i think popular media culture is poisoned in the following ways:
- if you like something, people will make fun of you because you have admitted to experiencing a sincere emotion. this makes people defensive about what they like.
- if you don’t like something, people will take your opinion personally and attack you. this makes people feel like they have to have a very good reason to dislike something.
- people reach for reasons to like vs dislike things that are serious and often politically relevant so they can defend themselves from other opinion-havers.
- these positions mutually reinforce each other until it is assumed that any declaration of liking or disliking something is both personally and politically relevant by default.
- i am forced to look at this every time one of my fandom posts blows up.
(via tinsnip)
