Tag: unsurprisingly

thealmightyprincess:

literally-a-piece-of-trash:

mazarin221b:

berlynn-wohl:

heredayembracesnight:

knitmeapony:

Millennials should really rediscover MASH en masse. It’s dead on aesthetic for this generation.

Please rediscover M*A*S*H fellow millennials. It’s wonderful.

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You’ve never experienced sarcasm and rebellion against the System like Hawkeye and Trapper and BJ’s sarcasm and rebellion against the System.

Do yourselves a favour and go watch this show

Source: sometimesyouhearthebullet

deathlygristly:

fierceawakening:

prokopetz:

What y’all think ‘gifted child’ discourse is saying: I used to be special and now I’m not and that makes me sad.

What ‘gifted child’ discourse is ACTUALLY saying: The way many educational systems treat children who’ve been identified as ‘gifted’ is actively harmful in that it a. obliges kids to give up socialising with their same-age peers in favour of constantly courting the approval of adult ‘mentors’ who mostly don’t give a shit about them, b. demands that they tie their entire identity to a set of standards that’s not merely unsustainable, but intentionally so, because its unstated purpose is to weed out the ‘unworthy’ rather than to provide useful goals for self-improvement, and c. denies them opportunities to learn useful life skills in favour of training them up in an excruciatingly narrow academic skill-set that’s basically useless outside of an institutional career path that the vast majority of them will never be allowed to pursue.

What prokopetz thinks I’m saying: I miss being elite

What I’m ACTUALLY saying: you’re telling the disabled misfit most people hated that calling her smart was bad for her. does a modern day version of her get any compliments at all now or nah

What middle class people on the internet think I’m saying when I bring up giftedness: Hi, I’m an arrogant narcissist and my mother trained me with flash cards and used me as an extension of herself and also she didn’t want me in the same classroom with kids who weren’t white and rich, and I think I’m special and smarter and better than everyone.

What I’m actually saying: I grew up and still am working class, my mother didn’t have the resources and knowledge and social capital of a middle class mother and she never advocated for me and she was never pushy about me at school, she certainly didn’t pressure me and train me with flash cards, and my brain works differently than normal and some of the differences fit into a pattern that our society calls “gifted” and that doesn’t mean that I’m better or worth more than anyone else. Different is different, not better or worse.

I think that the middle class experience of growing up with the gifted label is extremely different from the working class experience, and that causes a ton of communication problems.

Really though even within the same group, people can have very different experiences based on their parents, their schools, the culture of their particular area, their personality, their circumstances, etc. And then we universalize our experiences and assume that’s how it was for everyone and we start yelling at people as soon as they mention the word, without thinking about how their experience was probably vastly different from ours.