I'm just going to copy and paste this from my own comments section rather than just rewrite it:
Re: "tokenism" on year-end lists. Does it never occur to people that this happens mainly because top ten lists are an inherently flawed way of quantifying tastes, and that a great many people who have to fill these things out have varied tastes that must be simplified and dumbed down in order to make a tidy list? These lists eliminate the nuance of individuals' taste, and then they do it all over again in aggregate.
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Re: Meanwhile Jess weighs in
Date: 2008-01-25 02:18 pm (UTC)Re: "tokenism" on year-end lists. Does it never occur to people that this happens mainly because top ten lists are an inherently flawed way of quantifying tastes, and that a great many people who have to fill these things out have varied tastes that must be simplified and dumbed down in order to make a tidy list? These lists eliminate the nuance of individuals' taste, and then they do it all over again in aggregate.