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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jdrakeh" data-source="post: 2927700" data-attributes="member: 13892">The "right" or "wrong' labels are applied by consumers after products are written - no given genre classification is inherently right or wrong, this isn't a problem with the classification system, but with the people applying said labels. Let's not lay the blame for divergent personal tastes at the feet of the genre classification system - personal tastes are, after all, personal. Yes, but again, this has very little to do with the genre classification system itself and almost everything to do with personal tastes and the declaration thereof. For instance, most of the debates in [this thread, don't center on the common definition of the genre classification "fantasy" but on a few wild individual revisions of that definition (i.e., personal tastes) after the fact. No, it really doesn't - like all classification systems, genre is applied after a work is written in order to organize it, not prior to the work being written in order to govern its creation. Very few (if any) authors sit down with a checklist of genre tenets when they put pen to paper.</blockquote>