Coastal elitism deserves better than this.

[redmonster]

Several days ago I heard about some asshole named Joel Stein showing up in the New York Times and sneering about adults who read YA fiction. I don't even care that much about defending the tastes of adults who read YA (for example, I'm a long-time enthusiast of HP, as I'm sure you all know, and anyone who thinks less of me for that is no one worth

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[redmonster]

The problem is this dude's mistaken his visceral reaction for a coherent argument, and a major newspaper has given him a place to hear himself talk.

[redmonster]

They can publish that drivel, the cultural hipsters can sneer over their no-fat soy lattes, and I can point out that they're nowhere near as clever as they seem to think.