The gender-flipped High Fidelity feels divorced from reality, but it creates its own world.
has many charms. One is that it takes place in a surreptitiously modified alternate universe. Admittedly, at no point does the Hulu series—based on the John Cusack film based on the Nick Hornby novel about a lovelorn record store owner who hides from his heartbreak by obsessively ranking his life experiences—announce, reveal,
Like Cusack’s Rob, Kravitz’s is immature, a charmingly self-pitying introvert who wallows and self-flagellates in an appealing way. She too cares more about good taste than kind behavior. She bonds with Simon because they both believe that what you like—the music, the books, the art—is so much more important than anything else about you, a convenient formulation for Rob, whose taste is impeccable but whose behavior is less so.
This is not because boys are natively wonks and factoid lovers who care so much more about playlists than women do. It’s because the way we have been taught to gather and share knowledge, what kind of knowledge we’ve been taught is valuable, and the way we connect with other human beings are all so deeply gendered. Accumulating and sharing stats and factoids is one way men bond, talk, and play with one another.
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