{"id":15976,"date":"2017-09-14T13:09:05","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T18:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/?p=15976"},"modified":"2017-09-14T13:09:05","modified_gmt":"2017-09-14T18:09:05","slug":"lifes-guilty-pleasures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/tartan-news\/2017\/09\/14\/lifes-guilty-pleasures\/","title":{"rendered":"Life’s Guilty Pleasures"},"content":{"rendered":"

What is a guilty pleasure? Usually it is some form of entertainment we like that is so embarrassing to us that we only tell our closest friends. <\/span><\/p>\n

Yet what makes a pleasure guilty? The quality of it? The overall content and message of the work? Or the stigma that comes from liking that certain thing? <\/span><\/p>\n

I wonder if it is healthy to keep these things secret though? For example, I love professional wrestling, and up until about 3 years ago kept it secret from everyone I knew except the one or two friends that liked it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Pro-wrestling has always had a stigma of low-class trashiness to it that I didn\u2019t want to be associated with. \u201cYou know it\u2019s fake, right,\u201d would be the only comments I\u2019d hear about it, and made me ashamed to like it. <\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019d buy t-shirts that I\u2019d never wear, and make Facebook posts or Tweets about it that would end up getting deleted before they were published. <\/span><\/p>\n

I only had one friend who liked wrestling all throughout high school, and he didn\u2019t fit the traditional wrestling stereotype. Thankfully through my various experiences through jobs and college, I found that there are plenty of great, nice, and normal people who enjoy wrestling. They\u2019re some of the smartest people I know and they\u2019ve become some of my best friends.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now I wear my shirts with pride and have enough confidence to write an article about it, but it took a long time to get to that point because I felt so guilty about liking something. <\/span><\/p>\n

Now, I\u2019m not saying you should profess your love of vulgar or needlessly offensive things that alienate a certain group of people. I\u2019m talking about things in the entertainment world that have a niche interest you like but feel ashamed of.<\/span><\/p>\n

Movies, TV shows, music and any other form of entertainment that is kind of \u201cout there\u201d would qualify. Things that have a cult following are also good examples.<\/span><\/p>\n

All of these things probably have a club or group dedicated to it. It\u2019s easier now than ever before to communicate with people who share a common interest with you through social media sites like Facebook, Tumblr or Reddit. <\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s usually shocking to find someone who likes that same obscure\/niche thing you like, and the only way to find those people is to be open about your guilty pleasures.<\/span><\/p>\n

So wear that John Cena t-shirt, bring your favorite animes to class to read and if you wholeheartedly believe \u201cThe Room\u201d should\u2019ve won the Oscar in 2003, proclaim it with pride. <\/span><\/p>\n

You never know who might like it as well, and the unlikely friendships that can form over that bond.<\/span><\/p>\n

Henry Wolski<\/strong>
\nExecutive Editor<\/p>\n

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