/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.10899774]

Why is this simplistic, middle school, tumblr-tier, pretentious trash taken seriously?

[Anonymous No.10899804]

/lit/ basically repeats two threads over and over:

>guys, tell me why rupi kaur is popular
>guys, what do you think about jordan peterson?

[Anonymous No.10899858]

>>10899774
it's not

great thread tho, glad you could make this brainlet >>10899804 rage and I'm glad you killed whatever trash thread died for this one

[Anonymous No.10899865]

>>10899774
In what age do you think we live

[Anonymous No.10899886]

>>10899774
>tumblr-tier
It's literally tumblr poetry ya dip

>why is it taken seriously?
Is it?

[Anonymous No.10899893]

>>10899804
I think the Peterson meme has died down a lot lately, thank God.

[Anonymous No.10899987]

>>10899893
Actually it hadn't. There are multiple peterson threads each day, but they get taken down by the mods.

[Anonymous No.10899993]

>>10899987
Thank Mod, then.

[Anonymous No.10899996]

Someone recently linked a great article on instapoets here but I didn't save it

[Anonymous No.10900004]

>>10899886
...oh, wait, maybe it's literally Instagram poetry. I can't tell the difference tbph

[Anonymous No.10900007]

>>10899987
Well you know what they say Mods=Gods.

[Anonymous No.10900018]

>>10899996
https://thebaffler.com/latest/instapoetry-roberts

found it

[Anonymous No.10900325]

>>10899987
based mods

[Anonymous No.10900361]

>>10899804
Don't forget John Green

[Anonymous No.10900751]

>>10900018
Kaur BTFO

[Anonymous No.10900771]

No one takes her seriously except the fanbase you mentioned. But every day we hear about her here.

[Anonymous No.10900777]

>>10900361
please do

[Anonymous No.10900793]

>tfw mention peterson in a thread for ez (you)s from pre-ironic pseuds pretending there's actual viable discussion to be had on 4chan
derail a thread with ~1-3 posts, try it sometime

[Anonymous No.10900979]

>>10900018
decent article, if not lacking a more analytical perspective on the structure, or lack thereof, of her "works"

[Anonymous No.10901004]

>why is pop culture popular

[Anonymous No.10901029]

>>10901004
Pretty much this. Kaur is not an establishment poet or an academic poet she’s someone that makes easy poetry. Really I see nothing wrong with Kaur and she may end up getting people into other poetry.

[Anonymous No.10901047]

>>10899987
sounds like the mods are doing their goddamn jobs for once

[Anonymous No.10901068]

>>10899774
women

[Anonymous No.10901082]

The dominant view of poptimisim says we must take seriously anything targeted at teenage girls.

[Anonymous No.10901106]

>>10900979
>if not lacking
>or lack therof

[Anonymous No.10901165]

>>10901068
I can't wait until affirmative action leads to women becoming more involved and comfortable with literary tradition so they'll develop a fucking modicum of good taste.

[Anonymous No.10901398]

>>10899774
- ban '/lit/ roulette'
- ban peterson threads <- we are here
- ban rupi kaur threads
- ban polfags
- ban /b/ and reddit
- the board actually becomes usable

[Anonymous No.10902307]

>>10900793
I pity the ones that don't catch on.

[Anonymous No.10902323]

>>10899774
its not

[Anonymous No.10902377]

>>10901398
>ban polfags
>ban /b/ and reddit
>the board actually becomes usable
There won't be a board left

[Anonymous No.10902511]

>>10899774
Real reason is because she's young, female and not white
No need to look further

[Anonymous No.10903124]

>>10899858
he's not wrong tho

[Anonymous No.10903407]

>>10899804
And yet no one has written any Kaur/Peterson erotic literature.

[Anonymous No.10903437]

>>10901029
>getting people into other poetry.
they'll move onto other tumblr poetry, not Celan or Oppen

[Anonymous No.10903450]

fuck rupi kaur

[Anonymous No.10903453]

>>10899774
Who?

[Anonymous No.10903493]

If you got the chance to hatefuck Rupi Kaur, but only after an intensive two years of dating, would you do it?

Are you a bad enough dude to not get carried away on the affections of a terrible poet because you are so goddamned deprived of non-familial love?

Do you think you could bring yourself to use her like a rubber chicken and dump her out of a moving car after you've shared so many serendipitous moments, so many mediocre meals made memorable by not being alone?

[Anonymous No.10903733]

>>10903407
underrated

[Anonymous No.10903748]

>>10899774
(1) Modern feminism
(2) Modern political strategy
(3) The immense volume of brainlets which make up The Masses - most of whom do not read at, much less read good poetry
(4) It's short.

[Anonymous No.10903763]

My ex bought me this book because she thought I would like it and I didn't have the heart to tell her I thought it was trash.

[Anonymous No.10903804]

This is a discussion about the devaluation of literature and culture through universal literacy and huge accessibility of literature in a modern consumer market, and I think the conclusion is obvious. /lit/ should be above this populare shit, we should become aristocrats of the soul

[Anonymous No.10903811]

>>10899774
post ur own rupi kaurs

[Anonymous No.10903825]

>>10903450
Can I?

[Anonymous No.10904694]

>>10903811

[Anonymous No.10904736]

>>10902377
why not?
we have so much good content here everyday

[Anonymous No.10904740]

>>10902377
For you

[Anonymous No.10904741]

>>10903825
Yes, if you really want to take an antibiotic regimen.

[Anonymous No.10904770]

>>10900018
>Fidget spinner poetry” is produced quickly and consumed quickly. Within our increasingly frantic quotidian, and Instagram’s youthful metabolism
Damn, how can i become the metaphor-monster like the author of this?

[Anonymous No.10904817]

>>10903811
>ruby gloom
elite poast

[Anonymous No.10905477]

Shes literally tumblr as a person

[Anonymous No.10905493]

>>10905477
You're supposed to keep track of the days between your periods and wear a pad/tampon before it comes. It's not even hard to do. How apathetic and lazy do you have to be in order to let period blood stain your sheets? Who the fuck did she force to take that picture? Disgusting.

[Anonymous No.10906041]

>>10905493
it's probably fake blood on cheap sheets

[Anonymous No.10906075]

>>10904694

[Anonymous No.10906094]

>>10905493
The crazy kinds of feminists think that tampons are oppressive and that menstruation should be celebrated.

[Anonymous No.10906123]

i am similar to rupi kaur but want to write good poetry. wat do? i have never really experienced love or abuse from men so that wont be in my poetry but idk im very tumblr despite hating tumblr. im like a mix of r9k and tumblr.

[Anonymous No.10906131]

>>10899774
Because it sells. Rupi Kaur is likely a millionaire by now.

[Anonymous No.10906168]

>>10903811

[Anonymous No.10906178]

>>10906123
do the tide pod challenge and make a poem about it

[Anonymous No.10906260]

>>10905493
>You're supposed to keep track of the days between your periods and wear a pad/tampon before it comes. It's not even hard to do.

You can't wear a tampon before you start bleeding. It's a tube of cotton wool - put it in dry and it will stick and hurt and be extremely painful to take out. You can barely wear a tampon at the end of your period or on any other particularly light day. You are not supposed to wear them at night, ever.

A pad you could wear in anticipation with less discomfort, but given that periods almost never arrive 'on time' and there is usually a difference of a couple of days, sometimes even a week, this would still mean wearing a dry piece of cotton on your crotch for hours/days. It would rub your genitals and thighs raw.

However, there is also a 'liner' which is a very thin sanitary pad that lines your underwear and catches any excess blood from a pad or tampon. This you could wear in anticipation of your period and it wouldn't cause too much discomfort - allowing your clothes maybe a few hours of protection until the blood ran over.

However, consider the extra cost of this to add on top of the cost of your usual menstruation products and you can absolutely understand why a woman would rather go to bed as normal and then, if she wakes up with a bleed, just clean and wash her fucking pjs and sheets.

I think the reason people like Rupi Kaur, as terrible a poet and attention seeker she is, post things like this and get approval for it is precisely because of people like you - people who think they know what it's like to menstruate when they know jack shit. Getting a bit of blood on your sheets and pants is absolutely normal. For you to say it isnt is just putting fucking sheckles in her pockets, because you become her opposition.

[Anonymous No.10906273]

>>10906260
Why do women feel a need to share their periods with the world? This is a major problem that occurs in every single society throughout history and is probably one of the biggest reasons as to why women were actively suppressed throughout time.

[Anonymous No.10906293]

>>10906260
>people who think they know what it's like to menstruate when they know jack shit
I am literally female. Nice text wall about your oversensitive vagina though.

[Anonymous No.10906300]

>>10906293
>>10906260
sup ladies

[Anonymous No.10906310]

>>10906293
oh my apologies

maybe your vagina would be sensitive also if you didnt keep dry tampons up there for days at a time

[Anonymous No.10906312]

>Rupi Kaur thread
>devolves into women talking about their periods
>like poetry

[Anonymous No.10906336]

because she's fucking hot
I would stick my dick so far up her tight asspucci I would fuse with her insides like an anglerfish

[Anonymous No.10906340]

>>10906336
dawg she looks like 99% of non-fat girls with whore makeup, lets be real

[Anonymous No.10906345]

>>10906340
she's brown, not obese, and has thick eyebrows
that's three check marks that pretty much guarantees my dick will lust to inseminate her ass

[Anonymous No.10906349]

>>10906345
until you heard her speak

[Anonymous No.10906355]

>>10906349
not gonna lie tho id still fuck her too tho

[Anonymous No.10906356]

>>10906345
Your standards are low