"You’ll have to forgive me, but I fail to see how an invitation to further critical analysis counts as a negative."

Foz Meadows on yet another one of those annoying articles* about YA:

Take, for instance, the immensely judgemental suggestion that the “same girl” who reads popular YA fantasy novels is unlikely to also read real SFF, presumably on the basis that she’s a popular kid rather than one of the “genre nerds”. What this is, in essence, is yet another permutation of the Fake Geek Girl argument: a deeply sexist panic at the idea that, even when they’re reading dystopian novels, watching comic movies and learning archery for fun, ‘regular’ girls can’t really be true fans of real SFF, because their enjoyment of other, more mainstream activities – or, far more often, their possession of conventionally attractive looks – invariably marks them out as dilettantes only feigning nerdness in order to drive boys crazy.

*Which I am totally going to go and read now, because BEING IRRITATED IS FUN LIKEWHOA!!<3!!

(via Gwenda)