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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lord Pendragon" data-source="post: 2649359" data-attributes="member: 707">I have trouble with people making backhanded judgments about other people's taste, and then coyly denying it when called out.  And if your posts have shown anything, they've shown that you are more than intelligent enough to have been well-aware of what you were doing.As far as having trouble with people not liking something I do like, it must be a selective trouble, then, since I had no problem whatsoever with Crothian asserting that he didn't like any of the Robert Jordan books he's read, despite the fact that I stated I thought the second book, The Great Hunt was one of the best fantasy novels I've ever read.  It's almost as if my trouble isn't with people disliking things I like, but rather with people whose commentary exudes casual arrogance.I make a distinction between saying "this is my critical opinion" and saying "this is my critical opinion, which is undeniable fact."  Your position does make me curious, though.  In the years you spent earning whatever degrees you alluded to earlier, how exactly did you reconcile those instances when you received less than a perfect mark for a critical analysis, perhaps because the professor had a different view of "general reality" than you did?I'm not in school any more, takyris, and to be perfectly honest with you, it's simply not worth my time.</blockquote>