The Controversial Topic of Liking Things
ociety has created a stigma surrounding what you should be allowed to like. Gatekeeping is “the activity of controlling, and usually limiting, general access to something” (Oxford English Dictionary, 2020). Let me give you a very surface-level example of gatekeeping: I watch Haikyuu and proceed to say that I like anime, but I don’t “actually” like anime, the anime expert tells me because I “haven’t
