> “Any reading is good reading” is an attitude that’s true and useful for young kids, but is less true as they get older, and not true for most adults.
Stop that. That kind of gatekeeping is why people don’t read.
Reading doesn’t have to be good, in the way people mean when they try to paint reading as good, is the thing. Not more so than anything else. It’s usually not, and that’s ok. I’m advocating the opposite of gatekeeping.
Nobody makes these weird claims about how great and beneficial watching TV is, but people do it anyway. I think some of us failing to over-praise reading isn’t why people don’t read.
Stop that. That kind of gatekeeping is why people don’t read.