In Defense of Golf

I engage in a number of pastimes which I consider misunderstood by the public. Generally speaking, I try to be an ambassador for things I enjoy. Not, I stress, an evangelist. You are entitled to your taste and I will never make you apologize for it or try to reshape yours to better-resemble mine, so long as you extend the same considerations to me. People have given me and continue to give me grace for being an adult man who enjoys anime, video games, pro-wrestling, comics, genre fiction (writing it and reading it), anime, and violent or sexually explicit films. But I find certain people, for reasons I don’t think even they fully understand, react viscerally when you tell them you play golf.