IF I HAD AN INTERIOR DESIGN FIRM, I’D HIRE THESE WOMEN: After photos of U of Mississippi students’ room go viral, debate follows on just how fancy a student residence should be. Most criticism is from virtue-signalling Boomers, reminiscing about their own college days, natch.

Plus, from the comments:

What bothers critics isn’t that these students have decorated their dorm room, it’s the style they’ve chosen. If they had spent a similar amount of time and money to create an authentic copy of the Batcave, or Sherlock Holmes’s study, or Oscar Wilde’s student lodgings, everyone would be celebrating their inventiveness. If these students were from another country, and they’d created a miniature version of their environment back home, it would be a triumph of self-expression and diversity. If this exact room had been created by two burly football players, it would be an ironic delight. It’s not the luxury, or the time, or the expense that people are really reacting to — it’s the taste, which they see as bourgeois. That’s snobbish, unfair, and ultimately hypocritical.

Remember, bourgeois is the new transgressive!