What Is It? Don't Judge Lest Ye Be Judged? Or Something Like That

One thing about my friends that I value very highly is that they love me for me. They accept me as I am, quirks and flaws and all. They support me in what I do-whether or not they approve is another story, but no matter what, they are there for me. And, most of all, they do not judge me for my actions and a decisions.

I spent the better part of my Friday night, it felt like, being judged and treated unfairly. This was upsetting. I had been so excited to see MN and hang out and just relax and talk and watch TV and whatever. I had also been expecting someone who I thought very highly of. Instead I found myself faced with awkwardness and condescension. I think he thought he was just joking, but, uh, telling me how your ex-girlfriend gets drunk off of one glass of wine and then saying to me, "yeah, you might take more like 8 or 9 glasses" isn't really funny. I also don't appreciate you not taking what I have to say seriously. Like when you tell me you break up with a girl because you can't see it being a long distance relationship, but then you only seem to use your online dating profile to talk to girls you deem attractive enough, and try to leave things out of your profile. When I try and talk to you about this, you just shoot me down. It's fine what you want to do, but don't ask my opinion on things and then not even let me get them out. 

Too frustrating.

In another, shorter, more interesting story (that those of you who follow me on twitter have heard my 3 post rant about): Today after work I was talking to a coworker about how awful the music is, and she said that the employees should be allowed to pick the music with management approval. I joked and said I would pick all Rolling Stones, to which she replied "oh the Rolling Stones are awful." WHAT!?!?!? Weirdly, I immediately thought of something I had learned in my Senior Symposium "History of Rock and Roll" class, which was that each generation of music had a good boy/bad boy thing going on. I was explain to her that during the British Invasion, the Beatles were seen as the "good boys" and the Rolling Stones were considered the "bad boys". She then proceeded to try and tell me that she didn't think the British Invasion was really an Invasion because it only consisted of one band (the Beatles), and that saying it was an invasion was like saying that Swine Flu is a pandemic. I then tried to explain, along with another coworker who jumped into the conversation, that it wasn't just one band, that it was a lot of bands and was a huge thing back then because there really was no access to international music in the 60's, and she said that "it wasn't an invasion because all the bands besides the Beatles sucked." and that my other coworker and I were "the only people she knew within a 50-75 mile radius that even liked the Rolling Stones or the Who." I tried to explain that, if we were the only ones who did, why were classic rock stations so popular and why were the Rolling Stones and the Who such huge fixtures, and why, if the Rolling Stones sucked so much, are they able to sell out complete TOURS and be featured on the Superbowl halftime show over 40 years after they arrived and with Mick and Keith looking like they do? She also tried to fight us and make the argument that these bands didn't write their own music. 

^-----How is this kind of musical ignorance possible?! I understand, to each their own opinion whether or not you like a certain group or sound or genre, but you can't deny that there is some musical merit to these groups and that what they did when they did it was huge! To make sweeping, blanket statements about music that it almost seems you know nothing about! I may not like heavy metal music, but I understand that to sing it takes large amounts of talent, and that there are a great many people who do enjoy it and appreciate it. Maybe as a singer and just an overall appreciator of music I can grasp this? I understand if you don't like a group, but still...