Gayatri Spivak, scratching her head, standing over a whiteboard with the following crossed-out text:
Can the Subaltern Sit?
Can the Subaltern Meme?
Can the Subaltern Golf?
Can the Subaltern Cook?
Can the Subaltern Taste?

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Gayatri Spivak, scratching her head, standing over a whiteboard with the following crossed-out text:
Can the Subaltern Sit?
Can the Subaltern Meme?
Can the Subaltern Golf?
Can the Subaltern Cook?
Can the Subaltern Taste?
I can't find an example of the trope for the life of me but there's one i remember where Hemingway is coming up with a list of topics for a short story, ending up with "man tries to catch fish; fish too big", rejecting ideas like "man tries to eat hot dog; hot dog doesn't fit"
👍 1 Oh right so it's a general type of joke that alt-Gary Larson might use? I thought it was a riff on a specific Far Side comic haha
I really don't like how I can't like comments on cohost, it makes it hard to communicate tone while talking y'know