my kingdom for literary critics to stop conflating “I personally dislike the fundamentals of X genre and so have neither read nor desired to read widely in it” with “therefore the whole genre is badly-written by default, because obviously if the writing was good I WOULD like it”
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- which, of course, ends up having the *exact opposite effect* like, to be clear: it’s still good to push the boundaries of your taste and try new things! but to do that, you first need to be honest about what your existing taste is or isn’t
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