Yeah, I think the thing for me is (originally, at least) that trashy does have that same connotation of "too terrible to be fun" for me, because usually the way I have used it in the past is for things that I genuinely don't enjoy and/or do actually think are terrible.
I know that people use it in a light-hearted way on Tumblr, and I always sort of took it as a guilty/embarrassed kind of thing, like "I am putting it down before anyone else can put me down for it because I know it's Bad but I also like it and that's the only way I can justify that dichotomy".
And that's kind of ... a little bit of it, maybe, but I think I never really quite got it before talking with xparrot about it last spring (... or whenever that was) which kinda clarified for me where people are coming from with it, that it doesn't quite mean what I thought it did, and is a lot more affectionate and less of a self-putdown than I had thought. Honestly, that made me okay with it; I mean, all I really needed to know is "other people use this term a little differently than I do, and it makes them happy, and that's okay!" I actually don't feel any need for people not to use that term around me now, because I think I just kinda needed to have it explained for me, and now it has been and I "get" it and everything is fine. :D (For me.)
(I love that we have recreated Trash Discourse in xparrot's blog. And by "love" I mean I AM SO SORRY. >__>)
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Date: 2019-11-21 08:28 am (UTC)I know that people use it in a light-hearted way on Tumblr, and I always sort of took it as a guilty/embarrassed kind of thing, like "I am putting it down before anyone else can put me down for it because I know it's Bad but I also like it and that's the only way I can justify that dichotomy".
And that's kind of ... a little bit of it, maybe, but I think I never really quite got it before talking with
(I love that we have recreated Trash Discourse in