Word: moronization
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...insults them - for their clothes, their pop-culture obsessiveness, their eating at Applebee's. It's sneering and unwatchably badly written; it shoots at fish in a barrel and still manages to miss. On NBC's My Name Is Earl, by comparison, Jaime Pressley's Joy may be a moron, but she's an interesting one, with a kind of admirably feral greed. Blair's Kim is just a cartoon idiot. ("It's over!" she declares about her marriage. "O-V-U-R!") If you can't even make your characters believably dumb, you've got problems, and while Shannon...
...opposed to an ostensibly comparable pursuit to his own. Sites like Sparknotes.com—another Harvard alum creation—and Cliffnotes.com have been around for nearly a decade, providing apathetic students a quick and easy 30-minute Idiot’s Guide to not sounding like a moron in class. But those sites are so...high-school...
...Japanese mafia. But celebrities, said Reiss, love the show. Even Paris Hilton, who was called a “moron” in one episode, sent the Simpsons crew a basket of cookies the next day—“proving, of course, that Paris Hilton is a moron.” But Reiss said he has become jaded by the heavy presence of celebrities at the Simpsons office. In fact, he joked that he has walked into the Emmy-winning show’s second-floor office to find wheelchair-bound theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking just sitting there?...
...Perhaps they have a case. Edward Dahlberg once observed that “What men most desire is a virgin who is a whore.” Harvard men seem to want a genius who is a moron. While Harvard women spent their high school careers trying not to intimidate too many men with their intellects, Harvard men spent theirs making women swoon with their massive, girthy arrays of knowledge. Arriving at Harvard demanded adjustment. For if Harvard men are not intimidated by Harvard women’s intellects, Harvard women are not excessively impressed by the intellects of Harvard...
...Because That Other Guy Is a Moron. Lists are a way of asserting authority. But they're also an invitation to challenge authority. Do people really enjoy reading a list they totally agree with? No! Good lists engage readers, enrage them and flatter their ability to think of better examples. A list isn't truly right unless it's a little bit wrong...