An analogy

[feuervogel]

Vis a vis yesterday's weemo post.

I feel like there's this wine everyone keeps telling me is awesome, and I keep trying it and not liking it. Or any wine at all, for that matter (though I can drink a fairly sweet Riesling or Gewürztraminer; I'd still rather not.)

Wine is classy. Wine has cachet.

I drink beer. Granted, you won't see me with PBR or Bud or American macrobrews (with the exception of Sam Adams, which is borderline macro, I guess). I'm kind of a beer snob.

De gustibus non disputandum est; however, wine drinkers can still make beer drinkers feel like uncultured heathens.

Comments

[quinfirefrorefiddle]

I'm fairly certain this is why my dad's side of the family drinks Scotch, actually.

[feuervogel]

Talk about beverages with a high class-cachet!

[yhibiki]

That's how I feel about movies a lot of times. :X I hate "films," but people look down on me for enjoying silly action movies.

*grumbles*

[luckykitty.livejournal.com]

It's all just taste. Sneering between camps makes little sense. *You* choose whether to give into your own insecurities or not. Especially in this case.

I think your analogy only holds insofar as someone repeatedly recommending wine to you when you dislike wine. You just don't like it. Nobody holds that against you, there's no wine-lover's club disdaining you; there may be one or two jackasses who think you're uncultured for it, but you can ignore it. If you know you prefer "beer" and are well-educated in beers, have pride in that and don't worry about the rest.

Because when a beer drinker makes me feel like an ass for not knowing X or Y microbrew, I know it's just because I'm insecure that they're getting to me, and that they're really the ones who are being jerks.

[matt_doyle]

The only wines I have ever enjoyed have been communion wines (or wines that TASTED like communion wines) that taste like tart, rich grape juice, my wine-loving friends have despaired as a result, because the only lower-brow thing I could do was genuinely like Night Train....

[doctorskuld.livejournal.com]

I agree that it's all just about tastes. I have some wino friends who are constantly recommending wine to me, but I'm a beer person, and that's where my palate is and where my preferences are at this point in my life.

Don't feel like it's something that's wrong or defective with you (that's just your insecurity getting to you), it's just taste, and taste differs. There's no need to get snarky or sneer at different groups of people for what they prefer.

[corbae.livejournal.com]

trufax writing advice, from Some Author Dude on the Internets: "Don't be one of those writers who sentence themselves to a lifetime of sucking up to Nabokov." (ling (http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/feb/20/ten-rules-for-writing-fiction-part-one))