Thanks to Gusts of Popular Feeling for the lengthy, well-thought write up. For another sendup on the Wonder Girls, I think it's a smart piece. And I do like the fact that we can have a conversation here, building on each other and adding, helping the thought processes move along. Two related posts:
"Reading too much into the Wonder Girls"
"Perceptions of teens in the mid-1990's"
I am especially glad that Matt went and did the latter write-up, since he explicitly found a lot of the stuff I had read and heard about back in the 1990's and from working in alternative and youth education in the 2000's. That's where a lot of my apparent anger and disgust with the Wonder Girls marketing and reception by older men is coming from, since there are some pretty significant reasons in Korean society for alarm bells to be going off here.
At least, from one perspective.
Great job, and as always, great blog.
