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On Being Butthurt - by Elif Batuman - The Elif Life

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This started as a post about keeping a writing notebook, but at some point it ended up being about the concept of “butthurt,” which my instinct says to spell “butt-hurt,” but the OED says it’s one word. The post originally started like this: As I have mentioned elsewhere, one of my favorite parts of teaching is getting to go back to various aspects of writing pedagogy that made me demoralized when I was a student, and trying to find ways to make them re-moralizing for myself and others. For example, I have a memory from my youth that involves being depressed by multiple famous US-American essays about the necessity, for any writer, of “keeping a notebook.” They always made me feel bad. Although, in those days, I almost always had a journal or a diary going, it was more of a space for working through my feelings about things that happened, after the fact—in private, at some length—rather than for jotting down aspects of the human comedy that impressed me on the subway. Even now, I find

On Being Butthurt Writers' notebooks, "privilege," lugubriousness, and more Elif Batuman Oct 21, 2024 ∙ Paid 347 9 46 Share This started as a post about keeping a writing notebook, but at some point it ended up being about the concept of “butthurt,” which my instinct says to spell “butt-hurt,” but the OED says it’s one word . The post originally started like this: As I have mentioned elsewhere, one of my favorite parts of teaching is getting to go back to various aspects of writing pedagogy that made me demoralized when I was a student, and trying to find ways to make them re-moralizing for my

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