(Reality is all misogyny. It is a conservative genre).
You'll recognize the essential conservatism of R&B, a genre of many incarnations, even when it's grafted onto hip-hop, an equally conservative genre.
Then there are those sports movies, another fairly conservative genre that inflates the rules of any game into a worthy code to live by.
Popular music has always been a notoriously conservative genre, one in which the slightest deviation from the norm — whether in song structure, song length or instrumentation — is often dismissed as gross self-indulgence, even self-sabotage.
These days, hip-hop is an increasingly conservative genre, and Yo Majesty's sexuality — along with their tendency to conclude their performances with some toplessness — will probably be discussed more than their music on the message boards and comment threads that form hip-hop's online town square.
It's too bad Laura Miller wasn't around to persuade Tolstoy that historical fiction is, as she puts it in her review of Stephen Wright's "Amalgamation Polka" (Feb. 19), a "safe, even conservative, genre, attractive to writers who aren't looking to go out on a limb".
To be highfalutin' about it, you could say that comedy has always been a conservative genre – that these films adhere to the saturnalian tradition, framed by such critics as CL Barber and Mikhail Bakhtin, whereby social norms are inverted for a brief, pre-ordained period, only to snap back into place.
I think reality TV is largely a conservative genre.
Vendil incorporates fashion into all of NCP's productions, bringing a refreshing edge to the widely conservative genre.
My favourite review was by a Texan who said: Why was a Canadian given the right to edit the journals of Billy the Kid?" "Fiction," Ondaatje says, "is the most conservative of genres - still mostly handcuffed to realism".
