Chick #1: I gotta read this book for class, and I don’t want to.
Chick #2: Oh, I hate that [stuff]. I hate having to read [stuff] I hate.
Chick #1: I know I don’t want to read it. I don’t get the book, I don’t understand it — it’s stupid
Chick #2: What book you gotta read?
Chick #1: I don’t know, its called, like, Increasin’ Your Brain Power or something.
–E train
Maybe words and stuff wouldn’t be so intimidating if she’d grown up playing with the Leonardo da Vinci Action Figure. “Each figure comes with a paintbrush, an easel, a frame and some of his art and sketches to display.” (Via FunctionalAmbivalent, whose readers appear to have already bought this item out.)
Or spent more time in intellectually challenging activities like Reindeer Arm Wrestling. (Via dangerousmeta!.)