“at least they’re reading!” are they, though? I guess that’s true, in a literal but superficial sense. there’s a difference between reading and consuming content
this isn’t in the story, but as I was writing it I kept thinking about a high school classmate who got pregnant. (We had a baby shower in geometry class.) Family married her off and she disappeared from school. No idea what happened to her afterwards.
I think I am frustrated with how overly defensive people are of this particular film, like it’s become a culture war thing to like it because the right-wing has been manufacturing outrage over it