I will never stop being bitter about how in schools there’s a mandatory class called “English” (implying it’s teaching you how to communicate) whose purpose is to teach kids the “objectively correct” way to engage with art

and the “correct” way is specifically to analyze its symbolism. no other way is considered valid or correct, and even then you have to guess what the “correct” symbolism is. the art is also chosen for them and is often disturbing, but they’re forced to read it anyway

there are at least 9 different reasons why everything I just said is fucked up and wrong

and keep in mind that kids could be learning literally anything else instead of this

@kasdeya yep. it's telling that my preferred reading material — hell, even my own writing — is about as far removed from "English class" as works written in English can get

@kasdeya in Germany, I had to read pretty fucked up books in my German lessons as well. among which was an occult horror novel while I was inpatient at a psych clinic for 2-ish months. that was some BS