The fish is in a barrel, but was it home-schooled?
Fanficrants again. And yet, not a single thought on yaoi in sight. Instead, we have emmabrock posting a review she got on a recent story of hers, as you do. However, the fanfic review -- the fandom for which is never even mentioned -- is really secondary to the real purpose of emmabrock's post, which is: Homeschooling!

The wank wastes no time, as emmabrock helpfully shares some of her, "ah, research," by which she means googling for homeschooling vs. publicschooling wankbait. Helpfully, she posts some of her results, which 'prove' that homeschoolers regard public-schoolers as barely one step above microbes.

So, are public-schoolers illiterate, drooling retards, or are home-schoolers surly, elitist, socially malformed trolls? Judging by some of the responses to emmabrock's post, I don't see why both can't be right:

vandonovan starts us off: Ironically, all the homeschooled kids I ever knew were so socially retarded they could barely function in normal society, and had no friends. Not because they liked classical music and not sex and Satan worshiping like the rest of us, but because they WERE JUST SOCIALLY RETARDED. And would talk too loud and make ridiculous jokes and had no idea how to interact with people. They also couldn't seem to hold jobs. I'd say they were exceptionally dumb, too, but maybe that was just perception.

elliemurray is not pleased: Being home schooled (yes, it's two words, like public schooled) makes you "socially retarded" and unable to hold down a job?

BULL SHIT. Public high schoolers are barely literate. They don't read. They sparknote everything. They're failing mathematics, and they don't care. They don't know how to read "magenta" or "cerulean", let alone spell it. They don't speak recognizable English, they need an expletive every three words to express themselves.

But they're clearly better than us poor, retarded, socially inept home schooled children, we can't hold jobs or interact with our peer group because we never leave the house. Thanks for letting me know that. I'll call up my boss and tell him I'm too dumb to hold down a job, right away.

singwithin calls troll, or at least wankbaiting: So you got a stupid review, that doesn't mean you need to find the weirdest quotes from the most weirdest homeschoolers you can find to prove that they are, in fact.. whatever it was you were trying to prove.

But apparently not without achieving the effect she intended: You know, I was going to tell you that you were overgeneralizing based on the comment of one reviewer and that this is not the place for this type of rant (it isn't), but the types of comments I have seen from a community that I usually find intelligent, reasonable and open-minded has shown me that you are right. Most homeschoolers apparantly do think that people who go to public schools are barely literate morons.


"Intelligent, reasonable, and open-minded?"

lawl.

Well, apparently the mods at least aren't open-minded enough, because emmabrock promptly gets banned for editing her post. And then unbanned a little later because she might not actually have edited her post, maybe. Oh, well, as long as we're clear on what we're doing and why.

Comments devolve into "My Thoughts On Education" on the second page off the FFR post with no new comment thread kerfluffles to show for it, but in the meantime the wank moves to a reaction post on fanficrantsrants, where people are shocked I say, just shocked irritated by the mod's overreaction.