I am a woman who finds much pleasure in lame things. I will go to a theme park or local carnival with the same joy in my heart as I did when I was a child living it up at Six Flags Over Texas. I invite kitschy, low-culture things into my life because they’re just so fun!  

While that’s all true, I respect people who have no time for theme parks or other expensive experiences. Everybody is different, and not all low-culture fun is for everybody. Maybe someone will gleefully participate in an escape room but refuse to ride on a carnival ride. We all have different tastes and interests; there’s nothing wrong with that. That’s why I find it absurd that an adult son recently went viral on Reddit for storming out of his mother’s Renaissance fair-themed 50th birthday party because she wasn’t jazzed about his fiancee’s Disney Park bachelorette party.