You are not entitle to project your insecurities onto others

Okay, it's human nature, we all do it now and then.

BUT, really, if you are, say, feeling insecure because you chose to write in a genre where it might be easier to get published and you might make a decent living, not because you loved it from the bottom of your toes since you were eight, don't turn around and then trash people writing in genres that you once aspired to. Sure, bust them when they are snooty, they need it! But don't trash the genre!!!!

Or maybe you are film director of the biggest box office movie in history. Don't turn around and trash Little Miss Sunshine just because it's got more heart per budget dollar than anything you produce ever will....(bitter much? not me!)....

You are not entitled to project your own insecurities on other people or institutions, just because you are feeling insecure. Whether you are an auto-worker looking at another 18 months of unemployment or an English professor at an Ivy League school.

Hmph.