Writer's Block: You Don't Know Me

[koganbot]

You Don't Know Me
Our friends don't always know us as well as they think, particularly when it comes to likes and dislikes. Which popular book, movie, band, food, TV show, etc. would your friends be surprised to hear that you don't like?

It probably depends on whether by "friends" you mean my flist or my irl friends - though either way I don't know how to answer, since my flist friends are used to my likes and dislikes and either already know 'em all or have so come to expect the unexpected from me that nothing I like or dislike surprises them. My irl friends, on the other hand, generally don't know enough about the books, movies, bands, food, TV shows, etc. that I like/dislike to be surprised.

So I don't know how to answer this. I mean, like, you're SURPRISED that I don't like cooked carrots except in sauces? "Oh, that Frank, I always thought of him as a cooked-carrots kind of guy. This really throws me for a loop."

"Oh, so Frank dislikes that utterly twee, utterly awful Herman Dune track, 'On A Saturday'? What a shock!" (I myself was surprised that Lex gave it a middling score rather than a zero.)

Um, I just couldn't connect to Young Jeezy's "Don't Do It." Maybe that'll surprise the five of you who know and love "Don't Do It" and are aware of my general liking for Young Jeezy.

(Frank on the street, to friend, "You'll be surprised to learn that I just can't connect to Young Jeezy's 'Don't Do It.'" "To Young Whosey's what?")

Comments

[koganbot]

Said this over on skyecaptain's post:

A way to think about this question would be, "What, if [various people] knew it about me, would change their perception of me?" Whereas what most people are actually answering seems to be, "What is well-regarded that I dislike?" or "What, given what I'd heard about it, am I surprised not to like?" But answers to those questions don't necessarily relate to how people's perception of you would change, now that they know.

Another interesting question might be, "How has my dislike of ______, which I'd expected to like, changed my perception of who I am or of how I relate to my peers?"