This afternoon.
Via RTÉ Living:
Deducing the very crux of the matter down to the fact that ‘boys love clever things, cleverly and girls love foolish things, foolishly,” these sentiments are exactly what beg the question; who is the arbiter of what’s high- or lowbrow?
Who maligned these inoffensive interests so unscrupulously and so consistently that we feel bad about earnestly reveling in something that sparks joy? Who established the hierarchy of taste, denouncing silly little pop songs and condoning three-hour snooze fests?
Who are the bastions of virtue that make people feel the need to justify why they like something, only legitimise it as acceptable when done facetiously? Why do I feel like they would exude extreme name-three-songs energy?
Nick says: GULP.
Nick adds: Fight!
Nick plays: ‘Gold’ by Spandau Ballet.
Is the idea of a ‘guilty pleasure’ inherently sexist? RTE Living (Sarah Gill, RTÉ Living)
Really excellent use of public funds; actively seeking out new ways to be offended and offensive…..
Who writes this stuff? What a complete sap.
there is zero guilt in my pleasure,
zero
Depends what your pleasure is
pleasures !
I don’t think it’s all the same difference. Lowbrow, middlebrow (also called muddlebrow) and highbrow culture appeal to different levels of aesthetic and intellectual taste. Highbrows can relax by reading espionage thrillers or detective novels, but some novels in those categories have more sophisticated traits than pulp novels. Maeve Binchy was a middlebrow writer, but her themes, characterisations and narrative fluency were way above everyday chicklit offerings. George Orwell studied popular reading and found worth in some of it; other stuff he dismissed as yellow novel trash. He talked about
Good Bad Books etc.
With culture, there’s always been those
Who will look down the length of their nose
At what they perceive
To be naff or naive
While admiring the Emperor’s new clothes.
+1
‘Deducing the very crux of the matter down to the fact that ‘boys love clever things, cleverly and girls love foolish things, foolishly,’
Wow.
I’m just going to enjoy the headline and the song that inspired it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izGwDsrQ1eQ