I am confused as to why you need validation to your opinion that Watchmen is not good. Nothing you say to me, or what you site, it going to change the fact that I enjoyed the graphic novel as a piece of literature and that I enjoyed the movie as entertainment
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Oddly, I thought I was providing counterpoint here, not slapping signs and labels all over a subsegment of the culture
Literary criticism, which you should recognize from your schooling, I would hope, is a time honored criticism, and a part of our culture of discourse and knowledge. It is not helped, surely, by offhanded 140-char tweets about the book being deeply emo and in favor with the self mutilation crowd, but I can still suggest things about the relative value of the book. Or, if you'd prefer to not be challenged, you can filter me out and remain free from a viewpoint that largely differs from your own
I don't seek validation from you, Meg, your opinion on the matter is certainly welcome, but I'm not here for validation, rather to discuss the troubling deification of Moore's dystopian paranoia.
Oddly, I thought I was providing counterpoint here, not slapping signs and labels all over a subsegment of the cultureEven though you brush it off later in your reply, your tweet last night of "Frankly, anyone who loves that book for what it is, who read it after the age of 25? Needs to stop with the emo poems & cutting." makes it hard to take your criticism seriously. Your argument style makes it to be that anybody who disagrees with you is simply a whiney teenager who never grew up. This isn't high school debate team; you're not being award points for being a douchebag
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Literary criticism, which you should recognize from your schooling, I would hope, is a time honored criticism, and a part of our culture of discourse and knowledge. It is not helped, surely, by offhanded 140-char tweets about the book being deeply emo and in favor with the self mutilation crowd, but I can still suggest things about the relative value of the book. Or, if you'd prefer to not be challenged, you can filter me out and remain free from a viewpoint that largely differs from your own
I don't seek validation from you, Meg, your opinion on the matter is certainly welcome, but I'm not here for validation, rather to discuss the troubling deification of Moore's dystopian paranoia.
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