Not on a date as such, but a burgeoning friendship rather fell apart recently when The Other was unwilling to accept my tastes, along similar lines. And, it's not as if my tastes are exclusively popist.
Misogyny, yes, came up but so did The Irony Question. "You don't really like [say] TaTu. You just like them ironically" I expect everyone here has come up against this at some point. It's quite exasperating, as I simply cannot comprehend how someone could like something ironically! It would seem to imply to me:
1. That person x doesn't actually listen to the music, just expresses "appreciation"; in which case = person x doesn't actually like the music
or
2. That person x does listen to the music, but doesn't particularly enjoy it, and wears his/her listening as sort of badge.
Are either of these plausible? I dunno.
Also, are there any plausible responses to this attack? Other than "Well, I just like the music!" The producer/auteur = the future thing has kind of vanished recently...
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Date: 2005-10-16 11:47 am (UTC)Misogyny, yes, came up but so did The Irony Question. "You don't really like [say] TaTu. You just like them ironically" I expect everyone here has come up against this at some point. It's quite exasperating, as I simply cannot comprehend how someone could like something ironically! It would seem to imply to me:
1. That person x doesn't actually listen to the music, just expresses "appreciation"; in which case = person x doesn't actually like the music
or
2. That person x does listen to the music, but doesn't particularly enjoy it, and wears his/her listening as sort of badge.
Are either of these plausible? I dunno.
Also, are there any plausible responses to this attack? Other than "Well, I just like the music!" The producer/auteur = the future thing has kind of vanished recently...