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As an English teacher of primarily students who rarely like to read on their own, her books have influenced a ton of them to read/write poetry. So, uh, nah.

 

That’s awesome. I’m glad to hear it. I also think it’s great that a woman of color is getting so much attention in the literary world. I don’t want to take away from that despite how I personally feel, so I’ll shut my mouth about it.

 

As a poor man who graduated with a history degree after switching from English, who the fuck is Rupi Kaur?

 

Cursive is bullshit

 

what, you don't still use it every day? that's going on your permanent record /s

 

Tim Kasher seems pretty cool

 

See, this is something that is interesting about Rupi that I was talking about with my friend, a woman of color and an active poet, who feels that she’s “bad” for poetry. Despite her feelings towards Rupi, she acknowledged that her 13 year old self probably would have found enjoyment in the simplicity of her work. Obviously large groups of people seem to latch onto it, but I find it to be pretty vapid, just judging from the pieces I’ve read, mind you.

It’s somewhat ironic that I mention vapidity and then proceed to post a Buzzfeed article but I found this to be an interesting read.

The Problem With Rupi Kaur's Poetry

 

I feel like getting people into a certain art form is a different accomplishment than actually making good art.

Like, sure Linkin Park have gotten a lot of people into (good) music but that doesn’t inherently make their music of value.

 

I’ve seen from several WOC that she steals their shit so that’s why I don’t like her.

 

Red Hot Chili Peppers got me into music lol

 

They do have a few bangers. Bless ‘em.

 

Homie. When I was like 8 or whatever, I never thought I’d hear a more emotionally captivating song than Under The Bridge lol

 

Rupi Kaur - plagiarism accusations notwithstanding - is an ok poet but i'm glad for any path people use to follow art. that said, there are issues with how her poetry reduces South Asian female identity to something easily consumable for white Americans (this is a good write up), and there are woc poets of a much higher quality than she that i hope folks find through reading her.

 

poetry has been something that saved my life from the edge numerous times.

as for an opinion...
never cared about any racing games outside Mario Kart.

 

Months back it seemed like there was a bunch of backlash toward the simplicity of Kaur’s work - generally from snarky white Twitter personalities - and it just seemed shitty. The Buzzfeed piece above is a good read, and the plagiarism aspect is one that deserves to be explored.

Idk I don’t think she is exempt from criticism, but targeting a young WOC poet, who maybe a gateway for others, for the retweets and likes, just seems...gross

 

Same

Honestly I’m not a video game person at all. Never owned anything past the GameCube. I enjoy playing sports games and Mario related stuff but I don’t think I’ll ever drop money on a system

 

I still play this on my Sega regularly.

 

actually take it back... the Road Rash games were fun too.

 

The other day a kid asked me if I knew Sonic. I was like ...Sonic as in knuckles, tails, the whole gang?? And he was like "yes!!" And I could tell he thought I was awesome for knowing it and I felt rly cool and then I was like oh ur getting validation from a 4 yr old, the definition of not cool.

 

Damn there was an awesome Sonic game on GameCube and I can’t think of it. Rented that from Blockbuster a lot

 

oh knew as in are aware of the game, I read this as he thought you were friends with Sonic The Hedgehog

 

Well he asked me as if I knew him so at first I thought he was asking about an actual person. But then I used my detective work to sus out what he meant. I am fluent in the language of children. It is a gift and a curse!!

 

Road Rash was sick as hell and hilarious

Podracing master race tho

 

sonic is a great franchise even if half the games are terrible