So, if I make fun of Fabio, am I also disrespecting the real, true grit of working class folks, many of whom read novels with his model on the cover? That's identity politics carried to some new, weird, surrea level.
These are not just NASCAR books. They are Harlequin/NASCAR tie-in romance novels, and if ou read he descrptions of them they are almost always about millionaires and billionaires, etc., who might lose their family fortune est junior win the big race! Not exactly Upton Sinclair's The Jungle.
How do you even know "the working class likes these books, so shaddup"? I'm sure some working class people like lots of shitty stuff. So do rich people, by the way (faux vintage stuff/expensive replicas of imagined vintage clothing). Do I have to brandish my poor Southern boy, red state, hard scrabble past to be issued admittance to thinking NASCAR ROMANCE novels are funny? Because I am in the NASCAR demographic, if it matters -- and it shouldn't -- but even I have an eye for cultural atrocities / oddities.
-B.
Kathleen de la Peña McCook wrote:
"This kind of trash talk [about NASCAR Romance novels!! - B.] is why the left has such difficulty reaching working class people. I work with public libraries. There is as much demand for NASCAR romance as there is for Imre Kertész."