Fun fact I really dislike the âwell of COURSE I havenât read/watched/listened to [Thing I arbitrarily hate]â trend
Of course you donât have to engage with absolutely everything, and if you know somethingâs going to be triggering or just shitty those are both other great reasons not to consume that media.
However shit like âJohn Green books are all about Manic Pixie Dream Girls!!!â And âDisco/classic rock is trash and itâs all boring!!â Like my man you miss out on so much by categorically shitting on things without ever looking for something in that category you might like.
From experience? At different points I hated all of the above for no good reason. I got into classic rock when I started listening to Queen because itâs varied but largely goes OFF in a way that sets their music apart. After that I found a bunch of prog rock which is dug from a similar vein. I got into John Green books because I got into John and Hankâs other content first, not realizing who they were, and found that (even though I donât 100% agree with them on everything) I agreed with a lot of what they said. WAY more recently? Discoâs got some BOPS.
I was just told that John Green books are âstupid young girl thingsâ (love that misogyny) and I was a young nb who violently distanced themselves from feminity assosiated with their age group. Disco is vapid and slutty. Classic rock is outdated and only for boring pretenuous assholes.
This was a long post but please explore things you havenât dove into that much. Iâm still trying to fully learn this lesson but it really is more fun to investigate these things than it is to go straight to shitting on them.