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you have to be kinder to people who are slow processors.

you have to be kinder to people who don't understand your jokes.

you have to be kinder to people who forget important dates.

you have to be kinder to people with cognitive decline.

you have to be kinder to people who were always this way, too.

me, typing away at my laptop: hi ru!

rupaul: what are you working on honey?

me: well, the assignment was to write an analysis of a movie from a film-philosophical perspective, so I’m writing about “Solaris” and using Jacques Rancière’s theory about cinema in the aesthetic regime, proposing that “Solaris” gives the viewer a different frame of reference to the concept of reality when compared to representationalist art of the 19th century!

rupaul: uh-hu I see. Well you’ve been criticized a lot on this show for not showing versatility and hiding behind the discourse of well-known authors. How do you plan to improve that if you’re going to basically apply Rancière’s theory to this film and not offer any unique insight of your own?

me: *the shade button sound plays as clips of me looking stupid are edited together to make it seem like i’m speechless*

rupaul: Well, it looks like you’ve got your work cut out for you. alright, get to work!

me, stammering: thank you ru..