Yoday I'm going to be discussing the topic of book shaming and I first heard
about this idea or concept on the Book Jawn podcast. One episode that they had
when they first started their podcast was about book shaming and this concept
is pretty self-explanatory. It's when a reader gets shamed or made fun of for
reading a book, typically YA or genre novels like sometimes sci-fi and fantasy.
So they were discussing that and that really hit home with me because that's
something that I experienced a bit in college which I will talk about some
more and I had planned to make a video about this pretty much since I began my
channel but it never felt like the right time like I didn't feel like I had a
full or complete thought until recently when I was in a conversation that was also
around this topic and now I feel like I have more of a full story to tell and so
I would like to share my experiences with book shaming with you and also hear
yours in a comment. And if you have seen any of those articles where people are
making fun of adults for reading young adult novels like Harry Potter or The
Hunger Games novels, John Green books, anything like that you've definitely
read about book shaming in that form and that's something that really irritates
me. I don't like anyone looking down upon reading. Reading is beneficial. We learn
things from reading whether that book is marketed for our age group or our gender
or whatever. And just because something is narrated by a young person or centers
around young people does not mean that story's only for teenagers or children.
We have all read and enjoyed books outside of our age group. We've all maybe
read a book focusing on a senior citizen or someone older than us and that's
never frowned upon when we're young because we're learning about other
people's experiences or other fictional people's experiences but when it's an
older person reading a younger person's perspective for some reason that seems
juvenile when a lot of those books have really really heavy themes like for an
example the Harry Potter novels center around a lot of death and um and
friendship and love and bravery and so many powerful themes and same would go
for the Hunger Games. There's a lot about war and trauma and I don't know how you
could look down on somebody for taking in a story and reading about experiences
different from their own. Now I'm gonna go into some of my personal experiences
and conversations around this topic. So for my senior year of college I had to
write an honours thesis and this had to be I think 30 to 40 pages. For something
that long I wanted it to be on a book that I was passionate about, that I felt
strongly about and that I loved delving into and reading about. Obviously the
answer to that was Harry Potter something I've been passionate about and
something that I had actually studied previously in my college experience. In
my freshman honors seminar a really big part of that course was Harry Potter and
those two professors actually run the Harry Potter academic conference which I
interviewed them in my most recent how do you fan which I will link up here, down
there, everywhere. And they were a really big influence on me I'm starting a
chapter of the Harry Potter Alliance in my school and focusing on Harry Potter
in an academic way and so when I wanted to write my senior thesis on Harry
Potter my advisor was not convinced right away. So she was somebody who
focused on more serious literary fiction writers like Joyce or Virginia Woolf
people like that and so I think she thought Harry Potter was questionable.
I think her main issue was that there wouldn't be enough scholarly writing
around the series already but clearly that is not the case and there are so
many articles and books published about Harry Potter and there are more and more
every year. I found plenty of things to back up my thesis statement and I think
the only reason she let me move forward at all was because I did have a pretty
strong thesis and I had plenty of points from the books to illustrate that so I
think in the end I convinced her that Harry Potter was valuable in terms of
writing an academic paper and I wrote what I would consider to be a pretty
damn good forty page paper. Maybe I will put that on my Patreon or something so
that you can read it if you're interested. So what made me think of this
topic again recently was going to dinner with some of the people who presented at
this year's Harry Potter academic conference. I helped them out with social
media so I got invited to this dinner with the conference coordinators and a
few of the professors who had talks or read papers at the conference and during
this dinner the plenary speaker was talking about how she was at another
conference, a literature conference where she was speaking to another academic who
asked her what she had been writing on and when she said Harry Potter they kind
of snubbed her and didn't speak to her for the rest of
the conference and I thought that was horrible but it also brought back
memories of my former professor and so I told that story and everyone was kind of
sharing their experiences of Harry Potter being looked down upon as opposed
to more serious writers like Hemmingway, Joyce, whatever. But was interesting that
these people who literally had PhDs and tons of experience and so many published
things were still being snubbed and thought of as less serious than people
who focused on more adult fiction. I think there will come a time when
writings like Harry Potter or even like Tolkien or something like that will be
maybe taken more seriously because so many people are doing that work now to
continue writing about these works. There's no denying if these people
actually read these novels I think that they would see the value in them and
maybe admit their defeat but I'm not one hundred percent sure about that. So tell
me about a time when you have been book shamed if that has ever happened to you,
what you think will happen in the future in terms of this and tell me if if what
you've been book shamed for has been YA or maybe a different genre, maybe
romance novels or sci-fi, something like that. I'm definitely fascinated to
continue the conversation around this and just to stop book shaming altogether
if we can. Reading is good. I don't know how simple...I don't know how much more simply
I can put it. Reading is beneficial. Empathy is great.
Stories are powerful. I have nothing more to say. And don't forget to
subscribe if you are new to my channel and you like a nerdy content about books
obviously, TV shows, some lifestyle stuff, a lot of Harry Potter. Alright I'll see
you in my next video. Bye.
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