More Meme Therapy elsewhere

[mrissa]

And here's the second Meme Therapy question I answered: "Is it worth maintaining the thin red line between Science Fiction and Fantasy?" Oh, just guess what the gist of my answer was. C'mon. You can do it. I believe in you.

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[evangoer.livejournal.com]

I think that genres are really just "tags", in the sense of flickr tags or whatnot. They're a handy way for authors and bookstores and libraries to point readers to particular books. If I've decided I'm looking for a book tagged "horror", I'll have good luck finding one on the "horror" shelf. The amazing thing is that even though physical libraries and bookstores can't afford to place books on three or four or seventeen shelves, the system still works okay-ish.

The *real* downside to the system is that certain people have decided that their tag is objectively better than the other tags. This confuses me.