Taste

[lillibet]

Lately I've been getting frustrated with an attitude that annoys me. For the record: what you like is not good because you enjoy it; what you do not like is not crap because you do not enjoy it. People who don't share your tastes are not morons. There are plenty of categories of things that I believe are objectively good, but do not care for myself--and things that I enjoy immensely, but believe to actually be fairly awful. Finally, is extremely impolite to point at another person's food (or music, or literature, or anything else) and say "Ewww! How can you eat that?!" If you feel that you must make a comment, something along the lines of "I'm surprised you like that--I've never managed to develop a taste for it" is acceptable. So is silence on the subject. Frankly, I don't care if anyone I know likes mushrooms or Jane Austen--all the more for me!