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Originally Posted by gwhite
It does seem that I stand rebuked.
"Judgemental" is probably accurate but then we are all judgemental, all day and every day so what you seem to be objecting to, is that to be so is somehow out of place in this forum. If this is meant to be a sterile exchanging of opinions of what one likes in terms of books then you may well be right. But then books are subversive and dangerous in that they are about the exchange of ideas, and some may say that ideas may not be restricted by middle-class ideas of "niceness".
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So being polite, civil, and tolerant of personal tastes are bourgeois notions and evidence of sterility of thought?
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As hard as I may try, when someone comments that they find P G Wodehouse's writings as "offensive" then "preference" or not, it does seem to warrant a reply.
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I don't think you tried very hard at all. That is not what the OP said about Wodehouse. The OP said:
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I like many genres, including detective fiction, speculative fiction, sci-fi, comedy like Wodehouse (though I found some parts offensive), etc.
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Since the OP specifically used Wodehouse as an example of something he or she likes, it's rather hard to understand how you interpreted that comment as a wholesale condemnation of Wodehouse as "offensive."