To think snobbery around the Kardashians is a bit pathetic?

[Notsuretoputit]

Just doing a rewatch of the series and was discussing it with a colleague. Sure enough another colleague pipes up with ‘I’ve never heard of them, don’t know who they are’.

He does know who they are. Whenever they’re mentioned someone always pretends not to know who they are or pretends to never have heard of them. Clearly they think it makes them hugely intelligent and superior.

AIBU to think this is annoying and if you don’t want to discuss a subject don’t join in the conversation?

You know he wanted you to think that he is above such lowbrow entertainment.

Fwiw I think the Kardashian/Jenners are a bunch of vacuous, manipulative, mean girls and I will be avoiding any and all promotion of them in my home.

I think it's absolutely fine to not acknowledge their existence. They are major scammers. But if you like them OP, that's all that matters.

Completely. They’re all I think about.

In fairness they do do both of these things.

You're going to hate my comment then, christ bad enough you watched it once but rewatching the Kardashians?!

To paraphrase Inigo Montoya, “I don’t think that word means what you think it means”

😂

Isnt Kim K studying to be a lawyer?

😆 are you not embarrassed with that comment?

While I don't have any affinity with them they are not 'thick as mince'. They are hugely successful, particularly Kylie

He didn’t say he didn’t know much about them.

If I claimed I’d never even heard of Russia it would be a bit odd.

So now he says he doesn’t know much about them, not that he’s never heard of them.

Don't they also do a load of charity work and speak up about social issues?

I mean I do think they've done more harm than good with their focus on 'beautification'.

Honestly couldn't pick them out in a line up. Heard of them. I know they like to look good and maybe do plastic surgery!! Height of my knowledge.

However "snobbery" goes both ways. A colleges who prided her self on being "an Essex girl" and liked for the only way Is Essex once pretended she didn't know who hitler was when he came up in conversation! Now that's ridiculous

Oh and Kim has passed the mini bar and works a lot in women's rights

OPs just said that he did say he's never heard of them...

And just to be clear, with everyone failing to read the OP properly in an ironic mad dash to say the Kardashians are thick, I couldn’t care less if people join my conversation to slag them off, criticise them etc. Would be happy with that discussion. It’s when they speak just to pretend they’ve never so much as heard of them.

If you're having a quiet chat with someone in a breakroom or outside of where people are working, I can see the argument of someone being rude for butting in and that they have a choice whether to listen or not. I can also see it rude and baffling to have had the 'I don't know who they are' conversation with the same person for ten years. That reminds me of teenagers I know who love to do it with people they've had a lot of drama.

If either the volume and/or place of the conversation is leading to people not getting much of a choice whether they listen in or not, then I can see that as also being rude and have less sympathy. The easiest way to stop that is to not bring it up where they are.

I do think it's a bit rude to presume people who've actually never heard of them must be 'very very sheltered'. With entertainment industries and media being as disconnected from each other as they are now, it's quite possible to be actively engaged in one part with little exposure to another. Comparing an American entertainment family, however big their businesses are, to a major country is a bit odd.

👍 agreed

Twice a day every day.

Yes it is disingenuous snobbery...and frankly, anyone who validates the Kardashians should be prepared to field some of that.
What he really means is, "Don't be so stupid.", but he's not allowed to say that outright so opts for the pass agg approach instead.
What of it?

Fuck me.

There was nothing to suggest that your comment was sarcastic. You’ve made a thread about being annoyed when someone says that they don’t know who the Kardashians are. So it would seem that you may not be a fan but actually someone who ‘lives for them’ as you put it

Yes, the kind who tell everyone who’ll listen they don’t have a TV - and then the watch it on their laptop.

I think the issue is getting mixed up here. It isn't about whether this guy likes the Kardashian's or not or whether he knows the ins and outs of their lives. It's about someone claiming not to have heard of something so that they can somehow feel superior or make someone else feel inferior to them.

Is it annoying when people claim not to have heard of something or someone that is a huge part of pop culture (whether we agree with it being such a part or not)? Yes it is.

Imagine if someone had said they'd never heard of Ronaldo, Harry Potter or ABBA? I'm into none of those things, but I know what they are.

When someone claims that they have never heard of something when they so blatantly have, it is very rarely to be nice and normally from a place of judgement.

🙄 Disingenuity. I’m sure you could work it out.