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I still think her response is a bit shitty…
Why do you need to be “qualified” to talk about a character arc??
Like, it’s not some obscure term that only film critics know or something only they get to have an opinion on… Seems like some unnecessary gatekeeping.
It's Twitter so everyone is required to be unnecessarily rude
Yeah I had Twitter for all of 20 minutes until I realized that it was all just pure vitriol. I deleted Facebook because I thought it was too bitchy. Twitter was another beast entirely.
You mean X?
stop trying to make X happen, gretchen
It's not going to happen
I don't care if x happens because Twitter/x is cesspool
It says "Twitter" right in the screenshot
Oh they recently decided to change the name to X for some reason.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/twitter-rebrand-x-name-change-elon-musk-what-it-means/
She may just be pointing out how buzzwords seem to explode throughout the internet, like when someone mentioned boiling a frog in a pot and now someone shares that exact metaphor in every 1 in 4 threads.
And it isn't even true.
It's usually true about what it's being used as a metaphor for, though. A metaphor doesn't have to be literally true. It just has to make sense.
Like pull yourself up by the boot straps. No one's dumb enough to think it only means "help yourself", right?!
Actually the bootstraps one is a good example of the general public missing the point entirely. Originally, the phrase was used to describe something impossible, and was repeatedly used sarcastically to describe an inherently unjust economic system that makes upward mobility impossible.
Yep, and people still try to use it as a metaphor for something completely different. Just something that no longer makes logical sense all on its own.
What's not true, exactly?
A frog will jump out of a pot of water before its hot enough to kill it.
I think maybe you're not understanding the concept of a metaphor.
I understand metaphors just fine.
"Lightning never strikes the same place twice" is a metaphor that people think is true too, doesn't mean we can't use it.
You're only allowed to discuss topics you have PhD on.
We need to wall off all discussion about all topics to certified experts because democracy works best when no one understands how anything works.
I mean if we're talking about vaccines that could be considered a legitimate point. But we're talking about art.
I know you're being sarcastic but still
Fair point, though I hated how that extended into political questions of vaccines from purely technical ones too often.
My personal view on the internet is that anyone writing in internet is potentially a lobotomized honey melon and not take shit as facts the instant reading it
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It was an attempted ad hominem attack which backfired on her. A stupid argument in the first place and even more stupid because she got it wrong.
I'd go much further, unless you're citing yourself as a primary source for a fact, citing your credentials isnt very impressive to me.
Ideas matter - the dumbest SOB can come up with great ideas, and the smartest one can come up with dumb ones. And job experience most definitely doesn't make your opinion valuable - I've seen way too many people bad at their jobs for that