I think my problem with criticisms of the term "middlebrow" is that in my own imagination the word means "does nothing whatsoever to indicate that marginalized people can be protagonists"
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Like a cast entirely full of straight white abled people that is completely "culturally agnostic" (i.e., written in the kyriarchal cultural idiom of the "everyman") is by definition middlebrow in my mind
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Insofar as I've ever used the word, anyway, which is never
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I mean the very definition of something that "plays in Peoria" is that it is something sufficiently culturally broad to engage, specifically, white midwestern suburbanites, whose approval gets treated as the lodestar for whether or not something is "universal" or "esoteric"
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This is the kind of argument you can easily aim in any direction you want Sometimes people say subtracting diversity is just a way to thoughtlessly broaden something's appeal; just as often these days though they make that accusation about ADDING diversity
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"Diversity for diversity's sake just to get woke points", "filling the cast with tokens just to get that representation dollar", etc It's why I'm weary of the whole concept of "authenticity" vs "pandering" and try not to engage with it
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