I think maybe you've misunderstood my use of self-deprecating in my original comment? I'm saying that it is different from being ashamed. To be self-deprecating -- to mock myself for liking things for moe reasons -- is not to be ashamed of the thing I enjoy. It just reflects my understanding that it is not objectively "better" for those qualities.
I like -- or liked -- romance novels. I object when people dismiss the genre as "cheesy" and "trashy," because those are terms they would never apply to any other genre, when all genres suffer from the same weaknesses of repetition and cliche and fan service. But I still see those weaknesses and can lovingly mock them myself. It's an insider/outsider division.
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Re: Un-twin D:
Date: 2011-05-12 04:11 pm (UTC)I like -- or liked -- romance novels. I object when people dismiss the genre as "cheesy" and "trashy," because those are terms they would never apply to any other genre, when all genres suffer from the same weaknesses of repetition and cliche and fan service. But I still see those weaknesses and can lovingly mock them myself. It's an insider/outsider division.
Clear as mud?