/lit/ - Literature

>>20205024
>>20205020
idk if I agree with that. I think its more “confident enough in a position (even ironically so) that you will transgress to do it/say it”.
I think its the confidence thats the key, not necissarily the transgression.
Like I could say
>you know, ice tea is kind of based
and of course there is exageration there, but I mean it (or dont if its ironic). Or
>Nah, weitgenstins based
I dont know his opinions on niggers or if he did anything transgressive, but I am confident in his shit.
So I think the confidence in a position is what primarily makes something based. transgression simply serves as a proof of that (that is to say, it survives social disaproval)

Or another way to put it is that its pretty hard for a lot of feminist stuff to be based (low hanging fruit I know, its an example). And its not that it isnt transgressive to something, it is, but its the fact that it needs to justify itself often in opostion to something. “girls can do it to!” it requires social affirmation rather than just being confident in its own nature.