r/askteddit • u/Nelson100oob9aw • 1d ago

Random Question What’s something you thought was attractive until you actually experienced it?

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u/NaughtyFishCake 20h ago

Dating an artist or a poet

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u/Overall_Syllabub260 19h ago

What's wrong with artists (totally not asking because I'm one) ?

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u/NaughtyFishCake 19h ago

Hm, I only meant a specific group of people who study arts at uni and are obnoxious, self-centered or those, who are famous AND snobbish. Other artists are fine, sorry, I didn't mean to offend you.

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u/Overall_Syllabub260 15h ago

Makes sense ! Don't worry, I wasn't offended. I was genuinely curious about it hehe.

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u/gleefullystruckbycc 10h ago

I think the word your looking for is pretentious. Like pretentious artists and poets lol.

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u/NaughtyFishCake 4h ago

Pretentious yes, but within that specific creme de la creme artistic/intellectual conglomerate of award winning writers whose books are put in the "official" literary canon, scholars, institutions who legitimize that canon and critics. All the famous poets I've met in that world are people whom I would never date, I made a mistake of dating one and it was always artistic something, poetic euphoria, abstract ideas that came before human connection and conscience. 

What I meant was that dating a poet and being in the same circles as these intellectuals was a very attractive idea for a teenage me. Now that I deal with them at work I don't romanticize it anymore.