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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGn9x4-Y_7A
new Lindsey Ellis on lit theory
I, for one, am excited.

>> No.12320699

>>12320621
Why should we take her seriously again?

>> No.12320704

>>12320699
She has large milkies

>> No.12320705

>>12320621
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKZTL5aMD00

>> No.12320710

>>12320621
She could at least learn what she's talking about before making a video.

>> No.12320716

>>12320710
she's actually well educated compared to most youtubers

>> No.12320720

>>12320621
Nothing will ever be as surreal as cutting to John Green holding Infinite Jest.

>> No.12320792
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what in the fuck

>> No.12320902

>>12320792
How dare you post this cursed image in my Mongolian image board.

>> No.12320914
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>>12320902
he's our guy now

>> No.12320926

>>12320621
God she's so thick. I just wanna tie her up and slap her around. Knowing how much it would piss her off just makes it hotter.

>> No.12321195

>>12320704
Do you or any other anons here know if girls enjoy when boys interact with their breasts? Do many girls enjoy the thought of a boy suckling from their breasts, and to take care of a boy by that manner?

>> No.12321205

>>12321195
Normally they do if they don't take any birth control.

>> No.12321212

>>12321195
well i'm a boy and i like it when people play with my nipples

so i can only assume that it is a universal pleasure.

>> No.12321216

>>12321195
My gf likes when I suck on her tits but unless ya girl is lactating you're not gonna get dem milkies

>> No.12321246

Again I don't really agree with her but I respect her for actually being able to articulate her points unlike most roasties who discuss similar things while talking in slang over 140 characters.

>> No.12321250

what is the fat cow saying now

>> No.12321252

>>12320699
We don't? Everyone here mocks her.

>> No.12321254
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Why do I want to lick Lindsay Ellis' asshole? I know how bad it would be. She's much fatter than she lets on in her videos. I know it would be terrible. I KNOW Lindsay Ellis has swamp ass. I know it. Yet I also know that I would sign an immutable contract to the effect that I must eat Lindsay Ellis' asshole or be destroyed. I know that my future self, in the time-stream, would rue my signing. I know that all of my hopes will be dashed the instant she hikes her fat chunky legs up onto her desk and I behold the dimpled cellulite of her thighs. I know that as I begin to approach her crotch and anus I will realize my mistake. I know that she will have swamp ass and it will smell unfeminine, and the task will become my prison, with no way out other than its completion. But I would sign that contract. I would sign it in my blood.

>>12321195
>mommyfag is on the scene

Let the descent into madness begin

>> No.12321256

>>12320621
i'm sure glad they injected lots of humor into this dense intellectual content

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>>12321195
based mommyposter

>> No.12321295

for such an old and short text the death of the author is so incredibly misread and misunderstood.

>> No.12322117

Lmao she's ageing so badly

>> No.12322224

>>12320621
Is this the one that murdered her unborn? Maybe she should do killing the child instead.
People like this are not, and should be completely exiled from regular society if we are to presume any order of morality.

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>>12320621
Daily reminder

>> No.12322522

Do people actually follow this bitch who weren't around for Channel Autism?

>> No.12322539

>>12322522
Why does he still call himself the 'Nostalgia Critic' if he reviews modern films

and how does that awful channel still get millions of views per video

>> No.12322557

>>12320621
>discusses complex literary and film theory
>only uses YA fiction and Transformers to get across her points
Has there ever been more of a waste of talent and intellect?

>> No.12322558

>>12322557
>Has there ever been more of a waste of talent and intellect?

Yes, me.

>> No.12322572

>>12320621
i detest people like this with my whole being

>> No.12322624

>>12322557
It's the awkward part of creating videos like this for mass consumption. Trash like Potter and John Green is the limit of exposure for a large portion of the audience, so concepts like this have to be explained using them.

A Fault in our Stars was a given anyway, as (I have no doubt due to a shared network or something similar) John Green was pretty prominently in the video and given a full third of the time to give his opinion.

>> No.12322644

>>12322517
We've all gone on benders

>> No.12322655
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>>12322517
qt drinky mommy

>> No.12323077

>>12320716
she is still really stupid and ignorant, also does questionable claims without any sources

>> No.12323844

>>12323077
claims like?

>> No.12323850

>>12322644
Speak for yourself, junkie.

>> No.12323869

>>12322655
hey! You're not me!
Although I do agree, so you're not damaging the Hibari-kun Avatarfag(tm) brand.

>> No.12323872

>>12321195
My ex-gf liked for me to twist her nipples really hard.

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>>12322117
>>12322557

>> No.12324248

>>12323916
Ellis is a prime example of what this shitty culture does to a person

She's very clever and you can tell a core part of her soul is "wanting to take life seriously and really serve the cause of morality," but she spent her entire youth and twenties being buffeted between one trendy artificial social cause ("look at me! I looove abortions!") and all the baggage that goes with being a woman (massively incommensurate attention and praise, making it impossible to discern actual feedback and engage with it in order to grow as a person).

There's a beautiful soul in there. She really does care about things and she's not mean-spirited. She deserves better than being yet another unwanted and unasked-for paragon of progressive ivory tower talking points ca. the mid-90s, as they're on their way out from the zeitgeist. Most of the shit she says is even correct, it's just that it's trivial. She's merely popularizing and preaching to choirs when she clearly wants to do more than that.

I wish she'd get a glimpse of a higher purpose or something, the higher postcolonialism and queer theory that makes all the pissant day-to-day postcolonialism and queer theory worth it in the end. She's too clever to subsist entirely on the latter, like many people do.

>> No.12324305

>>12324248
I totally agree with you and think it's the tragic fate of a lot of highly intelligent young women these days. I genuinely fear for what will happen to these women once this whole ivory tower charade collapses. Ironic how much the system ends up harming women despite claiming to empower them.

On another note, what are these "higher" queer theories and postcolonial theories you're talking about? I'd be interested in adding some to my reading list.

>> No.12324393

>>12324305
>Ironic how much the system ends up harming women
You conflate purposefulness with irony.

>> No.12324423

>>12324393
True. Hijacking and subverting feminism (and also I vil rights movements if we go beyond women) to turn it into the very thing it wanted to fight was probably one of the most clever tactics the establishment could have employed.

I suppose I must applaud them for being so successful in their manipulation, but it doesn't make it any less depressing.

>> No.12324431

I actually liked this video. I still hate John Green, but the whole thing was handled well. She even threw in a few roasts of his cringey writing

>> No.12324554

>>12321254
i like this post

>> No.12324583

>>12321254
where can I sign this contract

>> No.12324622

No really, name one thing wrong with this video

>> No.12324647

>>12324622
it was a thinly defense of reading works by "minorities" not because of their literary/artistic/philosophical/whatever merits but simply because they're written by "minorities". by stripping away their one selling point and redeeming quality (i.e. being written by "minorities"), no one would care about those inferior works. thus, the figure of the author has to be brought back simply to accommodate disposable works into the spurious "diverse" canon that's being forced on us.

>> No.12324656

>>12322557
>discusses complex literary and film theory
its literally literature 101 college bs

>> No.12324672

>>12324647
Wut. She never even mentioned a book by a minority. She mostly talks and the Fauly in our stars and Macbeth. And in highly positive context to.

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>>12324647
yep, I crunched the numbers; you never watched the video

>> No.12324816

Her Hobbit reviews are good, everything else I found to be trash except her Starscream lust which is a thing women have that confounds me to this day

>> No.12324876

>>12320621
Thank you god you posted a video where an airhead with a superficial understanding -- i.e. formed around her Wikipedia and prolly few JSTOR articles -- of DoA, but get this: she packaged in this super quirky 80s aesthetic to mask the fact that she does't really understand it.

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>>12324876
She analyzed how Barthe was more radical than Foucoult in terms of literary interpretation, I thought that was worthwhile.

>> No.12325081

>>12320914
A lot of bug people/lemmings read Infinite Jest in an effort to appear smarter than they are. I'm not exactly pretending to be a genius, but I can recognize a midwit when I see one.

>> No.12325095

>>12320621
>white writers BAD
>black womyn writers GOOD
Did I guess what happens in the video?

>> No.12325096

>>12325081
Doesn't he always say DFW is his favorite authour?

>> No.12325195

>>12325095
Not in the slightest.

>> No.12325209

>>12325064
Foucault wasn't even primarily concerned with literary interpretation. Even retards know that so she literally pointed out an obvious fact that you're taking as profound.

>> No.12325239

>>12324876
She's right about everything though.

>> No.12325254

>>12325195
30 minutes. We need a breakdown.

>> No.12325292

>>12325209
why are you so upset anon? no one said this was a profound video.

>> No.12325293

>>12320621
>professional YouTuber
Nope

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>>12320621
who cares?... bitch /thread

>> No.12325377

>>12325292
Fuck off, retard.

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>>12325209
He was very concerned with literary theory, but besides, wouldn't most retards assume Foucault would be more radical because they only watched memerson rather than actually read Foucault?

>> No.12325440

>>12325254
The first half is her outlining what the death of the author is with two examples to authors and their texts and the second half is a John Green interview.

>> No.12325467

>>12325440
>outlining what the death of the author
I know this already
>John Green interview
That's a yikes from me.

>> No.12325473

>>12325439
This is the photo that made me stop taking him seriously.

>> No.12325511

>>12320621
What a pleb, she obviously hasn't read Gadamer.

>> No.12325527

>>12325439
That's a myopic view of Foucault's interests and a disingenuous misrepresention of what I said.

>> No.12325529

>>12325096
Yet he still strongly believes in the very status quo bourgeois liberalism that DFW spent a lot of time making fun of

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>>12325527
It's not a video on Foucault, it's a video on literary theory, a field which was heavily influenced by postmodern theory. You sound like a pedantic brainlet tbqhwyf

>> No.12325583

>>12325568
Still you're being a disingenuous retard. As someone who has read everything by Foucsult, you're a fucking moron and should kill yourself, my man, because apparently this woman YouTuber knows more than you.

>> No.12325592

>>12325583
Not that anon, but just because you've read everything by Foucault doesn't mean you have understood what he was trying to say.

>> No.12325605

>>12325592
He's honestly not that hard of a theorist to understand. He's no Manuel DeLanda.

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>>12325583
>disingenuous
>Even retards know that Barthes' literary theory is far more radical than Foucault's.

>> No.12326149

>>12324248
>There's a beautiful soul in there. She really does care about things and she's not mean-spirited. She deserves better than being yet another unwanted and unasked-for paragon of progressive ivory tower talking points ca. the mid-90s, as they're on their way out from the zeitgeist. Most of the shit she says is even correct, it's just that it's trivial. She's merely popularizing and preaching to choirs when she clearly wants to do more than that.


>>12324876
>she packaged in this super quirky 80s aesthetic

Don't these two seem to conflict each other?

>>12322624
>It's the awkward part of creating videos like this for mass consumption. Trash like Potter and John Green is the limit of exposure for a large portion of the audience, so concepts like this have to be explained using them.

People whore themselves out in this economy. Go figure.

>> No.12326260

>>12320621

I feel like the last line of the video was their intent.