Accepting the Masses

Having grown up with games almost constantly being a part of my life, I feel as if I hold the hobby a bit close to the heart. For as long as I can remember I have been playing games. From my first life in Super Mario Bros. on some Christmas morning of my youth to pumping quarters into a MKII machine at a local skating rink, to earlier this morning where I was playing my friend in Super Street Fighter IV over the internet. 
 
Clearly, things have come a long way, even in the last 20 years. This has been made really apparent by the release of Blops. 
 
I was chatting with my 15-year-old cousin on Facebook earlier today, just saying hi or whatever. She is....well, she is what a typical 15-year-old girl is in America these days: meaning she is entirely submerged in whatever mainstream bullshit is popular these days. So I was really surprised when she told me she had been playing Black Ops all day yesterday.  
 
She doesn't play games.  
Yet she plays Black Ops, and for some reason this genuinely bothered me. 
 
It seems anytime anything from our little subculture (God, I hate that term) goes mainstream, I get put off by it. But why? 
 
Maybe it's because of the whole Activision thing, maybe it's because I've fallen to the "Cool Kid Syndrome" where anything people like I refuse to accept, or maybe it's just from growing up where if you played games all day you were a loser, and now the head cheerleader is headshotting fools in Headquarters and posting "jus p0wned n000bs in CoD. weeeeeeeeerd biatchs" on Facebook (this is not far from an exact quote, heartbreaking as it is).  
 
I feel very hypocritical in that I'm sure Black Ops is a great game, and I'm planning on picking it up with my next paycheck, but I can't shake this sense of... not wanting to become a part of that side of gaming. The same as the 12-year-old kids on Halo spouting racial slurs and the idiots fighting over which console is better than the other.  
 
But I will, because I want to play good games, even if it has to be with the other, more obnoxious side of the hobby.  

 
Tl,DR: People suck, but putting on good music and kicking back in your comfy chair to shoot fools is always a good time.