Genre Bashing

I made a reply to somebody yesterday and said "I wouldn't read Young Adult lit at gunpoint" and since then several people have emailed me asking why I'm bashing the genre.

I'm actually not. It's just a matter of personal taste.

Let's say you and I are eating out. For dessert you order strawberry pie and I order pecan pie.

"Why didn't you order strawberry pie?" You ask.

"I don't like strawberry pie." I reply.

In this scenario, has anybody ever in the history of the world said "WHY ARE YOU BASHING STRAWBERRY PIE?!?!?"

No, they haven't. They instantly realize it's a matter of personal taste.

So why do we do this all the time when it's about novels, movies, or TV shows?

I'll go further. Why do we need a reason to not like something when it's TV shows, movies, or novels when we never ask for a reason if somebody doesn't like a type of food? Seriously, why is that? I talk online a lot about shows and movies and books and I keep running into the same bizarre thing: people who would never consider asking why you don't like liver and onions are demanding to know why you don't like Twilight or The Office or a certain genre of fiction.

So getting back to Young Adult fiction, nothing against it at all. I just prefer pecan pie to strawberry pie. And no, I don't know why.