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[impy]

Had post planned. Brain cannot string words together properly due to background noise. So sorry if nothing makes sense.

However, why is it that everyone in the BSC fandom STILL has a problem believing Claudia's mother wouldn't be big on her reading fluff? I mean, yes, in theory she's a librarian and should be pro-books, yay! So on that front, I get it. But the people going on about it never seem to realize that in general, some parents are giant snobs about reading. I guess it makes sense because if you're a BSC fan, your parent(s) let you read fluff. But one of my best friends growing up didn't read anything that wasn't a classic, assigned reading, or something that would later be declared a classic. And it wasn't her choice- her parents might not have banned fluff but it was understood that you just didn't read beneath your level. Her little sister, however, got around that by inhaling the SVH TV show so, y'know, loopholes could be found.

But seriously, these people never had strict parents anywhere in their orbit? Mine didn't care too much but I definitely had friends whose parents did. So, in short, I get the people who have a problem with librarian Mrs. Kishi being the one with the book problem but get the overall concept of book snobbery, but I don't get the people who don't seem to believe that book snobbery exists at all.

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[venivididolli]

WTF, how do people think book snobbery doesn't exist? It's pretty much a constant. I read a lot of things for far younger age groups than mine, but I don't take them outside the house because I got sick of the comments about them. I read gory horror erotica and epic stupidly thick fantasy novels and dry Egyptian texts, so let me have my kids' historical fic and fantasy and teen books, too.

I'm pretty sure I remember friends who weren't allowed to read the fluff. Not that I could cite any, because I am ancient, but I'm sure I knew a least one person with that problem.

[impy]

I don't know if it's that they get tunnel vision and fixate on the Mrs. Kishi thing and don't think beyond that or if they just somehow miss the yearly "ugh, why are people wasting their time reading -whatever the author thinks is shit but is usually YA- when they could be reading Literature!" bait that always goes viral.

My parents let us read pretty much whatever but I know I was in the minority in my various friend groups because I was the person my friends came to when they needed their contraband book fix. :P

I hate it when people get judgemental about what someone else is reading unless it's like "how to make meth at home" or something equally unlikely. Let people read what they wanna read, dammit.

[mkrobinson]

Where were they talking about that???

Yeah, I think in Mrs. Kishi's case it was probably yet another thing that took time away from Claudia applying herself, or maybe it was her way of ensuring that Claudia at least read, even if it was because she pretended that she disapproved of the books. Especially since the books are in the POVs of 13 year olds we are dealing with unreliable narrators.

But book snobbery is definitely a thing.

[impy]

I believe the BSC snark comm moved to FB and every so often it'll actually show up on my feed. Usually I scroll by because I like my BSC snark with love and they do not generally, but this one caught my eye because I wanted to see how long it took before someone pointed out snobbery as a reason.

I like the idea that it was another way of her family not thinking she's applying herself. I can also get on board with trickery.

But book snobbery has always been a thing and yet in these discussions it's always just waved away like "nah, that can't possibly be it."