fyeahenglishmajorarmadillo:

[Picture: Background — a six piece pie style colour split, alternating black and grey. Foreground — a picture of an armadillo. Top text: “ [WISH ARISTOTLE WAS ALIVE] ” Bottom text: “ [SO I COULD ARGUE WITH HIM ABOUT POETICS] ”]

fyeahenglishmajorarmadillo:

[Picture: Background — a six piece pie style colour split, alternating black and grey. Foreground — a picture of an armadillo. Top text: “500 Days of Summer is just a Graham Greene novel with more indie songs” Bottom text: “and less war, politics, religion, and post-colonialism.”]

Seriously, though, part of me wonders if the initial idea for this movie was to do a version of The End of the Affair set in modern-day Los Angeles.

Meh, still a good movie.

fyeahenglishmajorarmadillo:

[Picture: Background - a six piece pie style color split, alternating black and grey. Foreground - a picture of an armadillo. Top text: ” [AUTHOR USES “MERETRICIOUS] ” Bottom text: ” [ORGASM] “]

Or laugh hysterically at tawdry language.

fyeahenglishmajorarmadillo:

 [Picture: Background — a six piece pie style colour split, alternating black and grey. Foreground — a picture of an armadillo. Top text: “ [Forced to take a Intro to English Lit Class] ” Bottom text: “ [Do more teaching than learning] ”]

fyeahenglishmajorarmadillo:

[Picture: Background — a six piece pie style colour split, alternating black and grey. Foreground — a picture of an armadillo. Top text: “ Friends say they wish men were still chivalrous[] ” Bottom text: “ [Facepalm and try to explain why chivalry was terrible for women] ”]

Well, yes and no.  You’re correct in a performative sense, which assumes women “need” men to be chivalrous, thus recapitulating gender scrips on the basis of sex.  On the other hand, there is no meaning in the thought “men (sex not gender) should be chivalrous and women (sex not gender) subservient”.  A woman can be chivalrous just as much as a man when we pull apart the useless notion masculinity is synonymous with male as femininity is synonymous with female.  I see no issue with chivalry from that perspective.  If I want to hold to the door for people, I do, and I generally do just that.  I am, however, more apt to do such niceties for someone I feel a bond and attraction towards.  Just part of who I am as a person, not as a man.  If she doesn’t like it, that’s her problem.  I’m doing it because I enjoy it, not because she’s a she.  And I feel this is just as relevant in LGTB situations.  I also should probably state I’m androgynous, the mid-point between masculine and feminine.

fyeahenglishmajorarmadillo:

[Picture: Background — a six piece pie style colour split, alternating black and grey. Foreground — a picture of an armadillo. Top text: “ [TAKE A PHILOSOPHY CLASS] ” Bottom text: “ [GET ASKED TO LEAVE FOR INSISTING ON DECONSTRUCTING WESTERN THOUGHT] ”]

fyeahenglishmajorarmadillo:

[Picture: Background — a six piece pie style colour split, alternating black and grey. Foreground — a picture of an armadillo. Top text: “Prof thinks your essay is brilliant ” Bottom text: “Get a “B”]

fyeahenglishmajorarmadillo:

[Picture: Background — a six piece pie style colour split, alternating black and grey. Foreground — a picture of an armadillo. Top text: “ Bad grade in upper-level English course ” Bottom text: “ “I was taking it for the intrinsic value.” ”]