LogFAQs > #904363222

Disclaimer: I skipped most of the posts in the second half of the topic because I got bored.

One thing I've noticed (on this board mostly, but it probably applies in general too) is that people get more defensive and offended about somebody disliking something the more articulate the person is who dismisses it. If you casually trash something people feel comfortable reacting with "well that's just, like, your opinion, man", and don't pay it much heed. But when an argument is erudite and eloquent, regardless of how important the media in question is to the greater whole of the debate, people tend to feel (at least how I see it) that a good deal of effort and thought has been put into destroying their or someone's else's beloved, and take it more personally without good cause.

I've seen people trash Sailor Moon a dozen times here. I've seen so many works derided as schlock or overrated or garbage, yet the vast majority of the time people who like those media are reasonable in response, or just don't care. The only times I really see people get more than a little upset at another opinion is when scarlet posts something, when somebody else makes a well thought-out point, or when I state my Marvel opinions (and I'm a little purposefully iconoclastic).

people, chill. it was an opinion. you dont need to feel so attacked because he put fancy words and well-constructed grammar around it. I promise you that there are 30 other users here that fucking hate sailor moon too. fixate on them if you must
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