mickeylala14
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Heated Rivalry (Game Changers #2)
Rachel Reid
This is giving me that one episode of American Dad when Steve finds a copy of the script to Fast and the Furious and it was just Vin Diesel and Paul Walker's characters fucking a lot.
mickeylala14 commented...
I think there is some in reading, historically speaking it was worse. I don't think people really want to admit how TikTok has made reading "cool", especially women, even though there obviously was interest in it before. I think it's become an even greater market though, and especially in USA where the culture is very capitalist, we have normalized it so we don't feel bad spending money on books and similar items. Also, the rise of the Kindle where no one can see the cover of what you're reading has taken away some embarrassment in enjoying certain books like romances, which stereotypically had cheesy covers that were easy to mock.
I agree with the sentiment that people shouldn't be embarrassed to like what they like; so long as no one is getting hurt, who cares?
Kind of random but ties into reading I swear.
I have a coworker who confuses me to no end. He spends massive amounts of time watching, walking about, listening to others talk about, and betting on pro football 🏈. I asked him if he was excited for the draft tonight, something I only know about because he spent an entire lunch talking about it and theorizing who will take which players. His response is "I don't care" and then something like "I'm only looking forward to laughing at dumb gm decisions".
He obviously cares about this, and enjoys it but won't admit it for whatever reason. There seems to be a fear of seeming to care about stuff, and it isn't limited to this guy.
That said I don't see this in the book community as much. If I run into a reader in the wild they usually are excited to share (the acception being a woman I work with who left it vague, who I think is reading romance).
Do you see it with readers or not? Why do you think readers are more/less willing to be seen as enjoying things they enjoy?
