This is an insult to psychology
Feb. 9th, 2012 07:00 pmI hate how a lot of people assume that Karkat got his psychologist-therapist skills from watching romcoms and thus is dubious. While loving romcoms do contribute, I want to remind everyone that Karkat grew up relatively sane, albeit with a bad temper. And had a relatively awesome dad. The branch of psychology that I believe in would rather attribute his psychology skills to a sane mind from a sane upbringing and the use of freakin' common sense, not "he watched romcoms so he liked to act like a therapist". And on top of the romcoms a source of information (romcoms being a cause), watching romcoms was probably the result of his personality to start with (romcoms being a consequence). He already liked the complexity of romance. Therefore he loved romcoms. Therefore he liked to act like a psychologist-therapist (and a shipper). And his analysis do make sense.