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>It's not as if everything that gets love from teenage girls is hated. E.g., they loved The Beatles and ABBA back in the day, and these are not hated, That's n

by jasode 6y ago

>It's not as if everything that gets love from teenage girls is hated. E.g., they loved The Beatles and ABBA back in the day, and these are not hated, That's not true. The Beatles were also hated in 1960s by the older generation that preferred the previous 1950s & 1940s artists such as Elvis, Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, etc. You can google for contemporaneous criticism of the time and you'll see plenty of examples such "rubbish ... tiresome..." : https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/01/rubbish-tiresome-whoa-yuk-the-beatles-early-haters/282784/ https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/01/ru... EDIT to reply: We're talking about things hated by the same generation here. The journalist of this article Laura Moss graduated from college 2005 so she was about ~25 -- so not a teenager -- when the Twilight movie came out in 2008. Also, she would have been in her ~30s when the music band One Direction was at their peak. In her text, she's referring to "teens" in the 3rd person and not talking about herself.

coldtea 6y ago
>That's not true. The Beatles were also hated in 1960s by the older generation Which is neither here, nor there. We're talking about things hated by the same generation here.
tgv 6y ago
The article is not about the generation gap. Older generations also hated Superman and Spiderman and Star Wars. While people may have mocked the emotion surrounding the breaking up of the Beatles (something conspicuously absent when ABBA called it a day), their music was shared by many, and still is. It's simply not true that > "Because once teenage girls start liking something, it's over." > "We hate everything they love, on principle." The entire article's tenet is: it's because they are women. Why it doesn't extend to other age groups? No explanation. And the idea that Twilight simply is garbage never even comes up. At best it's playing the victim, or pushing cultural relativism, at worst it's an attempt at driving the political division deeper.

by jasode 6y ago

coldtea 6y ago

>That's not true. The Beatles were also hated in 1960s by the older generation Which is neither here, nor there. We're talking about things hated by the same generation here.

tgv 6y ago

The article is not about the generation gap. Older generations also hated Superman and Spiderman and Star Wars. While people may have mocked the emotion surrounding the breaking up of the Beatles (something conspicuously absent when ABBA called it a day), their music was shared by many, and still is. It's simply not true that > "Because once teenage girls start liking something, it's over." > "We hate everything they love, on principle." The entire article's tenet is: it's because they are women. Why it doesn't extend to other age groups? No explanation. And the idea that Twilight simply is garbage never even comes up. At best it's playing the victim, or pushing cultural relativism, at worst it's an attempt at driving the political division deeper.