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A Modest Proposal?

Must the primary sources be a text? genius.com/The-coup-the... The mixed media performance, aka music video, really brings another layer of complexity

Don't sleep on the Brontes as haters. I mean, everyone in Wuthering Heights; Lucy Snowe in Villette is a superb hater.

"A Letter From Your Mother" by Johanna Schopenhauer "Professional Widow" and "She's Your Cocaine" by Tori Amos Basically any episode of If Books Could Kill (they're all the same book) Andrea Long Chu's piece on Pamela Paul "There Is No Communism in Russia" by Emma Goldman

Theres the pitchfork review for car commercial rock band/one hit wonder Jet that just linked to a video of a chimp peeing in his own mouth. pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

Originally published as "Pond Scum," Kathryn Schulz's annihilation of Henry David Thoreau is outstanding: www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...

The Wind Done Gone!

This is maybe my favorite sick burn of history.

Hmm. I'm wondering if Richard Thompson's Outside of the Inside would count? It's a song from the perspective of a Hater (derogatory) making it clear how much Thompson hates (complimentary) the people it's about. (It's about the Taliban but before I knew that, I thought it was Evangelicals).

Are we talking about real-life haters, or fictional examples of haters? In the latter category you might want to include Montresor in Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado". He really doesn't like that Fortunato guy though he never details why

Dante's Inferno qualifies, I think

I think Chotiner interviews would fit

One of the best to ever do it

Changes by Tupac

Has anyone suggested The Dunciad yet?

You've got to get some Dorothy Parker in there.

for plays that explore the theme in a hilarious or transformative way: Chekhov’s The Proposal, Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing (1993 film adaptation with Denzel Washington and Emma Thompson), perhaps also Romeo and Juliet www.balallyplayers.com/productions/...

I used to wonder if Will Farrell's impressions of James Lipton ('The Actor's Studio') weren't inspired by "what if he secretly hates these actors and is mocking them". Big hater (complimentary) energy if that had been the case.

This thread is reminding me that I need to give BEEF another try.

I'm actually surprised A Christmas Carol hasn't come up. Scrooge is a prolific hater, both specific (toward Cratchit, Christmas, and his nephew), and general (basically everything else)

Amadeus (...then again, if you call this a classic work, I shall turn the eye of my hatred upon you, because, you know, I'm old enough to remember its release in theaters)

i agree with those who've suggested @ifbookspod.bsky.social, which is the podcast equivalent of a Journal Of Hater Studies. @michaelhobbes.bsky.social and @notalawyer.bsky.social are world class haters (complimentary)

imo it requires not just talking shit about something but really seeing it for what it is and hating it *for that*

Any of these would suffice but North and Deuce Bigalow, European Gigolo are classics www.rogerebert.com/roger-ebert/...

"To Adame, His Own Scriveyne" by Geoffrey Chaucer Robert Greene's 1592 Shakespeare review Pretty much any time Mark Twain mentioned Sir Walter Scott Hater Studies might be enough to get me back into grad school.

HL Menken’s “Prejudices” is an encyclopedia of both flavors of haterism.