Arrgh. Why is it so hard for some people to understand that "I don't like this" DOES NOT MEAN "this is stupid/bad/harmful/trivial/your adjective here"?
I mean, I don't care for avocadoes. Mention that to an avocado-lover, and 9 times out of 10, they'll say something like "Oh, well, more for me! But I think I saw some baba ghanoush at the other end of the buffet-- do you like eggplant?" Every now and then, they'll question my taste, which is their right. But I've never had someone sit me down and earnestly explain the profound importance of guacamole to Tex-Mex cuisine and the role of oily vegetables in a balanced diet and how the avocado was one of the first domestic cultivars in the new world and much more important to Mesoamerican milpa agriculture than most people know.
Because that would be SILLY.
(And I did like Watchmen, and did find some parts of it new to me, but the novelty was all because I hadn't read a lot of comics and was still learning the conventions of the medium.)
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I mean, I don't care for avocadoes. Mention that to an avocado-lover, and 9 times out of 10, they'll say something like "Oh, well, more for me! But I think I saw some baba ghanoush at the other end of the buffet-- do you like eggplant?" Every now and then, they'll question my taste, which is their right. But I've never had someone sit me down and earnestly explain the profound importance of guacamole to Tex-Mex cuisine and the role of oily vegetables in a balanced diet and how the avocado was one of the first domestic cultivars in the new world and much more important to Mesoamerican milpa agriculture than most people know.
Because that would be SILLY.
(And I did like Watchmen, and did find some parts of it new to me, but the novelty was all because I hadn't read a lot of comics and was still learning the conventions of the medium.)