Why must we hate the things teen girls love? (2015)
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Jensen says that belittling
adults for reading
"Twilight" or other young
adult literature is
“connected to the idea that
work/creative pursuits with
an intent to reach teens or
children is feminine.” She
also points out that women
who write the genre are
frequently overlooked while
men are celebrated.
This article just seems like much ado about nothing, people make fun of everything that isn’t something they like. Seeing a bunch of girls screaming at a concert is a little scary. Going to an evangelical church makes me feel the same sort of creeped out feeling, when people engage in “worship” which consists of listening to music and swaying and crying and all this weird stuff. I think I’d get a lot more flak for busting out my old Eminem albums than I would if my sister busted out her old *NSYNC stuff.
Doesn‘t change the fact that most people who know her name also know that she‘s a woman though.
I suggest brushing up on basic logic to prevent these mistakes in the future.
In a market where authors like 'Suzanne Collins', 'Jean M. Auel' and 'Marion Zimmer Bradley' (who happen to be the first three somewhat recent female authors who popped up in my head) manage to sell millions of books without hiding the fact that they are women this 'explanation' sounds more than contrived. Women write books, this has been a thing since Hildegard von Bingen picked up her quill somewhere in the 1100's. The idea that people somehow shy away from female authors is preposterous - which is also why I suggested it may be a political statement.
I do wonder whether J.K. Rowling dressed up like a man and turned her voice to sound real low when she did readings from her books, when she appeared to receive the multitude of prizes she won for those books and for all those other occasions where she appeared in public.
It is not a new phenomenon for women writers to be taken a shade less seriously than their male counterparts.
This is pretty easy to verify.
https://www.cnn.com/2017/07/10/world/amanpour-j-k-rowling-in... > my publisher, who published Harry Potter, they said to me, we think this is a book that will appeal to boys and girls. And I said, oh, great. And they said, so could we use your initials? > Because, basically they were trying to disguise my gender.
She doesn't actually have a middle name, the K was just arbitrarily added to make a better initialism
Maybe the author thought that using initials sounded more mystical or authorative, more in keeping with the corpus of fantasy works.
Unless she's lying, the author tells what she thought in the previous quotation
> they were trying to disguise my gender.
Shopping has been tailored by very smart people to break down our psychological defenses, cause analysis paralysis, at which point we succumb to marketing and buy whatever has been had the most advertising dollars spent on it, thereby being emblazoned in our mind as what’s best regardless of its actual quality, because our brains aren’t well suited for the sheer number of choices we’re presented with while shopping.
Maybe “stupid” isn’t the right word for shopping or sports, but both of the modern versions of these things are designed to exploit and extract profit by manipulating built in human circuitry.
I think this is a more important part of it than the article does credit, this kind of feminized excitement is really stigmatized (hysteria)
In that regard, I don't see how the author can differentiate between "deliberate use of excitement and passion" vs "accidental use of excitement and passion" or whatever else is supposed to be the opposite of that.
Adding the gender angle to this feels kinder surplus, especially in the context how it's usually done in one direction. I'm pretty sure with a bit of time and effort one could write a similar piece about the culture of the "seduction community" and how their antics are just a manifestation of "community building and empathetic development" with their fellow peers.
No need to talk about objectification, after all, I didn't see it mentioned in this piece either, even tho it should be equally relevant.