“They can't move on because they’re determined to see it through. Social psychologist Gena Cox calls it the “skin in the hate” game. You're unlikely to worry so much about Vanilla Ice's feelings.” In addition, you might become acutely aware of how much pain your mockery is causing Larry, and that can make you feel bad. “Larry-hating is unlikely to develop into a subculture in which you'll get to meet and communicate with lots of like-minded people. “But unlike Rupi Kaur, or Andrew Cuomo, there's just not all that many people who know Larry,” says Newman. So the very medium that has spawned Kaur’s fame has also spawned her community of haters-a community akin to a subculture in itself. But instead of hating on annoying Larry from your gym who only a few of your gym buddies would know of, the internet has opened up the possibility of sharing your hate for a bigger entity with way more people. It’s what helps us stick in groups, which is what has helped humans to survive and ultimately dominate. This hate, in a way, is wired into our system itself. Also, because they're constantly under the spotlight, we tend to be aware of their flaws.” “We might see them as being overrated we might suspect that much of their success is just due to luck. Newman, an associate professor of psychology at Syracuse University. “For all the acclaim that celebrities get, we often have ambivalent feelings toward them,” says Leonard S. This might simply have to do with her having made a cult-like following. “It was almost incel-like, you could see their misogyny clearly,” she says.” I don’t like her poetry myself, but I don’t use that to be misogynistic against her.”īut here’s the thing: This might not even be about Kaur being a good poet or a bad poet. Twitter user who goes by “no name” online noticed men leaving creepy remarks on her viral tweet on Kaur.

But it’s not uncommon to see memes and parodies on Rupi Kaur with misogynistic undertones-with some saying she would not have faced this if she were a white man. Kaur’s style has been made fun of, or at the very least, parodied, for so long that it’s hard to see any actual critique come through. Since then, the page is also being used as a platform to advocate for mental health, social and racial justice, and feminist issues. I was messing around with Instagram poetry one night and thought it would be fun to share with the world.” In a week, her page had 20,000 fans.

“I started the page on a whim one stoned night,” the anonymous woman running the page tells VICE from Montreal, Canada.

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