Re: Night in the Woods, Part Four
Aug. 20th, 2019 06:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rynlingI was actually just thinking about how there’s a tendency in American culture to mock and stigmatize people who drop out of college, either temporarily or permanently, as well as people who take more than four years to finish an undergraduate degree. My thoughts were essentially that this tendency makes no sense. It makes even less sense when it’s espoused by university administration, which institutionalizes this sort of discrimination in a way that’s illogical and completely unnecessary.
Along the same lines, a major component of The Bad Tumblr Discourse of 2018 was mocking and stigmatizing “adults” in fandom, with an “adult” being someone over the age of 21. This was partially a result of some sort of ridiculous ship war in the Voltron fandom, but I think it's also connected to the broader idea that everyone should be at a certain predetermined place at a certain point in their lives. According to this argument, you shouldn’t be messing around on Tumblr if you’re over 21; you should be paying taxes and raising children, or whatever it is that “adults” do.
This insistence on following a set path in order to ensure maximum productivity strikes me as a uniquely American mindset, and I wish we had a more widespread cultural understanding that it’s totally normal for the lives of different people to develop in different directions and at different paces.
If nothing else, in its sympathetic portrayal of Mae, Night in the Woods is an important step in a saner and healthier direction.
Uhhhh yeah so that’s my soapbox speech for today, thanks for reading. Idk, this game gives me feelings.
Along the same lines, a major component of The Bad Tumblr Discourse of 2018 was mocking and stigmatizing “adults” in fandom, with an “adult” being someone over the age of 21. This was partially a result of some sort of ridiculous ship war in the Voltron fandom, but I think it's also connected to the broader idea that everyone should be at a certain predetermined place at a certain point in their lives. According to this argument, you shouldn’t be messing around on Tumblr if you’re over 21; you should be paying taxes and raising children, or whatever it is that “adults” do.
This insistence on following a set path in order to ensure maximum productivity strikes me as a uniquely American mindset, and I wish we had a more widespread cultural understanding that it’s totally normal for the lives of different people to develop in different directions and at different paces.
If nothing else, in its sympathetic portrayal of Mae, Night in the Woods is an important step in a saner and healthier direction.
Uhhhh yeah so that’s my soapbox speech for today, thanks for reading. Idk, this game gives me feelings.
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Date: 2019-08-21 01:30 am (UTC)....sandboxing here too, but yeah. The exceptionalism of America is so bad.