Re: THE RANT THREAD!
I love how many still hold the idea that just because something is very old literature that it's more sophisticated. Never mind that it's chocked full of the same "toilet humor" at which they scoff, or that most of it was written at a time most people couldn't read so that narrows down the specific class for which it's meant, or even how that's simply proper writing form for the time. In their head people weren't "dirty-minded" because that ruins much of their worldview. Or, what I really suspect, they just can't understand what on earth they're reading so it has to be "smart".
*headdesk*
I love how many still hold the idea that just because something is very old literature that it's more sophisticated. Never mind that it's chocked full of the same "toilet humor" at which they scoff, or that most of it was written at a time most people couldn't read so that narrows down the specific class for which it's meant, or even how that's simply proper writing form for the time. In their head people weren't "dirty-minded" because that ruins much of their worldview. Or, what I really suspect, they just can't understand what on earth they're reading so it has to be "smart".
*headdesk*
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