Well, I'm posting on the web so I think that falls within the realm of "talking with ebuds"... I'm a little more diplomatic talking to people face-to-face but whatever, but I'm not standing on a soapbox and I can be flippant on here and not care as much. I'm not causing any harm aside from being a little dismissive of things I disagree with on Saltw.net's forums. I'm not sure if I follow what you mean by "replecating the language used by proponents of oppression", but like I said I'm not so invested in this respect. You're right that I do think it's cute to be dismissive in a way that provokes angry responses or whatever, it's cathartic, but I'm not being a 'proponent of oppression' by any stretch of the imagination(well maybe it you want to stretch it into being "epistemologically oppressive" but then we're wading even further into the academic swamp of subaltern discourse). If that's where you have a problem then maybe we don't share the same sense of humor, at least be upfront about it being beside the point. I don't really care what people's intentions are cuz it's just a plea for acknowledgement, for people to 'think right', and that ain't my grumpy marxist bag.
 
I think what differentiates a platitude/pseudo-critique is that critique questions the object while a pseudo-critique assumes it as premise and in doing so precludes actual criticism. These pseudo-criticisms are actually recuperated and end up reinforcing the state of affairs in very real ways. Unions 'sit at the table' and are actively involved in the process of cutting salaries/benefits and laying people off, women and homosexuals now get the chance to kill and die on the front lines of wars, now we have multiracial cops and prison guards, etc. Great... Lets have a universally fair and unoffensive representation of everyone to be consumed as images holding our attentions between viagra and tampon commercials.

ugh god this makes me nauseous. everything sucks, just realize that, feel free to enjoy it who cares im gonna watch youtube videos of people pretending to pee in front of cops

lol

I've watched first 3 episodes of this show.  maybe i'm just not from a rich enough family or whatever to kind of appreciate a lot of the financial/first world problems.  the more social aspects etc. stuff is more interesting, but there isn't really any characters i like either, so that doesn't help.

Years later I see all this pretty differently. I dunno where or if Diet Coke is still alive but hey ya dick, how's it going, and thosepeople. I pretty much see where you guys were coming from back then. Looking over my old posts, I wasn't talking total shit, but I definitely get the exasperation and disinterest in this particular demographic. I've started thinking, for example, that feminism means different things to different classes of people. Some motherfuckers are talking about the principle of a tampon tax, some motherfuckers are talking about being forced into a lifetime of servitude and rape. There are degrees and priorities. I begin to see the frustrating stuff about that with a show like Girls, and by the way I stopped watching it in s3 cos it was too stupid by that point. 
 
Finally, I don't know if anyone is still here but hi!

Hai Jaime

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Years later I see all this pretty differently. I dunno where or if Diet Coke is still alive but hey ya dick, how's it going, and thosepeople. I pretty much see where you guys were coming from back then. Looking over my old posts, I wasn't talking total shit, but I definitely get the exasperation and disinterest in this particular demographic. I've started thinking, for example, that feminism means different things to different classes of people. Some motherfuckers are talking about the principle of a tampon tax, some motherfuckers are talking about being forced into a lifetime of servitude and rape. There are degrees and priorities. I begin to see the frustrating stuff about that with a show like Girls, and by the way I stopped watching it in s3 cos it was too stupid by that point. 
 
Finally, I don't know if anyone is still here but hi!

I mean yeah, and then there's the sort of middle-class take on feminism that the gamerverse so vehemently objects to
 
I think it was since we last talked that I moved to the wealthiest part of america for a job. I've still never watched girls because I'm afraid of how awful it might be, but yeah, they're rich kids? lots of pretty consistently irritating people in those ranks. it's like lack of adversity melted them into walking caricatures of regular people, and they just wanna contrive or buy these genuine experiences for themselves, maybe including being oppressed. ya ofc sexism and everything exists at all levels of society, but when u have kids of wealthy upper/upper-middle class families who get to just skate thru life, and then they start shitting on poor or middle-class kids for having entrenched regressive views like they can in any way relate to their lives, it sucks.
 
or maybe they're just so used to the lack of adversity that any advent of it in their world really cuts deep? the show probably covers this I guess.

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