In the past, students of feminism were reluctant to confront women's affection for popular culture, as they believed that this was tainted consciousness and dismissed it as such. Their way of dismissing it was to completely remove themselves from it, but most women are unable to do that.
在過去，女性主義的研究者較不願去面對女性對通俗文化的喜愛，認為那是個壞意識，而把它否定掉，否定的方法就是跟它一刀兩斷；但大部分的女人做不到。