My issue with what h/she said was not that he equated reading YA lit with pedophilia, but that he made that assumption, the assumption that the public views reading YA as skeevy. It has never once crossed my mind that something could be skeevy about it, and the fact that it crossed that author's mind creeps me out. If that's the first thing you think when you see an adult reading a YA book? That's skeevy.
Yes, there's a silly stigma attached to reading YA, but the stigma is based on the perception of "if it's for a younger audience, it's not as good/sophisticated", not "OH HAY LOOK, IT'S A PEDO!" I am totally boggling at how that could cross anyone's mind.
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Date: 2008-09-20 12:49 am (UTC)Yes, there's a silly stigma attached to reading YA, but the stigma is based on the perception of "if it's for a younger audience, it's not as good/sophisticated", not "OH HAY LOOK, IT'S A PEDO!" I am totally boggling at how that could cross anyone's mind.