Reading is subjective, I guess

Añadido: 2026-05-08

[00:00:04]Hi, my name's Rachel and today I want to talk about the phrase reading is subjective. I had a video go viral on Tik Tok. It was an unboxing video and it did not go viral because it was an unboxing video. It went viral because of the 13-second anecdote about how I got the box in the first place. Let me just show it to you. So, I found out that an author I was going to go to an event for was MAGA. I had already got my ticket.

[00:00:28]It was very disappointing. I did not go.

[00:00:31]It was a local event. I was really excited. The author was MAGA. Wrote for Princeton's conservative newspaper, so I didn't go, right? And I was disappointed because I was like, a book about pirates. And we're I live in Tampa, so like you know, Gasper.

[00:00:46]Um, then another author reached out and was like, do you want my pirate book?

[00:00:50]And I said, abso fuckingutely I do.

[00:00:53]Yeah. Send me that [ __ ] Are you ready?

[00:00:59]It says aoy. This is a three minute video. I'm unboxing. I'm really excited.

[00:01:04]And again, like the majority of this video, 93% of it is me discussing the book, the the insides of the box, screaming, being, you know, a general I'm a cancer, so you know, doing general cancer [ __ ] right?

[00:01:20]The anecdote about how I got the box in the first place caused a ruckus in my comments. And I couldn't help but feel like this was a good opportunity for to for us to talk about a good use of the phrase reading is subjective because the reason why I did not want to read that author's book is because I read enough by right-wingers here and typically it's for the purposes of like scientific research scientific research rather than the purpose of enjoyment. I could enjoy a book by a right-winger maybe, like theoretically, but I never actually have. And because reading is subjective, at less in this scenario, when I enter into a book thinking that it might be written by a right-winger, I am looking for clues on it. You don't have to do this. I can't not do it. That's who I am. And that's fine. And the reason I do this is because I grew up fundamentalist evangelical Christian. I was a right-winger. I was raised to be a right-winger. I was raised to be a part of this generation that would create more right-wing fundamentalist Christian kids so that we would put our kids and ourselves into political office and do Christian nationalism. I left. And now I look at media from people who have not left and examine it as somebody who has left. This is how I navigate reading. If you want to navigate reading differently, if you want to turn your brain off, if you want to, you can. You have so much freedom to do those things.

[00:02:55]But when I exercise my freedom, people get like real upset. Reading is not subjective. When I do it, it's morally bad. I can give you an example of when I have done this, and it was when I read Conform by Ariel Sullivan. The way that she talked about the idea for this book gave me the feeling that she might be a right-winger on top of the fact that she's friends with Jenna Bush and that's who published it. So, I went into this book looking for more clues to that and surprisingly I didn't really find any. I mentioned this in my Goodreads review and the people were not happy with me.

[00:03:30]Why do the author's politics matter?

[00:03:32]They do matter to me and that's okay. It is okay and not morally wrong for me to read into the author's politics in a book because politics is not divorced from art. Who you are is what informs how you write your book. You can choose to be apathetic towards the way that politics shapes art. You do not actually get to choose to be apolitical. There is no such thing as being apolitical.

[00:03:57]Everything is politics. You just get to choose whether or not you're going to care about that. I choose to care about it. It was very clear to me that the people engaging in the video that went viral and the review on Goodreads of Conform where they're asking me why does it matter what an author's politics are.

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[00:06:36]The answer is I'm reading subjectively.

[00:06:38]Would also say reading is subjective as a shield from criticism. There was a really good post that I saw about this that I want to highlight here and I'm going to link it down below. It was by booked girls book club specifically written by Michelle and it says to be honest I do think reading is subjective is overused sometimes like a shield against reading responsibly. First a quick story. I recently read 9inth House by Lee Bardugo and enjoyed it for its gothic dark academia vibes, strong female character, and slowburn tension with the male main character. I reviewed the book positively at first. Then I came across a one-star review by a creator. My name is Martinez, who is a friend of mine, I love you, that I follow because she has more critical reviews that I learned from. But this time it hit different. I felt defensive, especially when I got to where the reviewer, a bipok woman, critiques the author's representations of race and sexual assault. My first reaction was to dismiss the review, saying to myself, "Well, reading is subjective." What did I mean? Reading is subjective in this case. So, this post by Michelle is sort of like um mulling over what she felt when her initial response was to be, "Well, reading is subjective." What did I mean by reading is subjective in this case? For example, the review argues that the female main character's race is portrayed in ways that reinforce harmful stereotypes, especially with her unearned admission to Yale and limited descriptions of her cultural identity.

[00:07:58]Defensively, I thought, I don't think the author intended to portray that stereotype. It didn't strike me as prejudicial when I read it, and I'm always on the lookout for those things.

[00:08:05]Perhaps this creator disliked other parts of the book, like pacing that she was just in the mood to be extra critical. In the grand scheme of the plot, this is a minor issue. This can still be a five-star read for me if I enjoyed it that much. And I'm not unique. I've seen similar comments in bookish spaces arguing about popular books with problematic elements. Put simply, I reacted as if my right to enjoy this book was more important than learning from the review, interrogating my own privilege, and potentially changing my mind. The impact of a stereotype reigns regardless of an author's intent. This actually is perpetuating a harmful myth about perceived incompetence of bipox students that has come up in the media very recently. My own intentions and values don't stop me from getting things wrong sometimes when reading. This felt like a minor issue to me because I am a white woman in a female dominated field. Very few people have ever questioned whether I earned my place there. What consequences, you ask? We're in a media literacy crisis at a time when uneducated, voting public of readers is crucially important. What we choose to review and purchase shapes the tastes of others and shapes the practices of the publishing industry. If you're not careful, social media allows you to insulate rather than learn, creating an echo chamber in which your beliefs are reinforced, even when they should be challenged. Publishing has a bad history of excluding and misrepresenting certain group groups such as bipok people, LGBTQ plus people and others. This causes much harm. Many of us read to escape or relax. But it's impossible to do that without turning a blind eye to these issues. In some yes, reading is highly personal. But let's not throw out reading is subjective like an uno reverse card, as if subjectivity erases our accountability as readers for what we amplify in our spheres of influence.

[00:09:40]And let's not be afraid or defensive when engaging reviews that make us uncomfortable. It can be an opportunity to learn how to empathize with real people and not just the one in our book.

[00:09:48]How we read, how we spend our money, the stories we give platform to, the way we hold authors accountable or don't, whose opinions we validate or ignore. It all shapes the world around us. And she ends it by saying, "What do you think?" And I encourage you if you want to share your thoughts to go ahead down below. Here are mine. I had a similar situation, not with 9inth House, which I already gave one star, but with The House in the Ceruan Sea by TJ Cloon, which at the time of reading I gave five stars. I have done a video on this and I get a lot of responses on that video. It is not a review of the book. It is going over why people were upset about the book. I have already done my time in the trenches arguing with people about why the indigenous community was hurt by what TJ said was the basis for writing this novel. The simple fact is is that when a harmed community tells you this is how this harms our community and perpetuates harmful incorrect information about us, that is the voice that we need to center in the conversation. And that is what I continued to do. So my first initial response was to be like, "Ah, well, I mean, I really liked that book. It pulled on my heartstrings. I gave it five stars." But doing right by a marginalized community is more important than my enjoyment of a book, even a queer book that I liked as much as I liked The House in the Cerulean Sea.

[00:11:04]People in my comments, however, got absolutely stuck and tried to, as Michelle put it, Uno reverse. Here were a couple of comments I got on this. Um, this is not the only time this has happened. This also happens when I talk about Sarah J. Mass and her depiction of people of color, of disabled folks. But The House in the Ceruan Sea is one that stands out to me because I know what it looks like to have enjoyed that book.

[00:11:29]Learned about the harm that it reinforces and the stereotypes that it reinforces against indigenous people who the author admits it was based upon or the experience of whom it was based upon. I know what it's like to see that and go, "Oh, no." And then and then choose to say, "Well, I'm going to go with the marginalized group on this rather than my own feelings and just defend myself by saying, well, reading is subjective." So, here's some push back that I got in that video. Okay, I only got four minutes into this video and was instantly turned off by her claim of appropriation. As a gay man myself and an author of fantasy, I absolutely loved his portrayal of queer storytelling. The book was empathetic to its core and it didn't seem appropriated in any sense. Stop trying to be a social justice warrior for clicks and let us queer readers, I am also a queer reader, but okay, actually read an enjoyable representation of queer fantasy literature without the bullet points of modern wokeness. I absolutely loved this book and the this author and will read every book he has written because of this book. Again, I also loved the book, but it is not wokeness to hear that another community whose experiences were co-opted by the author feels harmed by it and say, "All right, I'm going to side with that community. They know best their harm." Another comment that I got that I thought was important to note was, "I'm here to comment for engagement because this is one the one video of yours that I won't watch. I do understand the criticism of TJ for writing Ceruan Sea using the inspiration that he did, which the inspiration I think I've forgotten to mention so far in this video. Again, the the video I did on on this covers it, but he said in an interview that he was inspired by the ' 60s scoop, which happened specifically to indigenous people where their children were stolen from them and put in residential homes. Many were murdered, most were not returned to their families. I do understand the criticism of TJ for writing Serillian Sea using the inspiration he did, but when I read it before the controversy came out, it made me feel in a way very few books have and became my immediate favorite. This is the one instance where I will be a bad reader and not view discourse and alternate viewpoints so I can keep something I love close to my heart. And I I understand the urge to do that, to not taint it. But the love that you have for something, I don't think should override your desire to do right by the community whose trauma and pain and history was co-opted. So in these cases, I don't think that reading is subjective is a shield to prevent yourself from having to grapple with the harm that was caused to another group of people. Many there were many other much more mean and sassy comments by people who were like, "This is [ __ ] woke [ __ ] Really aggressive. I blocked immediately." But I think that some of these people, and again, this is an assumption that I'm making, I think that some of these people would probably be like, "Well, reading is subjective, so I'm allowed to still like this book."

[00:14:13]But I think they would probably turn around and be like, "Why are you caring about an author's politics going into a book?" And if I say, "Well, reading is subjective. That's how they read." They will throw it out. Reading is subjective is only something that they are allowed to that they feel that they are allowed to use. I don't know. Maybe I'm straw manning. don't actually have proof that these people exist, but I feel that that's probably that's probably something that's going on here. The way that you read a book, sure, is subjective. Like, I think that I cannot go into a right-winger's book knowing that they are a right-winger without it, yeah, affecting how I view the book because I'm going to be looking for clues about what their politics are.

[00:14:50]That is just the standard for me. That's how I read. If you read differently, whatever, that's on you. But also reading is subjective is not a way for us to just ignore actual real world harm. And the perpetuation of stereotypes is real world harm.

[00:15:05]Especially because people in power are showing that they believe these stereotypes to be true more and more and more every day. They do believe that people of color are less qualified, less qualified to hold certain jobs, less qualified to be parents. And when we don't grapple with those incorrect assumptions of marginalized groups of people both in the real world and also in the fiction that we are reading, we don't stop it. We don't fix that problem. We don't fix that mindset and keep it from causing real life consequences to those people groups. And I think that you as a human being have a responsibility to do right by other human beings. If you choose to be apathetic, okay, but there are consequences for being apathetic. I think that, you know, you want the benefit of feeling like a good person but without actually doing the work. And unfortunately, doing the work means not being apathetic when you go into art because art is political. You can't be apolitical about it. And two things can be true at once. You can have enjoyed something. I mean, Michelle's post went over this really, really well. Two things can be true at once. You can have enjoyed something and also it can contain something that you missed that is harmful and we do need to deal with.

[00:16:14]Both of those things can be true at once. I do think that your love for other human beings, real life human beings, has to be more important to you than your love for a fictional experience. Because if we're not able to do that, I'm not really sure how we create a better world for each other. So reading is subjective. When I go into a book, I am subjectively taking all that I am into my reading experience of it because I know that who the author is informs the book and who I am informs my reading experience of the book. And sure, reading is subjective. You can engage with something and love it and then later find out that it harms a group of people. And that is a difficult thing to hold those things in, you know, within us at the same time. My love for this piece of media and my love for other human beings and how do I reconcile those things? This is difficult. It is necessary. So, the next time that you see a review of a book that you like, but that's actually what I forgot to mention. Everybody who came into my comments arguing with me about bringing up the the author's politics in my review of Conformed, every single one of them gave Conformed five stars. I understand that you love something and that you're annoyed that I didn't. That is a you problem. That is not a me problem. And you aren't finding like, well, I'm justifying my frustration that this person did not love something that I love by trying to make it morally bad to go into a book subjectively by caring about the author's politics. I find that I find that frankly stupid. I don't really know how to articulate that better than I find that frankly stupid.

[00:17:42]If reading is subjective, then that means that some people are going to go into things not turning off who they are. My name is Minez, who Michelle mentioned earlier in her post, has a really good video on how anti-intellectualism shows up in bookish and review spaces. And I think that that's relevant to what I'm saying here.

[00:18:02]So, I'm going to show you a clip from Marty's video on this, and you can go follow her down below. Intellectual engagement is about how you read and not what you read. So, how does anti-intellectualism actually show up in bookish communities? I feel like I have firsthand deep knowledge of this because I am somebody who reviews critically.

[00:18:19]That is like my whole jam in my content is actually thinking critically about everything that I read. So, I think the ways that we actually see anti-intellectualism show up is when people try to shut down that kind of critical thinking with things like, "You're overthinking it. It's not that deep. I just want to have fun. I read for fun." These are dismissals of critical thinking. It's treating analysis as unnecessary. It's treating analysis as pretentious. It's treating analysis as elitism. It's the idea that developing analytical skills or prioritizing thinking about your media or allowing other people to think critically about their media that all of those things are pointless and there is a distrust of the people who are engaging in those activities especially as being seen as sort of like infiltrating community or destroying your personal enjoyment or things along those lines.

[00:19:04]>> Here's the thing about the the other the the the author that I didn't go to the event for and how this is sort of related. The reason why I find a right-wing person who wrote weird stuff about abortion that made me deeply uncomfortable in Princeton's newspaper, the reason why I find that to be somebody that I wouldn't want to hang out with on a Saturday, bare minimum is because I have read so many of their books and at bare minimum, best case scenario, their books are boring. And I've talked about this in another video where uh I talked about like why Christian media is not very good. And it's because it's very hard for them to hold conflicting beliefs and write nuanced books. And so they all come off very shallow. And so at best, even if their books are not harmful, their books are often boring because of that lack of nuance, because of that shallow nature of their books. And they have to do things like excuse empire and also be find empires inexcusable at the same time. They hold like these conflicting beliefs. And I know because I did it for a long time as a as a a person who was a right-winger who grew up in that who was raised to be that and who left. I know that those conflicting beliefs ultimately uh helped unravel those beliefs because that cognitive dissonance is is after a while it if you even critically think one time it becomes exhausting to hold up that cognitive dissonance. If you never critically think, which is their hope, which is why they're trying to dismantle education, public education rather, is their hope is that you never learn to critically think and that you'll always hold up these very conflicting beliefs and never think past the shallow nature of of how you are holding up these beliefs. So the art that they create to me is again at best it's boring. So like subjectively, I don't really want to engage in their art because at best I find it boring. And apparently that's the wrong thing to say. It's the wrong thing to say that um I you I I can't turn my brain off to read because everything is political whether you like it or not. It's the wrong thing to say to say that the author TJ Cloon wrote something that was inspired by a real life group of people, a thing, an event that happened to them and wrote it in a way that further harmed that group of people in 2026 where we are living where everything is on fire. Again, like Michelle said, many of us read to escape or relax, but it is possible to do that without turning a blind eye to these issues. If you would like to escape and relax, you can do that. But you don't also need to ignore the real life implications of other people uh and the harm that comes to them or or the misinformation that is perpetuated about them that causes them harm in real life and upholds these systems that continue to keep them on the margins of society.

[00:21:50]So you can choose how you subjectively go into a book, but you don't get to decide that for other people because reading is subjective. You are not going to decide that it is morally right to turn your brain off for everybody else.

[00:22:02]And you're definitely not going to convince me that it would have been a fun Saturday to spend with somebody who actively votes to make Florida worse. I like why would I want to spend my Saturday like that? Are you? That whole video going viral was such an experience because I got Should we read some of the comments actually that I got bringing up that that I I was talking about the the author for all of 13? It was 13 seconds.

[00:22:25]I was like, "Here's how I got the box. I didn't want to go to this event." I never made another TikTok about it. I don't give a [ __ ] about her or, you know, her book because again, I think if if memory serves from all the times that I've ever read books by right-wingers, it's going to be boring as [ __ ] Like, you're not going to tell me that I didn't read the entirety of JM Buckleberry's books. I know right-wingers way too well. She's not the only one, but like this is like the the most recent example I can think of.

[00:22:50]Those people's books are boring. They're boring. and I don't want to spend a Saturday with them. I guess that's controversial. All right, so some of the comments I got, "No offense, but if politics prevents you from connecting with humans on a basic level, that's sad." Girl, who the [ __ ] said that. I can connect with other people. Like, I could be like, "Have you ever had a grandparent die?" Me, too. Like, we could connect over something, right? My free time on a Saturday is valuable to me, and I don't want to spend it with somebody who said stuff about abortion that I find weird. bare minimum, especially a Floridaian who is actively voting against my best interest. I'm way too involved in Florida politics to hang out with a right-winger on a Saturday. I don't want to do that. I have no desire to do that. I I subjectively feel that that would be a bare minimum boring Saturday for me. This person said, "Blah blah blah be an adult because I guess deciding what I do in my own free time on a Saturday is not acting like an adult." That's weird. I bought the car that I drove to the library meeting that I went to instead. I guess I didn't do that adultedly enough. Y'all are so exhausting. Heaven forbid someone has a different opinion than you. I'm sorry you live that life, sweetie. I didn't go to an event. It would have been boring.

[00:24:00]What do you want? Jeez, this makes me a little sad. As a Republican, I still read and support authors of the opposite party. Maybe I'm the exception, but art is still beautiful no matter who creates it. All right. Subjectively, again, the art made by right-wingers is boring.

[00:24:14]What do you want me to say? That's how I subjectively feel. I think they make bad, boring art that is shallow, lacking nuance. I mean, I just I just reread House by Frank Petti and Ted Decker. I just reread it and it further affirmed for me that I think these people make poor art. Why would I want to spend my Saturday with somebody who probably makes poor art? And I actually I talked to a couple friends of mine who were like, "Oh yeah, I read that book. It was boring. I saved myself because I know I have great pattern recognition and I can tell who is going to be boring and not worth my time on a Saturday and who isn't. As a Republican, I still read and support authors of the opposite party.

[00:24:55]There's not there's a hard time I'm having trying to understand what rights and policies that leftwing people vote into place that affect you negatively the way that the right-wing does to me.

[00:25:08]Especially in Florida. Especially in Florida. I could give you an alphabetized list of the way right-wingers are affecting my kids' education. Actually, I could give you an alphabetized list of just the education points. Like, especially as a mom of students with IEPs that we are not the same. We are not the same. Oh my gosh, who the [ __ ] cares? It's 2026. The magit means nothing. Just don't vote for them next year, but shut the [ __ ] up already.

[00:25:31]Again, this is definitely coming from somebody who's not in Florida. This author and I are both in Florida. I don't want to hang out with somebody who is probably going to vote for either Byron, who's a MAGA guy, or James Fishbach, who is literally a Confederate sympathizer. This is who it's between for right-wingers to decide who is Florida's next governor. And who Florida's next governor is is uh pretty [ __ ] important because I don't know if you know this, governors decide who's in charge. When my school board was attacked by the attorney general and the commissioner for education, both of whom were appointed, not elected, appointed by who? The governor, Ronda Santz, those people attacked my kids schoolboard specifically, forced my school board to ban books when we had no book bans until this time last year when the attorney general and the commissioner for education came after my school board specifically. And when my school board members pushed back, they were threatened with removal. And if they're removed, do you know how we get new schoolboard members? I don't get to vote for those people. The governor would appoint me a schoolboard member and he would appoint Moms for Liberty people who actively try to take away mental health services and special needs services that my kids benefit from. When you vote these people into office, you are from the top down affecting my children locally. It absolutely is pertinent to me. I don't want to spend my Saturday with somebody who I couldn't help but think, are you going to vote somebody into office who would kick out my elected schoolboard members over books and replace them with people who would harm my disabled kids? I I as a mom can't help but think that if you're built different, okay, you really get upset with someone that isn't a Democrat. No, it's not about being a Democrat because [ __ ] Democrats too a lot of the times. Like, there are people on my school board who are Democrats and [ __ ] you, too. This is the issue right now and we should all realize it. They put us in buckets and we isolate from ourselves from each other by name calling. I didn't name call anybody. I don't want to hang out with people who vote against me and my kids' best interests on a Saturday. On a Saturday, maybe on a Tuesday. Maybe on a Tuesday, I'd go, I'd take some notes. I'd talk about what I heard. But on a Saturday, no. Me and my kid, we went out. We went to the mall. I went to a town hall meeting. And then we walked across the street from the town hall meeting to Dairy Joy and I got a dip cone. That was a better time. Isolating for ourselves from each other. I went to a town hall meeting with a bunch of educators in my town who are trying to not close P8.

[00:27:55]Isolating ourselves from each other. I went to a better event. What are you talking about? And an event that actually is in conflict with who that author probably is based on what I read from her from her from her time at Princeton. You don't know her and don't know her beliefs. I quite literally do.

[00:28:10]I just, as I just said, I I read the post that she made in conservative in in the conservative newspaper that she wrote for in her time at Princeton. I do know, and it is what she wrote that informs whether or not I would want to spend a Saturday with her subjectively as a by MAGA girl. Nope. No, no. I'm not doing that. Author dodged a bullet. I mean, probably. She wouldn't like me either. I will say though that um it's not like I'm never going to go to events that don't have Trump people. That was one of the things. is like people were were asking my comments, "Are you really going to avoid everybody?" Um, no, I can't. Um, like I'm looking at my neighbor's house right now. I can see it through the window. I know she's a Trump supporter. We say hello at the mailbox and that's about it. We would not make Saturday plans together. This is not difficult to understand. However, this author is going to be at other events that I go to because for instance uh actually I I just saw last night the the list of authors that are going to this romance uh book event that the library is hosting and I'm going to be there. A bunch of my mutuals who are authors are going to be there. A bunch of my friends who are readers are going to be there and I'm planning to go and I know she'll be there and okay, we just won't interact. But I'm not going to go to an event dedicated to just her book. She's going to have a booth at the romance festival. I probably won't go up there for any reason. I can't see any reason why I would want to go up there. But an event that is just about her doing panels, signing her books, I don't have an interest. And it is fine for me to subjectively say that I don't want to go to that. Okay, reading is subjective, but reading is subjective as a phrase is not a shield for you to not engage with the fact that books are political and books have real life consequences to marginalized groups. and at least having the consideration to let those people be centered in conversations, especially when the book was about them in the case of especially House in the Surency. I think we owe it to each other to do right by each other. All right, that's enough rambling. Uh, thanks so much for watching. If you made it this far, you can leave a orange because of me being a Floridaian and this author, too. We're the orange state. So, you can want to saw us off of the bottom of America, but unfortunately, you can't. We're here and us who are progressive are trying to make change to benefit the whole of humanity. So, please don't discount the work that usidians here are doing to try to combat the harm that our shittier citizens are doing and the people in charge are doing. We are trying our best. Don't discount flidians cuz I'm here and I'm out here doing work. So yeah, leave an orange down below if you made it this far. Thanks so much for watching and I'll see you next time.

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