I think some people are bad at reading through no real fault of their own. Then they feel, consciously or subconsciously, embarrassed and angry when they try.
I also think a lot about a woman I knew that was like “analysis is stupid. Sometimes a story is just a story!”, and that was very strange to me. I asked some more questions, and she said she hated how in school they were always reading and being told to find the secret meaning. I was like, your education failed you. The game isn’t find the meaning. The game is finding a meaning you can support in the text.
Like, Dracula can just be a book about a dude that bites people. But you can also look at it and be like “hmm so these women abandon their ‘motherly’ duties of raising children and staying in the home, and the only way to ‘fix’ them is for some men to hold her down and penetrate her with a big piece of wood? Hmmm”
But, also, you don’t have to think hard about everything you read. You don’t analyze every TV show, even though you could.
I think some people are bad at reading through no real fault of their own. Then they feel, consciously or subconsciously, embarrassed and angry when they try.
I also think a lot about a woman I knew that was like “analysis is stupid. Sometimes a story is just a story!”, and that was very strange to me. I asked some more questions, and she said she hated how in school they were always reading and being told to find the secret meaning. I was like, your education failed you. The game isn’t find the meaning. The game is finding a meaning you can support in the text.
Like, Dracula can just be a book about a dude that bites people. But you can also look at it and be like “hmm so these women abandon their ‘motherly’ duties of raising children and staying in the home, and the only way to ‘fix’ them is for some men to hold her down and penetrate her with a big piece of wood? Hmmm”
But, also, you don’t have to think hard about everything you read. You don’t analyze every TV show, even though you could.