sometimes I really do desire that we might be better strangers.
Dear other people teaching for this class,
Okay, I get it, you don't like As You Like It. You can really stop telling me that now. Because we've had this conversation a lot of times in the last couple of years, and at this point, you're just doing it to bait me. (Seriously, one of them actually did the whole "ooh, them's fightin' words!" thing.) I don't care that you don't like it; plenty of people don't. But you don't have to be so smug about how clever you are not to like the play, or comedies in general, okay?
It's just--I don't go around telling you about how stupid the plays *you* like best are. And I certainly don't imply that the fact that I don't like them is anything more than my subjective opinion or what happens to push my particular buttons. I don't call your favorite plays "facile," or talk about how uninteresting plays that end tragically are, the way you constantly feel compelled to do whenever we do a comedy. (I also don't dismiss your opinions by saying things like, "Nope, you're wrong, two against one!" either, but that's a different rant.)
(Yes, we're doing As You Like It this week.)
Okay, I get it, you don't like As You Like It. You can really stop telling me that now. Because we've had this conversation a lot of times in the last couple of years, and at this point, you're just doing it to bait me. (Seriously, one of them actually did the whole "ooh, them's fightin' words!" thing.) I don't care that you don't like it; plenty of people don't. But you don't have to be so smug about how clever you are not to like the play, or comedies in general, okay?
It's just--I don't go around telling you about how stupid the plays *you* like best are. And I certainly don't imply that the fact that I don't like them is anything more than my subjective opinion or what happens to push my particular buttons. I don't call your favorite plays "facile," or talk about how uninteresting plays that end tragically are, the way you constantly feel compelled to do whenever we do a comedy. (I also don't dismiss your opinions by saying things like, "Nope, you're wrong, two against one!" either, but that's a different rant.)
(Yes, we're doing As You Like It this week.)