The question “hold on, why are you paying attention to this stuff and not to that stuff?” is a) fundamental, b) often hard to ask politely, c) very much in the interests of the attention-payers not to answer.
I’m late to this party - and I’m sort of not getting into tumblr, so it’s vanishingly pointless of me to respond to this. The question is not fundamental at all - it is usually a presumptuous (“I paid enough attention for my liking, thank you”) and invidious way of wrapping the fundamental and unreasonable question ‘why don’t you like what i like as much as I do’ with something intended to sound reasonable. It is a cunt’s trick.
(Source: alexmacpherson)