Now that women are proving that they are the gender of fine culture, will Yea Forums finally quit it with the misogyny?

I asked my female friend recently how she doesn't get embarrassed by things like this, and she said she didn't understand what I meant. I said, doesn't it just seem to be undignified to constantly be going around loudly whining about how all of your failures are due to men trying to "keep you down" on the one hand, and then loudly proclaiming how great and #FIERCE you are on the other?

Like, regardless of any specific content, isn't it some fundamental rule of human dignity that people are always going to be incredulous by default whenever someone starts making excuses, and likewise, that you're not supposed to proclaim how rad you are, but wait for others to proclaim you rad first? Isn't it one of those unwritten basic norms of human socializing that we're supposed to suck it up when we fail, even if we COULD theoretically go "b-but that's not fair!," unless the unfairness is truly egregious? Isn't it one an unwritten expectation that we're supposed to wait for someone else to say "wow, this is amazing!" and then the proper thing to do is modestly reply "aw shucks, thanks!"

It's not that it's just arrogance either. Arrogance is a masculine trait and there's still something weirdly "respectable" about it, if it's merited. If a guy is cartoonishly self-aggrandizing and full of bluster, he is douchey in a way but it's still not as bad as what women are doing. There's an additional dimension to the woman thing, something specifically childlike and effeminate. It reminds me more of a 10 year old kid going "oh yeah well my MOM says I'm the coolest kid on the playground ;)" and you just feel bad for him, because his sense of reality has been warped and he thinks he's some kind of little prince but he's actually a 10 year old fag no one likes. That's not arrogance, that's sad, it's childlike naivete mixed with faggy "preening," it makes you want to beat the kid up. Men just aren't supposed to act that way. But that's the vibe women give off.

They always seem like an over the top parody to me. Like someone going "Look out world, 'cause here I come! I am one fierce bad bitch and I'm about to knock your socks off! Girl power!" Even if they had just won the Nobel fucking Prize for chemistry I'd still cringe at a deep, unconscious level over how effeminate and solipsistic that behavior is. There isn't a word strong enough for what it feels like. It's like that gay little fag 10 year old. I want to hoist him up by his gay little faggot suspenders and say "stop it! You're becoming a fag! The damage is almost irreparable!" But I can't do that with women because they're women, even though I'd really like to help them.

something, something, patriarchy

Female lit majors have to justify their shit degree somehow while men continually move away from the humanities.

Fanged Noumena
Zeroes and Ones
Cyborg Manifesto
SCUM
Sexual Personae

tl; dr

>female friend
>asked
Two strikes in the firs few words and I didn't read the rest.

Women have zero humility

Why do femoids have so much penis envy?

I was genuinely curious if she was aware of it, because part of my question is how more women don't get annoyed at the women doing this, for giving them a bad name.

It's almost like they're lacking theory of mind sometimes, I swear. That's part of what I mean by the childlike naivete. How can they not know that's just not "done?" It's the kind of thing that a kid does and you pat him on the head while knowingly laughing.

From another user

>A humanities degree has gone from "the thing you do because you're good at it" to "the thing every single young person should do if they can even barely afford it, and which rich people assume is as natural as high school"

>Go read what the university experience was like a century and a half ago in Europe, and compare it with the state of things now.

>Back then, some random 17 year old bourgeois homo would already have 10x the fundamentals and knowledge of a modern PhD student, because his public schooling was rigorous, and wasn't frilly shit for queers. He'd be writing or publishing precociously academic shit by 19, and entering one of the major universities, with a faculty of several hundred or maybe a thousand. He'd enter classes with some of the few luminaries in his discipline, he'd smell Theodor Mommsen's aftershave and bask in Niebuhr's ideas every morning. By 23 he'd be murdering himself to publish a 450-page monograph. By 25, he'd be a fully formed scholar, at the prime of his life, at the peak of his ideas, ready to apply all his manly energies to learning in an environment filled with other, similar people, and with the aforementioned luminaries. There was no dilution. The mental continuum was thick as fuck with big lumps of HEGEL everywhere.

>Now you are a 17 year old graduating from a prep high school that made you pretend to read selections of Nietzsche and Jane Austen for several years so your parents could feel like they are High Society for doling out $20,000/yr for it. You know absolutely nothing other than naive self-importance, and then Tumblr tells you that the fundamental metaphysics of reality is whining about brown people on the Internet, and that any philosophy which is whiny as fuck is de facto correct. Then you go to a university which spends more on ~Student Experience~ than academics, with 65,000 other moron students, being taught by 9000 nobody professors, most of whom are more feckless activist than academic. Everything is dumbed down and softened to the point that people who have been "studying" "Literature" for five years still can't tell you even the fuzziest outline of their discipline, their discipline's history, or even literature. PhD students in ELITE SEMINARS resemble a low-quality book club at best.

>There's no rigour, nobody has the most basic fundamentals in their own fields, and there are no set paths to take. You have access to zero genius mentors. You are completely ignorant of anything like a Western canon, you literally have no concept of real erudition. Even professors are hyperspecialised monkeys tending walled gardens.

>Mass society ate the university.

>Like, regardless of any specific content, isn't it some fundamental rule of human dignity that people are always going to be incredulous by default whenever someone starts making excuses, and likewise, that you're not supposed to proclaim how rad you are, but wait for others to proclaim you rad first? Isn't it one of those unwritten basic norms of human socializing that we're supposed to suck it up when we fail, even if we COULD theoretically go "b-but that's not fair!," unless the unfairness is truly egregious? Isn't it one an unwritten expectation that we're supposed to wait for someone else to say "wow, this is amazing!" and then the proper thing to do is modestly reply "aw shucks, thanks!"
that was the most masculine paragraph i have ever read. there's something inherently male in it that i cant quite discern, can any user help me out?

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penis_envy

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Ignoring best sellers lists, what are the best books by female authors from the past ten years?

It's about modesty, one of the many aspects absent in the modern female

I have no trouble accepting women as the more successful gender in literature. In fact I would say that women are naturally better suited than men to produce books which sell well. Men tend to be specialized, heterodox thinkers, who write philosophy books rather than bestseller novels.

The only reason women do it is because men are too emasculated to point out how retarded they are.

Werent many of the classics best sellers of their time as well?

Yes. Mass consumerist culture is always feminine.

>isn't it some fundamental rule of human dignity
No, it's a fundamental rule of male dignity. Women are different, they don't get such concepts, nor was there ever a need for them to follow these concepts.

Reading is a feminine hobby

Untrue for philosophy and poetry.

Since when is reading a hobby you prole

Yes and no. Shit never lasts. Rousseau wrote the best selling chick lit book of the 18th century and probably less than 10 people a year read it these days even though he remains arguably the most read and cited thinkers of the last 500 years.