Maybe we adult men can more likely get away with holding onto our adolescent obsessions because we already tend to have more power than our female counterparts.

Maybe we adult men can more likely get away with holding onto our adolescent obsessions because we already tend to have more power than our female counterparts. I recently re-read _Ready Player One_, and now that I think about it in this context, it's largely about a billionare who became so powerful that he could not only hold onto his 80s obsessions for his whole life, but give the rest of the world a powerful incentive to share those obsessions.