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We (the NGO I work for) put a survey on FB about adults who read folktales / fairy tales.
It's getting a bunch of trolls.
How is THIS a post getting the trolls?!
"Adults should read literature, not infantile gibberish."
"Tales for adults are called fantasy fiction. Or the news."
"Doesn't this organization do anything else but stories?"
What. The. Hell.
@TarkabarkaHolgy People have been saying things like this to me my whole life. I loved to read as a kid, but I wasn't reading "real" books, according to my teachers (I was mostly reading science fiction).
As an adult, I read Harry Potter, and people told me that's only for kids. I read Twilight, and people told me that's for middle aged women. And I still read lots of science fiction, which apparently means I've "gone woke," according to some people.
There is something about books and literature that brings out the absolute judgiest of judgy people.