*flees, pursued by scary people*

[andrewducker]

Just scanning the monthly email OKCupid sends me, and was trying to decide which of the following two women were scarier - the one who didn't read, or the one whose favourite book was The Fountainhead.

[Poll #945334]

Comments

[chuma.livejournal.com]

Not reading = scary, how?

[cx650.livejournal.com]

Now YOU are scaring me.

[chuma.livejournal.com]

Well, personally I would say this is arrogant elitism.

[cx650.livejournal.com]

Not really, just compatibility.

[chuma.livejournal.com]

If you are so easily scared by someone who doesn't read books then I think you are limiting your range of "compatible" people considerably. However I was refering to your comment aimed at me directly, not at the original choice between two romantic interests, so compatibility doesn't come into it.

That I hardly ever sit down to read through book is not 'scary' by the very definition of the word, infact I don't even think it is unusual. That is not to say I never read of course, but due to the nature of my work as a programmer and my interests, the majority of words I read are on websites. I find it a whole lot less cumbersome than having to hold onto a book with both hands and winding up with a sore neck.

[cx650.livejournal.com]

My response was intended to be light-hearted, but to follow your serious lead I can only say this. I don't really find you or any other non-reader scary as such. I just find conversation extremely difficult with anybody at all who does not share some kind of frame of reference. e.g. my Dad, in almost all respects we a very compatible indeed but conversation between the two of us is all but impossible because as a non-reader he fails to understand or even recognise many of my observations or comments. He is in all other aspects a very intelligent and capable man so I find this frustrating. My problem, not his.