/lit/ - Literature

>>13838532
>The Denial of Death is a 1973 work of psychology and philosophy by Ernest Becker, in which the author builds on the works of Soren Kierkegaard, Sigmund Freud, Norman O. Brown and Otto Rank

>Woman starts voicing her opinions near me

>tfw I can remember when Herodotus was boring to me
>tfw I can't remember how I ever thought that
>tfw realizing I used to be a massive irredeemable pleb
>tfw realizing my brain used to be like an ADD junkie or a 4 year old child that wants to eat dessert for every meal

>>7969316

>reading AHR or something of the same calibre
>actually respectable periodicals
>tfw stumbling across those SJW articles they shuffle through peer review to seem like they're trendy and hip with the times
>tfw reading an article written by some chick about women in the women's womanporium in womany woman woman women women's women woman
>tfw it goes fucking nowhere and comes to no meaningful conclusions
>tfw it just regurgitates secondary source literature everyone is familiar with
>tfw it tries to act all transgressive and put on airs of challenging the status quo by using 35,000 concessive clauses that don't actually refute the status quo belief referenced
>tfw the first few pages' footnotes are filled with vague single citation allusions to a pissant book called 'Women's Womaning in Womania: Womany Women in Merovingian France or Something' by yet another chick author
>tfw seriously trying to establish the methodological framework of the article's analysis with a single fucking citation to some bizarre literally who publication
>tfw everyone acts like the article is a real thing and congratulates the functionary piece of shit who wrote it for being a proud womyn who bravely explores women's woman issues in a manocentric mansplaining manocracy
>tfw it's literally nothing
>tfw she'll be tenured before i am