Excuse YOU
A couple of months ago I mentioned that I read a "fashion" blog by this Asian chippy in Boston. I don't remember how I found her blog and I don't know why it's still in my Bloglines b/c I really dislike the way she dresses and her writing style is really contrived and reeks of try-hard pretensions. Today, I was reminded of why I need to stop reading her "fashion" blog. Feast your eyes on this gem:
"How I longed to be a liberal arts student, if only to traipse about campus with a deflated shoulder bag or an emaciated knapsack... Sometimes, with fellow nerds, I'd even partake in some lighthearted scoffing of liberal arts students and their near-empty bags."
You see, little Ms. Important Pants over here is an ENGINEER and she is doing SMART things that she learns from a lot of BIG, HEAVY BOOKS. What are books, you ask? Don't look at me, I was a liberal arts student who skipped around campus w/nothing more than a hacky sack and a dog-eared Cliff's notes in my backpack! Nosiree, I ain't got time for dem books when I gots me plenty o' drum circles to attend to.
So I proceeded to comment on her blog with the following: "This was pretty rude and elitist of you, in my humble opinion."
I know, I was unusually classy and restrained for once.
She hasn't responded yet but another commenter after me offered this: "I was an art history major and I carried around a lit theory anthology, four textbooks, accompanying readers, and notebooks for each respective class. I not only lugged around a tortoise shell-like backpack, but also a large tote for library books that I used for research--at one point hording over sixty of them in my room (these books, mind you, had to be transported via bag/backpack to said room). The liberal arts majors I knew spent a lot of time with books--including time spent with books burdening our backs."
THANK YOU, MARISA!
And my friend Cheyanne on AIM protested her sentiments as well:
Cheyanne: OKAY
Cheyanne: listen biotch
Cheyanne: my literary theory book is over like 3000 pages
velcro sneakers: i was infuriated!
Cheyanne: and I had 6 other books for that one class
Cheyanne: and library books
velcro sneakers: exactly
Cheyanne: and when you're an english major..
Cheyanne: you're reading a shit ton of books
velcro sneakers: i hate hate hate smart people who are like this!
Cheyanne: all of the time
Cheyanne: often huge
Cheyanne: like my chaucer manual!
This blogger might think that she is being "cheeky" just like how she thinks she's "fashionable" but mocking someone else's education or intelligence just b/c they don't excel in the same areas as you or b/c they're not into the same things as you is just plain immature, snobby, and mean-spirited. So we're not all engineers, sorry. It doesn't mean you can pass judgment on others with your "fellow nerds" in order to cover up your own insecurities in a juvenile attempt to stroke each other's pathetic egos. And by the way, no real nerd would refer to him or herself as such. A real nerd doesn't need to flaunt this title nor would they use Nerdhood for evil.
Furthermore, you STILL look like you just escaped from an insane asylum. And no, I will not link you to her blog.
"How I longed to be a liberal arts student, if only to traipse about campus with a deflated shoulder bag or an emaciated knapsack... Sometimes, with fellow nerds, I'd even partake in some lighthearted scoffing of liberal arts students and their near-empty bags."
You see, little Ms. Important Pants over here is an ENGINEER and she is doing SMART things that she learns from a lot of BIG, HEAVY BOOKS. What are books, you ask? Don't look at me, I was a liberal arts student who skipped around campus w/nothing more than a hacky sack and a dog-eared Cliff's notes in my backpack! Nosiree, I ain't got time for dem books when I gots me plenty o' drum circles to attend to.
So I proceeded to comment on her blog with the following: "This was pretty rude and elitist of you, in my humble opinion."
I know, I was unusually classy and restrained for once.
She hasn't responded yet but another commenter after me offered this: "I was an art history major and I carried around a lit theory anthology, four textbooks, accompanying readers, and notebooks for each respective class. I not only lugged around a tortoise shell-like backpack, but also a large tote for library books that I used for research--at one point hording over sixty of them in my room (these books, mind you, had to be transported via bag/backpack to said room). The liberal arts majors I knew spent a lot of time with books--including time spent with books burdening our backs."
THANK YOU, MARISA!
And my friend Cheyanne on AIM protested her sentiments as well:
Cheyanne: OKAY
Cheyanne: listen biotch
Cheyanne: my literary theory book is over like 3000 pages
velcro sneakers: i was infuriated!
Cheyanne: and I had 6 other books for that one class
Cheyanne: and library books
velcro sneakers: exactly
Cheyanne: and when you're an english major..
Cheyanne: you're reading a shit ton of books
velcro sneakers: i hate hate hate smart people who are like this!
Cheyanne: all of the time
Cheyanne: often huge
Cheyanne: like my chaucer manual!
This blogger might think that she is being "cheeky" just like how she thinks she's "fashionable" but mocking someone else's education or intelligence just b/c they don't excel in the same areas as you or b/c they're not into the same things as you is just plain immature, snobby, and mean-spirited. So we're not all engineers, sorry. It doesn't mean you can pass judgment on others with your "fellow nerds" in order to cover up your own insecurities in a juvenile attempt to stroke each other's pathetic egos. And by the way, no real nerd would refer to him or herself as such. A real nerd doesn't need to flaunt this title nor would they use Nerdhood for evil.
Furthermore, you STILL look like you just escaped from an insane asylum. And no, I will not link you to her blog.