kaijuslayer:

grettir-dun:

ariodante:

Sometimes I don’t think the people who constantly berate math understand how discouraging it is as a mathematician to constantly hear people mock your passion. Like any passionate person, I want to share my passion with others and tell them about the exciting thing I’m working on, but I can’t even open my mouth about math without someone ranting about how much “math sucks!”.

I’m trying to be passionate when all I hear is “Math is so boring!” “No one uses algebra!” “Screw math and anyone who enjoys it!” “As an artist, I naturally hate math!” (I’m an artist too, actually) 

Do people not realize how much it starts to wear on you? I’ve honestly considered dropping math so I wouldn’t have to deal with the stereotype that I’m uncreative and hate art and am practically the devil in the eyes of some people.

They can suck a dick. I’m a lit major and a language guy but MATH IS FUCKING COOL 

See, this is why people need to be more reflective and self-critical instead of criticizing math. I’m terrible at math. Anything more complicated than arithmetic generally ends in me sitting there scratching my head like a particularly stupid monkey. It doesn’t make me feel very good to be that unabashedly bad at something so fundamental, so I can understand the impulse to blame math, but the problem is my math-averse brain. 

It’s not math’s fault that I’m not cut out for math. It’s just a quirk of genetics and/or environment. I probably could’ve been at least passable at it if I hadn’t developed a near-phobia from timed tests as a child. So it goes. 

Some people are good at math. Thank fuck. Because without them, we’d be living in dubiously stable asymmetrical hovels instead of complaining about the lack of funding to the space program. (Fund the space program damn it!)

Some people are good at art. Or literature (yo). Or music. Or interpersonal dynamics. Or any other aspect of human existence. They don’t generally get as much vitriol as people who excel at math (except possibly history buffs), and it’s quite unfair. 

Some people are talented at a broad array of subjects that are often considered to be contradictory- mathematicians who are also artists as OP mentions, or people like Brian “Hurr bdurr it wasn’t enough to be one of the greatest guitarists around I also needed to be an astrophysicist” May (the talented fucker). Those people have my mingled admiration and jealousy. 

Anyway yeah- lit degree/history buff/writer/creative/humanities type here, but as @grettir-dun says, math is fucking cool.