[ SECRET POST #4973 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4973 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

It's difficult not to judge when you have people referring to Austen's literary legacy as "basic-ass chick flicks". I'm getting a lowkey Not Like Other Girls vibe from a lot of these comments

[(Anonymous)]

Weirdly, I get that vibe from the other side. You know, the one going basically "you're dumb if you don't like it and just don't understand the humour if you don't like it, unlike me, the cultured nerd".

[(Anonymous)]

No, that's definitely the wrong take. Shitting on chick flicks has been happening since time immemorial, and (wrongly) putting Austen's works under that umbrella is clearly intended to be scornful and dismissive. Not Like Other Girls is internalised misogyny at its heart; intellectual snobbery is something very different.

[(Anonymous)]

Shitting on chick flicks is hugely misogynistic in nature and by insisting that putting Austen's work in relation to it means it's dismissive and patronising is playing right into the misgynistic hate of chick flicks. And intellectual snobbery can be massively "not like the other girls" type internalised misogyny as well, because what else is "I read real smart literature, unlike those dumb chicks who don't get it"?

[(Anonymous)]

Because nobody said the people who "don't get it" (also not what I said) were women. You actually just assumed that on your own, which kind of proves my point. Intellectual snobbery is not inherently gendered, but Not Like Other Girls is.