[ SECRET POST #6973 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6973 ⌋

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When people say "I wouldn't have expected *you* to be reading that" or "I judge people who read [thing I read]", I never know quite what to say.

I mean, we all contain multitudes, right? I have to have diversity on my plate of food to avoid physical malnourishment, I have to have diversity on my shelf of books to avoid mental malnourishment.

Sorry, I guess?

[(Anonymous)]

Anyone who judges people for reading something should be shunned. I hope their pillow is always lumpy, their socks are always damp, and they continually get their clothes caught on handles.

[(Anonymous)]

"Why?" seems like a good starting point

[(Anonymous)]

I just say OK and change the subject. They’re opening a door to a rant that nine times out of ten is totally unhinged. I don’t walk through that door.

[(Anonymous)]

My mother is so weird like this.

Not so much at me, since she already knows my “low-brow” tastes. But she’ll be so surprised and half-ironically scandalized to discover that her friends like certain things.

I try to gently push back on it, but sometimes I just roll my eyes.

[(Anonymous)]

I've been a bookworm all my life, so having a wide range of books just makes sense to me. If I only stuck to one genre or one type, I'd be a lot more stretched for reading material and why do that to myself? There's so much out there, might as well sample from the buffet.

[(Anonymous)]

I totally get you. Some people are so weird about that like. I'm not allowed to like multiple things? Or like things that are...really different from one another?

[(Anonymous)]

Usually I say something like "I know, right? But it's so good!" and just own it.

[(Anonymous)]

"A lion doesn't concern himself with the opinions of the sheep."

Although, seriously, life has taught me curiosity is better than judgment. Being judgmental over others' interests is immature.

[(Anonymous)]

I talked once with a colleague. And she was telling how her child only later started reading and only reads some "shit" like fantasy and sci-fi and never classics. She tried insisting on some classics.

Wooow, I wonder why her child didn't like to read /s