The Negative Meanings of Misogyny

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The article was roundly mocked and condemned even by critics that some people would call a kind of woke so it's not this wasn't like something that uh people celebrated aside from some you know like twitter people but it was the thing I hated in pop culture the most last year um yeah I will I will go on a limb and agree with you about how that's at least I don't think that it's unquantifiable like the to make a claim of misogyny but like that's such a shitty way to do it that's just terrible.

Our whole lives we’ve been frauds. We’re not exaggerating. Pretty much all we’ve ever done is try to create a certain impression of us in other people. Mostly to be liked or admired. This episode is a perfect example, Tamler pretending to be a cinephile (check out his four favorite pieces of 2019 “pop culture” in the first segment), David trying to connect with the people (Baby Yoda, Keanu Reeves etc.) – and of course what could be more fraudulent than a deep dive into a David Foster Wallace story, rhapsodizing over the endless sentences, the logical paradoxes, the seven-layer bean-dip of metacommentary (Jesus Christ I’m surprised there aren’t like eight footnotes in this episode description), and meanwhile the Partially Examined Life dudes refresh their overcast feeds and wonder through the tiny keyhole of themselves how David and Tamler have sunk so low that they’d ramble on about “Good Old Neon” like a couple of first year Comp-Lit grad students trying to impress that girl who works at the Cajun bakery.