{"id":66978,"date":"2024-07-21T01:00:17","date_gmt":"2024-07-21T05:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=66978"},"modified":"2024-07-20T09:23:42","modified_gmt":"2024-07-20T13:23:42","slug":"qotd-theres-no-recovery-mode-from-being-a-basic-college-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2024\/07\/21\/qotd-theres-no-recovery-mode-from-being-a-basic-college-girl\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: There&#8217;s no recovery mode from being a Basic College Girl"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; padding: 0px 0px 10px 25px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<p><em>Do you have any examples of BCGs recuperating?<\/em><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sadly, very few. Part of this is just in the nature of the biz \u2014 I don&#8217;t see too many former students out and about, since they all leave College Town for the big wide world \u2014 but I do know this: Scratch a Karen, find a BCG. In fact, you could go so far to say that &#8220;Karen&#8221; simply IS the BCG after she hits The Wall. The faster the impact, the bigger the Karen (this is a testable hypothesis \u2014 given that our gal Taylor Swift is currently impacting The Wall at about Mach 3, if I&#8217;m right, she&#8217;ll soon unleash the kraken of Karens on an unsuspecting world).<\/p>\n<p>I also strongly suspect that BCGs can&#8217;t recover. As any shrink will tell you, Narcissistic and Borderline Personality Disorders are almost impossible to treat. For one thing, treatment requires believing that you have a problem, and believing you <em>don&#8217;t<\/em> have a problem is pretty much diagnostic of those two syndromes. And while I&#8217;m not sure the BCG is clinically diagnosable with either of those, what they actually are is close enough that I&#8217;m betting whatever therapies &#8220;work&#8221; on actual clinical cases would &#8220;work&#8221; on them &#8230; but see above.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, I guess I can&#8217;t really blame the BCG for not realizing she&#8217;s got a problem, because she obviously <em>doesn&#8217;t<\/em> have a problem. Look around \u2014 society <em>rewards<\/em> this shit. AOC, for example, is going to be <em>La Presidenta por Vida de los Estados Unidos<\/em> here in a decade or so; if that&#8217;s a problem, I can&#8217;t really blame them for not fixing it. Eventually, of course, reality will intrude, and your BCG will be screaming for a real man to come save her &#8230; but, thanks to her BCG antics, there won&#8217;t <em>be<\/em> any real men around. Or, you know, we&#8217;ll all be in the OPFOR, so good luck with that, beeyatch.<\/p>\n<p>Severian, <!--<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rottenchestnuts.com\/friday-mailbag-grab-bag\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">-->&#8220;Friday Mailbag \/Grab Bag&#8221;, <em>Rotten Chestnuts<\/em>, 2021-06-25.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you have any examples of BCGs recuperating? Sadly, very few. Part of this is just in the nature of the biz \u2014 I don&#8217;t see too many former students out and about, since they all leave College Town for the big wide world \u2014 but I do know this: Scratch a Karen, find a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,66,41,13],"tags":[262,906,139,1462,764,43],"class_list":["post-66978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-health-science","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-culture","tag-mentalhealth","tag-psychology","tag-severian","tag-university","tag-women"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-hqi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66978"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90558,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66978\/revisions\/90558"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}