Furious without any form of ventilation.

[sweetprince]

You know what? That's just unbelievable. I'm a smart girl. I get good grades, I wore a fucking gold tassle at my graduation, when I don't know something I look it up. Sometimes I have a hard time because my peers are intellectual giants. This is to be expected. Sometimes I struggle with myself because I set such high standards that I find I'm a continual disappointment.



Believe me, I'm the only one allowed to call me stupid to my face. I think this goes for anybody. Maybe that's ridiculous. Or maybe it's just my way of copping out and saying I'm not gonna stop calling George Bush and NM stupid fucking idiots. But you can bet, I would never say it to their faces. Maybe this makes me a large fucking hypocrite. But, honestly? No one EVER needs to hear that.

It's one thing to say that I'm acting stupid or being obtuse, it's something else to just knock my intelligence. Tell me "I read War and Peace and Das Kapital and can talk about Leviathan figures and that totally makes me smarter than you" and expect me not to flip the fuck out, to, furthermore, call me a child, well I'm sorry, but I think that makes you the big fucking moron who failed "basic practicalities of dealing with people"

And to rejoinder with "Why do you gotta argue?"--um, what the fuck? You think I'm just gonna blithely sit there and go, "yes, you're right I am a dumbass, how funny I never noticed"?

I hope you walk into a doorframe and someone laughs at you and calls you a retard.

Comments

[lemmealone.livejournal.com]

1) Reading War and Peace doesn't make you intelligent. It makes you really, really bored.

2) Stupid is (IMO) the worst insult you can fling at someone, and it's a favourite of people who fancy themselves members of the intelligentsia.

3) It's entirely possible I spelled 'intelligentsia' wrong.

#) What's a Leviathan figure?

5) Who cares?

6) You can write using complete sentences, punctuation and intelligible syntax, which automatically makes you brighter than eighty percent of the fucking population these days. *is bitter*

7) I have an extremely sensitive idiot trigger, and you haven't tripped it.

8) Morons who say shit like that are the kinds of people who think IQ tests are a legitimate measure of intelligence.

9) I'm running out of things to say, but you get my point?

[dark-reaction.livejournal.com]

4) this really dumb Hobbesian idea--I only know this because he told me this as he was going on ad infinitum

6) No kidding, that's what No Child Left Behind gets you in this country. Although I would like to point out that they may be dying of aids like crazy and have the murder and assault rates of a small war torn african country, but Russia has a near perfect literacy rate.

7) ahah, I knew I wasn't dumb *shakes fist*

Thanks, you know, "it's really human of you to listen to all my bullshit!"--Sam, Sixteen Candles

[magikalrhiannon.livejournal.com]

Dude, I deal with stupid people on a daily basis (I work for social security - believe me, I know stupid, and it ain't stupid is as stupid does goddamnyou forrest gump!)... you are not stupid. And anyone who says you are, shows they are not as intelligent as they claim.

Furthermore, if you have to point out to people that your intelligence is far superior to someone else's because of the crap literature that you read, then you have absolutely no fucking idea of what intelligence is.

And expecting someone not to defend themselves once they've been called stupid just shows their intelligence is far more lacking than they are making out. Generally, people who fear they are less intelligent than they want to be strive to prove their intelligence by belittling others. These are the pathetic ameobas of academia and should be shot on spec. Mind you, those who are considered highly intelligent to the point of genius generally have an inability to communicate on an everyday level and usually have a social-intelligence deficiency. I guess it's nature's trade off. Maybe there's only so many areas one can excel at.

Oh and I completely agree on the points above made regarding your abilities with grammar and punctuation, not to mention your fantastic story-telling ability. (and on that note, are you going to continue Repeat It (Until You Get It Right)? Cuz I adore that story)

[dark-reaction.livejournal.com]

It's at the beta right now. But, considering the nature of my beta reader, I think it may stay there for awhile. Thank you for taking the time to agree with me.

[molotov-bitch.livejournal.com]

War & Peace /= Intelligence. War & Peace= cultural capital. Difference. Whilst it might be wise to invest in the latter, as it's very helpful socially, it means nothing unless you've actually understood the book and made your own insights. I expect this person didn't and just wants to show off.

[dark-reaction.livejournal.com]

Eh, my thoughts exactly. What I was more angry about was the fact that he was like, "you're childish for being insulted by my former statements about your puny intelligence, and as it is so puny, I suggest you STFU and stop trying to argue because I can't hear you over the sound of my own awesome."