“Instead of dropping your guilty pleasures, think more about why you like them. Don’t settle for easy answers, and don’t assume it’s because there’s something wrong with you, as this quote does. I would much rather have someone say something intelligent about why they like gossip blogs or Bridezillas (say!), something that admits the validity of pleasure as a prerequisite to analysis, than to hear someone talk about how they read this really important book and how profound it is. It’s the guilty, not the pleasure, that’s the problem here.”
— Mike Barthel. Not coincidentally, it was while reading one of his posts on Idolator that I realised it was okay to like the things I like.
