I admit to being guilty of the above. It must be why I keep pestering JK to watch Merlin with me. Still, as much as I would like JK to love the same things I do, it isn’t going to happen and it would mean I would also have to learn to like the things he does. Anyway, I was thinking about this when I read this article “Can women learn to enjoy comics?” – which starts off on a bad foot because of the unfortunate title – and the accompanying discussions.
General complaints are that (a) many women already read comics, (b) why are women so special that they need to learn to enjoy comics and (c) where are the manga recommendations? Frankly the article itself isn’t all that bad – he does give good advice to anyone who wants to introduce comics to non-comic fans (i.e.: consider their other interests and see what comics will appeal to them). In fact that’s pretty good advice especially crappier advice I’ve seen often think that pushing Maus and Sandman at women will get them to read comics. Which may not. And I know because I like neither Maus nor Sandman. Give me capes and tights anytime.
What this whole thing made me consider was that why do we need to try so hard to get our SOs to love the things we do? For me, I want someone to discuss (and affectionately mock) Merlin with although admittedly JK isn’t going to like discussing how cute prince Arthur is I suspect. Still, it is probably very annoying if someone keeps pestering you to give various things a try and continually extols its virtues. So JK, you don’t have to watch Merlin with me if you really don’t want to. :)
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