# Elitism that you (ashamedly) participate in. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 24, 2010, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elitism-that-you-ashamedly-participate-in/537232 "2010-04-24T18:42:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![qsecofr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/13edae/32.png) [@qsecofr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/qsecofr)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2010, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elitism-that-you-ashamedly-participate-in/537232/161 "2010-05-08T12:46:56Z")
Tools. I’ll judge you by the brand of your hammer. If it looks like it’s from Wal-Mart, I’ll feel sorry for you. On the other hand, if it’s a _Estwing_ at least I’ll know we have something in common. ---
**Author:** ![FordTaurusSHO94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f07891/32.png) [@FordTaurusSHO94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordTaurusSHO94)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2010, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elitism-that-you-ashamedly-participate-in/537232/162 "2010-05-08T22:50:14Z")
I don’t know if I mentioned it earlier, but I’m picky about bicycle drive trains. For MTB’s, it has to be X9 or XT level stuff or higher. For road bikes, it has to be Rival or 105 level or higher. I also hate DVD’s now that I’m used to Blu-ray and HD-DVD. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2010, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elitism-that-you-ashamedly-participate-in/537232/163 "2010-05-10T15:29:02Z")
> [@hougaswd](#): > > I’m not even slightly embarrassed that I have high standards in what is a mostly crap genre. That’s because genre fiction pretty much by definition isn’t going to be great literature. When it \*is \*really good, we handwave away the normal genre description. Thus, you get something like Rushdie’s \*Midnight’s Children \*being described as “magic realism” instead of “urban fantasy” or “contemporary fantasy.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elitism-that-you-ashamedly-participate-in/537232.md?page=8)