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Originally Posted by Katsunami
"I'm going to... <<enter some activity>>. What are you going to do this week... oh. Yeah. Enjoy your book. *giggle*"
That's how quite a lot of people I know react to reading as a hobby (or any other hobby requiring mental effort or practice, for that matter).
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It appears there are two kinds of elitism. One is that which is available only to wealthy, connected powerful elites, and another which is available to anyone, but is perceived as being "uppity". Terry Pratchett writes about the "crab bucket". He observes that with a bucket full of crabs, the crabs will not escape because other crabs will pull them back down. Mocking someone for reading is really just a way of attempting to establish dominance over them. If you don't give a crap what they think, they have no power over you. Such people are of no interest to me.