Can’t believe I’m finally gonna have to give into being called Maude
07.03.2026 00:53
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Can’t believe I’m finally gonna have to give into being called Maude
Matilda means warrior woman, this is just the diminutive, why call a designed-for-male-gaze CGI-woman-avatar this name?
I am worried the name has some connotation I am unaware of. Like docility or something.
Why’s she got to be called Tilly though?
THIS IS BRAND NEW INFORMATION
She’s fine, I’m mildly concerned about her future drug intake though
Like, she is quite high
Watching my daughter get REALLY high with nox while they straightened her broken arm was honestly quite insane??
Yes! Although, given how bad Truss was I don’t know that that isn’t still true even WITH her being this dreadful
Yes, but Pratchett is the lowbrow access to the highbrow
…being annoyed with it because it doesn’t align with what she has now learned. Classics is highbrow brow, Percy Jackson is not.
You don’t need to know about the works of Stan Lee or Norse mythology - in fact Marvel is the access point at which you could, if you chose, develop an interest.
Like, for example, my daughter getting really into Greek mythology having read Percy Jackson and then coming back to Percy Jackson and…
Social workers, health visitors, charity workers… that’s the kind of people actually caught up in it (I mean, me obvs. It’s me)
*expense
Despite the fact that it’s actually more expensive to go to a west end musical
It’s less about expensive and more about accessibility, education and, obvs, class. In general musicals are lowbrow, and opera is highbrow (though they cost the same, as e.g. Gilbert & Sullivan are at the edge, they are very low brow for opera and very highbrow for musical).
Right, ok.
…don’t improve access as much as one would hope as people think “this is not for me, it’s too fancy”). I don’t feel at all trolled, fwiw. It just is highbrow.
Aesthetic superiority isn’t relevant to high or low culture. You can watch marvel at home for minimal cost. Attending the opera for 15 hours is a time and financial investment that limits access (and because its place in “highbrow” puts people off, things like access all arias from the ENO…
You and I may have a different understanding of the term highbrow however
I mean… it genuinely is part of the reason it is, the cultural density of the operas (the useful foreknowledge of Sigurd), the Tristan chord fascination, the mere fact you need 15 spare hours to sit through the ring cycle are all the sorts of things that contribute to Wagner as highbrow.
What I’m saying is when I take over and go full fash you’re getting a lot of this: youtu.be/uTQ2l4f8KEE
I mean, if you were gonna go Nazis you’d heavily lean into Carl Orff and Wagner wouldn’t you? Not this shit.
While I have other obvious objections to this, the most immediate one that comes to mind is…
Jesus Christ these people are so fucking… lowbrow.
Erm... maybe the Greens want to look into *why* he left Corbyn's office before celebrating this too much.
Over 160 schoolgirls are dead. Anthropic and Palantir executives must immediately testify and tell the public whether their AI is responsible.
How am I supposed to make cauliflower cheese...
You can't get comte, gruyere or emmental on the local Asda website?? What the actual fuck.
Yes! lol. 100%. But, kind of unbelievable really... just a very odd thing to have happened.
It was probs a bit stupid really!