>>2670301That's how genres work. You can't just make up your own thing and call it the same in conceit.
You'd become a social cancer, and the reason China has re-education centers.
For PR reasons you tell your audience that their interpretation is correct. You don't want to alienate them, and they're entitled to their own tastes. But that's a white lie; sometimes you have to cut them off and remind them that genres(like genders and generations) are collective nouns. They exist by virtue of plurality. Not functionality.
So it's like, Lung Cells are distinguishable from Breast Cells. And Functionally, they do different things but this functionality is above individualism. As proof, cancer cells metastasize. Breast cancer cells that move into the lungs don't become "lung cells". They're in the tissue but not generated by the tissue, despite being of the same body. They're fundamentally different.
The collective doesn't serve the individual, not intentionally anyways. An individual can change because it is real, but a collection can not because it is virtual.
And so, for example, LGBT narratives have no responsibility to represent or evolve with individuals who identify as LGBT. It isn't a mirror. Because the LGBT community are not necessarily consumers of said media.
The connection between the two is merely parallel, and virtually indistinguishable - until individuals want to change and realize it won't change with them. People use a mirror to define themselves. So imagine their horror when they realize the mirror doesn't reflect them, or worst, that they were the reflection all along.
