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With me, it seems like it's totally the reverse: On other blogs, I've encountered posters who, when I write anything about West Side Story, they seem to like to make fun of me, because for a number of reasons, they do not like this film, which is their prerogative. Two or three of these bloggers are mental health councilors who, in real life, work with troubled kids from lower socioeconomic backgrounds and/or who reside in third-world communities. Another one or two of them grew up in Boston and who think that West Side Story is too disgusting, and too stereotypical of all workingclass kids, white or nonwhite, as being in gangs and involved in gang activity. Others, who for whatever reason, just appear to have a sort of contempt for West Side Story and, like all the rest of these people that I've mentioned, believe that this great movie-musical classic is for children and adolescents, and that because it's my alltime favorite film, that I'm not considered worthy of respect in their eyes, because they think that I'm not a normal person.
Moreover, these are forums that anybody is supposed to be able to write about whatever is on his/her mind, and, the fact that they're that way mean that they have issues themselves, imho. Also, however, many, if not most of these people are considerably younger than me, and, for them, WSS is too unrealistic, too white-bread, too stereotypical, and boring. So, at least in part, for the above-mentioned reason(s), I stopped posting on those particular blogs. No use staying on a blog where I'm not especially welcome, if one gets the drift. Heh