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Mar. 2nd, 2007 01:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
veronica_richI actually really don't like drama. But it seems if you have an opinion on something, you're a magnet for the stuff - and since I share my opinions freely, I guess I should quit bitching and accept it. *G*
Someone whose journal I read posted a link to discussion. So, I rather stupidly reply to the journal I read, not to the original discussion, which I probably should've done instead: I've never been converted to ANYTHING that I knew I didn't like before reading about it, in fanfic or otherwise, a romantic pairing or otherwise. I know my own mind pretty well that way. There are plenty of things in fiction, however, about which I have had no preexisting opinion until I read a story, and then liked it (or disliked it, as the case may be). (My reply does expand beyond pairings and fanfic into general fiction. Perhaps I didn't make it clear I was only talking about fiction.)
Shortly thereafter, another commenter tells me: Well, that must save you a LOT of thinking time. How efficient of you! Form an opinion and close the subject forever. Next!
I wonder why more folks don't operate on your system (which I call 'Mind Rusted Shut')? Oh, I know! Because *they* aren't too lazy or scared or narrow-minded or whatever to re-think their positions in light of new information received. Huh. Go figure. How wishy-washy of them!
I don't believe it's fair to the person who runs the journal I commented in, to have to put up with this there, since it's not aimed at them. So, if Anonymous wants to trot over here and proceed to convince me why I shouldn't have any solid preferences in my fiction-reading, they're welcome to try.
Someone whose journal I read posted a link to discussion. So, I rather stupidly reply to the journal I read, not to the original discussion, which I probably should've done instead: I've never been converted to ANYTHING that I knew I didn't like before reading about it, in fanfic or otherwise, a romantic pairing or otherwise. I know my own mind pretty well that way. There are plenty of things in fiction, however, about which I have had no preexisting opinion until I read a story, and then liked it (or disliked it, as the case may be). (My reply does expand beyond pairings and fanfic into general fiction. Perhaps I didn't make it clear I was only talking about fiction.)
Shortly thereafter, another commenter tells me: Well, that must save you a LOT of thinking time. How efficient of you! Form an opinion and close the subject forever. Next!
I wonder why more folks don't operate on your system (which I call 'Mind Rusted Shut')? Oh, I know! Because *they* aren't too lazy or scared or narrow-minded or whatever to re-think their positions in light of new information received. Huh. Go figure. How wishy-washy of them!
I don't believe it's fair to the person who runs the journal I commented in, to have to put up with this there, since it's not aimed at them. So, if Anonymous wants to trot over here and proceed to convince me why I shouldn't have any solid preferences in my fiction-reading, they're welcome to try.
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Date: 2007-03-06 08:23 am (UTC)