a critical literary theory. Or at least not in the last 200 years. New criticism is just one equally outdated type.
@madame_integra@FunFactsLulu Especially given how anachronistic the costuming was? The women's comments in particular were so aggressively 2025. Loved the show but it didn't even deserve a nom for costumes.
Honestly the costumes were straight up bad. They were ill fitting, too contemporary, and many came from the actors. It was not believable that they came from the wardrobes of very rich people. Especially for the women. Svetlanas dress was the only high end piece she wore.
Again I gotta say, Heated Rivalry winning the Canadian Screen Award for best costumes for a couple boring ill-fitting suits and jerseys is completely absurd and some real colonial bullshit.
@magpieros@FunFactsLulu Plus the costumes, especially the women's, are extremely anachronistic. Everything they wore was out of this era not the one it's set in