Pumpkin Person rating: 7.5/10
So after the absurd rumor that this show was about me, I decided to watch it.
The only thing this show has in common with me is that it’s narrated by a popular sassy blogger but while I blog about evolutionary psychology and horror, Gossip Girl blogs about teenagers attending an exclusive prep school on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.
This is the perfect show for Lion of the Blogosphere to blog about because it’s all about New York’s super upper class and the importance they place in getting into an Ivy League school, but not just any Ivy League school, the “holy trinity”: Harvard, Princeton, and Yale. Lion could simply stream the whole series on Netflix.
The show’s female villain, the manipulative scheming spoiled Blair Waldorf is obsessed with getting into Yale and scores a 2200 out of 2400 on her SATs which by my formula equates to a Richard Nixon IQ of 145 (U.S. norms); 143 (white norms).
The show’s male villain, Chuck Bass (the son of a corrupt billionaire) simply hires some bookish boy to pretend to be him and write the SAT with a fake ID in Chuck’s name (even though being black, the bookish boy looks nothing like Chuck)
Chuck does the same for his stepsister, the show’s star Serena van der Woodsen, played by the extremely charismatic Blake Lively.
Serena is too low on psychopathy to use the SAT score Chuck bought for her so decides to take the big bad test herself at a later date. We’re never told how she scores, but Yale does send her a hand written letter asking her to visit the campus, but this has more to do with her celebrity status as a a New York socialite than her academic record.
We never see Gossip Girl but her mischievous voice narrates every episode with oneliners such as “Lordy, Lordy, look who’s 40” when one of the teenage boys is dating a much older woman.
The show seems to be aimed primarily at teenagers, especially teenage girls, but since teenage girls sometimes watch TV with their moms, there are some subplots about the romances of the parents of the show’s teenagers.
“And who am I?” teases Gossip Girl at the start of every show. “That’s one secret I’ll never tell” Maybe the secret was revealed in the show’s final season but please place a spoiler alert if you’ve watched that far.
Each show ends with Gossip Girl saying “you know you love me, XOXO”
Pumpkin Person 
What kind of school did you go to and what kind of job do you have with your 135 IQ Pumpkin?
Since verbal is resistant to comorbidity I was told that the reason my working memory and processing speed invalidates my true IQ. Because of my schizoaffective disorder.
mental illness can lower IQ by 10 points. So mine would be affected. (not verbal)
processing speed
take in information and do something with it (slow or fast)
I try to do thinking, nothing much happens.
Frustrating.
Can’t play video games fast.
Have to pause a lot.
I don’t feel functional 5 out of 7 days a week.
You know the show has a jewish producer or writer when the guy he hired to fake the SAT for him is black.
Maybe, but our very own black national merit finalist G-man could have been hired to write SATs for people.
Hahaha.
g-man has never taken the SAT. she’s a canadian.
You guys are mean.
I’ve shown parts of my face but I can show dick pics if that’ll help prove my blackness/maleness.
just post a picture of the back of your hand with “peepee’s blog” written on it with a ballpoint pen.
peepee won’t let you, because you don’t exist.
this comment will not be posted for obvious reasons.
(((Josh Schwartz, Stephanie Savage, Joshua Safran)))
Are those the writers?
Makes sense.
I would be too tall to take someone place at any exam, people would check the height !
when oprah dies 90% of people will be happy. 10% of people will be sad. gay men and black women will be sad.
You underestimate Oprah’s HUGE following among sexy straight WHITE WOMEN, the crown jewel of the white race. Black women & gay men are her most loyal fans, but the core of her fan base was white women.
but you said you were a hybrid. then you said you were a white man and that you broke up with your girlfriend. now you’re saying you’re a sexy non-lesbian white woman?
men of all races dump their fiancee, not whites only
the crown jewel of the white race lol. i would say that argument could stand for high-class white women, but…
The “Catch Me Outside” girl is now a successful rapper. It just go shows you that being at the right place at the right time is essential to becoming successful in anything. Same goes for Oprah.
As for white women being the crown jewel of the white race, that is the truest thing I’ve heard in quite awhile. It’s obvious that white women drive society, not the patriarchy, nothing else, just the sexual control of white women. They’re desired by men of every race, and I feel like most actions are driven to attract the attention of women in the first place, especially white women.
I dont think blacks even watch oprah to be honest. OPrah appeals to people who like magic negroes.
you know even less about black people than you do about rich people.
LOL
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Zipf’s law states that given some corpus of natural language utterances, the frequency of any word is inversely proportional to its rank in the frequency table. Thus the most frequent word will occur approximately twice as often as the second most frequent word, three times as often as the third most frequent word, etc.: the rank-frequency distribution is an inverse relation.
why is this not unexpected?
What does everyone think of Rawls’ veil of ignorance?