I have always been a fan of people who critique the 'canon' and point out how hierarchies and economics influence aesthetics, and that aesthetics and good taste don't exist in an eternal ivory tower vacuum. But then she defends instead one of the most 'patriarchal' form of mass-produced cultural trash around instead, on the grounds that "girls like it"?
I can only assume that she is indeed being slightly mischievous with this stuff, seeing what she can get away with within academia, and it's rooted in her own personal guilty pleasures. She's probably too interesting and strange for the PC faggotry thread.