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Ham-handed (but true) generalization: English majors are fruits. by laudablepuss 01/30/2003, 6:02pm PST
Bill Dungsroman wrote:

5. The only nugget I can wash out of your pathetic slag pile of a post is that you would like to write. So, why not become an English major for awhile, if not forever? It ain't any harder than what you're doing now, and it can't be any less interesting to you. You can go about a billion different ways if you start out as an English major.


I'm under the impression that taking English as your major is a great way to learn how to be an idiot who knows nothing about anything, least of all English. The stupidest college students I've ever met were all English majors. Call me a snob if you must, but these folks a) couldn't spell (nobody can, but c'mon, they're supposed to be studying English!), b) couldn't form a coherant paragraph, much less an essay, c) were capable of spewing forth the most amazing quantities of nonsense, and d) didn't know what deus ex machina is. Also, they were the folks who proclaimed that they never watched TV, or never read "white male literature" (was Shakespeare a member of the KKK? What about James Joyce?), and generally acted like assholes.

Not to say that other majors weren't full of stupid folks, too. Just that the purity of TEH STUPID in English majors was much higher. Creative writing, majors, on the other hand, aren't quite as bad. Although, despite the fact that you have to actually submit something you've written to the prof in order to get accepted, some people who's work I read apparently had never read a book or even a magazine in their lives. I'm not kidding. One guy in particular (my friend was a creative writing major and I got to read the work his class produced) was almost completely illiterate. I get angry just thinking about it. Other guys in that class who are probably writing stuff for the Atlantic or something by now.
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