So that happened... Whedon's “history of creating toxic and hostile work environments”

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This whole discussion about genre fiction being for children (or not) is an inappropriate hijack in this thread, but I thought it was an interesting discussion, so I made a separate thread about it:

Are some genres "for kids"?

Into the thread about Joss Whedon, @Manwich dropped an accusation that genre fiction is for children. This led to some discussion that was an irrelevant hijack in that thread, but I thought it was worth discussing, so I created this separate thread. So: Is genre fiction (in whatever medium—movies, books, etc.) in general, or some specific genres, “for kids”? It seems like the obvious answer should be “No, that’s just elitist snobbery.” And yet I can’t help thinking there’s more to it than that…