Reviewing the audience

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Theodore Sturgeon used to say that science fiction is judged by its worst examples. There's actually something worse than that: a category being judged by its audience, or more precisely by the critic's image of its audience. The classic examples are soap opera (can't be good, appeals to housewives) and country music (can't be good, appeals to rednecks). Now we have can't be good, appeals to nerds.

Thanx to Geek Feminism.