"I'm a dork", so what?

"I’m a dork", so what?
So if you’ve seen Sydney White (and the seven dorks) the Amanda Bynes version of Snow White you know there’s a scene where everyone even the coolest kids on campus stand up and admit that they’re dorks. Well the combination of catching Sydney on HBO and re-watching Twilight last night has me questioning what’s considered "dorky" these days.
Last week when Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince came out I couldn’t find anyone within an eight hundred-miles (Anna) willing to go see it with me. Yet, I can’t even begin to count the billions of dollars that the HP franchise of seven books and six (will be eight) films has grossed. All that I know that HP author J.K. Rowling is the richest woman in Great Britain after Queen Elizabeth and ranks closely with Oprah as one of the richest women of independent means. But when I was talking about wanting to go see HP one of my friends told me that HP "wasn’t cool". Okay, so I kind of knew this, but frankly I don’t care. It seems to me like fans of the HP series, the Twilight saga, Lord of the Rings, whatever trilogy type movies you care for have to be ashamed. But I ask you, if people feel like nerds or dorks, etc. for being fans of such series, why? I mean, there are a lot more HP and Twilight fans out there than "Gossip Girl" or "90210" fans, but I get dissed for thinking Edward Cullen’s cute? I don’t get it. And the other thing that gets me are all these closet fans. It’s like when a few years back everyone and their neighbor was saying Britney Spears was awful, yet she was still at the top of the charts. If everyone thinks these movies are uncool, then who’s paying to go see them?
I think that people try way too hard to be cool or to fit into a stereotype. We’ve all done it. But, I’ll tell you right now, I like those trilogy movies, because they’re entertaining, I also like indie films that no one has ever heard of, and don’t get me started on my adoration for made for t.v. Disney and Lifetime movies too, I like what I like and I’m not ashamed of it. That’s not only with movies, but with t.v. shows and music too. I’m just a little bit over everyone judging what other people like. Let it be.