See it doesn't have to be the best time of your life but you should make an effort to make it a great time! My experience has been so enriched by clubs and societies for example. At the end of my spring semester last year all my friends had gone home and my flight was booked a week after they'd left. Sraying home in my dorm made me miserable and stir crazy. I'm extroverted but at that point I was crying out for human connection lol.
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Posting this when her entire personality is a collection of fake hobbies, interests and affectations to impress social media and every inconsequential thing she does (or pretends to do) is only done so she can post it on social media for hollow praise or to sell a product she doesn't like or use.
This a day after she was moaning yet again how "we live in an AXTROVARRTED SOSOYATEE unfworetunately..." and only extroverts get all the breaks...in another undeclared ad for Misspah Teenah, recycling footage from a cushy paid modelling gig which she got by just dishonestly shilling fast fashion clothes from the comfort of her secluded manor home. After she got rich from sitting in her bedroom, avoiding society and pretending to be Emma Watson...
What a bleeping moron.
I think the best course of action for her is to leave the Internet. I don't mean she should be deplatformed but it isn't healthy for her to revolve her whole life around "aesthetics" and seeming a certain way. Real life is messy and nobody is the best at anything. Instead of being someone who enjoys reading casually, does well academically and likes Victorian history, the YouTube version of Ruby has to be someone who reads the MOST books and does the BEST in academics and knows more than ANYONE about the Victorians. And that's not a healthy way to be! Social media teaches you that you can't just enjoy something casually, it needs to be a cornerstone of your Online Identity. Ruby needs time away to experiment, explore, find who she is and what she actually wants to do. YouTube only helps to keep her in a bubble.
I actually hate how she added 'unfortunately' to her statement about living in an extroverted society. Firstly, I don't think its true. And second, why would it be 'unfortunate' if society was 'extroverted'? She doesn't actually give reasons as to why it is 'unfortunate'. I seriously do not believe that 'extroversion' is given any kind of privilege over 'introversion'.
And yeah, the irony. As she sits there on her a in her bedroom, making bank out of putting herself on the internet forever, exploiting the consumerism model and pretending to care about the environment.
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Yes. She is part of the problem that she herself seems to constantly identify e.g social media teaching us to be perfect, performative and appearing a certain way etc
Absolutely. Couldn't agree more. Blatant hypocrisy by our Ms Bones.
She's not introverted, she's mentally ill. Introverts don't have anxiety attacks when spending time with people. I'm an introvert, I'm also shy and awkward and hate being the center of attention or having to speak in public. Those to me are different traits. My boyfriend is also an introvert but he's very charming to people, he's good at public speaking, and forms/maintains friendships easily. He just prefers to be on his own. My brother is an introvert but he's also super funny and charismatic and always makes people laugh.
There's plenty of introverts who are able to have careers where they have to meet a lot of people. I would say that most jobs require you to interact with other people. That's not society being bad, it would be impossible to accomplish most things without working with others.
Of course she feels like society isn't for her. Society is never gonna accommodate someone who can't leave her bedroom or socialize and refuses to act her age in any meaningful way. That doesn't mean that society isn't made for introverts or whatever.
There's plenty of introverts who are able to have careers where they have to meet a lot of people. I would say that most jobs require you to interact with other people. That's not society being bad, it would be impossible to accomplish most things without working with others.
Of course she feels like society isn't for her. Society is never gonna accommodate someone who can't leave her bedroom or socialize and refuses to act her age in any meaningful way. That doesn't mean that society isn't made for introverts or whatever.
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Exactly this. I’m introverted but I don’t take panic attacks from meeting with friends nor am I unnaturally attached to my parents. Most introverts are really independent people so it’s hilarious to me that Ruby claims to be one whilst simultaneously having the needs of a child. She’s so unstable within her self that she needs external validation through the forms of praise and achievement, she has no self confidence that comes from within. The only reason she resents living in an ‘extroverted world’ is because she has a ‘not like other girls attitude’ in the worst way possible, half her personality is based on the fact that she doesn’t like what other people like. That’s a very annoying person to be around and as such he has a difficult time finding friends.
I think your point about Ruby requiring validation from outside of herself is an excellent one. I wonder to what degree having had glowing validation from outside all her life has stunted her mental growth and adversely impacted upon her ability to move from child to adult. She seems stuck at 12/13 years of age. I think the reason for this might be is this was an age at which she felt most comfortable and happy in her world. She didn't have the pressure of external exams, she was probably performing very well at school, everyone in her world no doubt viewed her as very clever, she was the oldest child so academically in advance of her sibling, she didn't have any expectations placed upon her that form part of being an adult because she was a child and I have the feeling praise was heaped upon her from all sources. I think she continues to look for validation from out with because she never had to look for it from within. Without exams results for validation and all those around her singing her praises I think she is lost.
I'm sure there is a fee just for applying for an Oxford masters course (about £100 off the top of my head), and if you don't succeed I'm not sure if you get it refunded? Again, it shows how much money she has (and how she doesn't value it).
As if extroverts are bullying people to socialize
You never get a refund, even if you're not accepted or you are but decide not to study there.
That's what I thought tbh!
I nearly choked on my tea when I heard that. How can a person with an English literature degree claim that ALEXANDER POPE, of all people, the man who was the complete opposite of everything the Romantics were doing, one of the great CLASSICIST poets is, in fact, a Romantic poet? Ouch. WTF? Imagine her trying to say that in a university interview...Alexander Pope was one of the Romantics, according to RoobeeThey really don’t teach you a lot at AXA-tar, do they
I understand that reader response and one’s own personal reactions have a place in critical reading, but you can’t just straight up ignore historical context. She does that with every single one of these works. Someone in the comments even points out that she can’t very well criticise a bird book from 1797 for not having information on migratory patterns etc. that simply were not known at the time.
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That part of the course sounds like an absolute dream to a massive archive/ history of the book nerd like me!
"Yoo misunderstood me, I yohnly mannt that Alexander Pyope was quoyte a ryomantic parrson in janneral and was knyown for boiying flowers and chocolates for his syootors whan he wassn't wroyting pyoetry. Boht thankyou for your commant. x"
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Also, when she rambles on about Pope using ancient mythology in his works, like, girl, that's the whole point! Pope was a classicist, that was his thing, "to copy nature is to copy them", i.e. the ancient Greek and Roman poets. We had to read his An Essay On Criticism in our first semester of our B.A. English Lit degree, I'm surprised she obviously hasn't.
Yeah but Roobee never ”went through a Greek mythology stage” in her childhood, which according to her is the only way anyone could possibly know anything about it, so it’s entirely understandable she also can’t comprehend entire literary/philosophical movements centred around classicism. Except for Cicero, she skimmed through several pages of Cicero’s letters once to suck up to her thesis supervisor.
Me too. I was so confused. He's a neoclassical. Neoclassical....is kinda like the opposite to Romantics...I nearly choked on my tea when I heard that. How can a person with an English literature degree claim that ALEXANDER POPE, of all people, the man who was the complete opposite of everything the Romantics were doing, one of the great CLASSICIST poets is, in fact, a Romantic poet? Ouch. WTF? Imagine her trying to say that in a university interview...
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That part of the course sounds like an absolute dream to a massive archive/ history of the book nerd like me!
She's lost the plot lol
neo-classical, not classical, you're absolutely right. In my absolute rage and bafflement I forgot to add the "neo"
It's impossible to diagnose someone based solely on subjectively edited videos that they've made about themselves, but she's definitely not okay. I'm watching some of her really old videos and she was kind of an annoying and prissy kid but still seemed within a healthy range. And the whole family seemed to be doing better too. They threw parties, they had a houseful of guests, normal stuff. Now it just seems so bleak. I wonder what it's really like in that family. Is Ruby's unwellness casting a pall on the family or has a dysfunctional family contributed to Ruby's poor mental health?
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