#Josie and the pussycats/ Gidget/ the girl can't help it/ the colour of pomegranates

[lazzarella]

While I’m in a ranty mood:

Kind of over people making sweeping statements about how only young people or people who ~don't know better would think certain shows/movies/books/whatever are excellent. Everyone has different tastes and is looking for something different in what they watch or read—dismissing everyone who likes something you think is trash or puerile or whatever as not being mature or even intelligent enough is so obnoxious

Also, it's possible for people to engage with, and even enjoy, thematically complex and ~mature media and still rate highly media that either isn't or isn't perceived to be as complex or 'good' (whatever good means because there is no objectivity when it comes to ‘quality’ in art)

It's even possible to have spent years steeped in a particular genre and *still* enjoy something other people think is shallow or not the best example of it (ask me how I know lol)

Also this is not an anti-intellectual post to serve discouraging engaging with more complex and challenging media, just to say that assuming people who like media you think is shallow or whatever just 'don't know better' is silly and rude