#no? we're gonna assume Mr. 'Why do the poor not simply cut out the middleman and sell their excess babies to the aristocracy as food?'
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know those bear-proof trashcans at Yellowstone Nat’l Park? hard to design one that’ll keep out the smartest bears without hindering the dumbest tourists? deadpan sarcasm is like that.
#not me fuming over knee-jerk interpretations of a 290-year-old poem!#I wish I could say the joke in Jonathan Swift's 'The Lady's Dressing Room' is obvious with just a little critical thinking#I wish I could say the joke becomes obvious if one just... bothers to read the whole thing#but really neither of those should be your first hint to maybe not take the whole text at face value#your FIRST hint should have been 'BY JONATHAN FUCKING SWIFT'#Christ alive you don't think MAYBE just MAYBE if the 'Modest Proposal' guy wrote a gross poem it MIGHT be worth reading between the lines?#can't extend more than three seconds' benefit of the doubt to even consider the possibility?#no? we're gonna assume Mr. 'Why do the poor not simply cut out the middleman and sell their excess babies to the aristocracy as food?'#was being completely and totally 100% literal in his 'misogynist diatribe' about disgusting 18th century cosmetics?#the one where a fuckboy goes looking for sexy secrets in his crush's empty dressing room and puts his whole hand in her commode?#and then the poem's narrator scoffs at said fuckboy for acting all betrayed about it like it's a surprise that women poop?#THAT 'misogynist diatribe'?#nah you're right at surface level he was making fun of Celia I'm sure the last TWENTY-SIX LINES aren't important#The Lady's Dressing Room#writer shit#personal
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