I have a question for you.
Are they making fun of Zelda as an
excuse to make fun of you, or is their mock of Zelda actually directed at the series? Because if it's the former, then consider that they are simply looking to bully by means of anything about you they may deem worth picking on. You could have been talking about how much you like
strawberries, and they might have butted in and done the same thing. Honestly, you don't want to be hanging around those types of people anyway. Though it may help to know that
usually, any taunts directed at others from these types of people are in fact done as a means of hiding and directing attention away from their
own abundance of insecurities.
That being said, I would not be surprised to hear people shamelessly mocking Zelda. I still freshly remember the kinds of flaming, irrational, shockingly ignorant comments many G4 users were making during the G4 Deathmatch in the rounds where Zelda versed Halo, Assassin's Creed, and Starcraft, so I absolutely understand how that could go.
Why do they make fun of it? I'll tell you why they make fun of it; it's because they have a tendency to
judge without proper
reasoning. This is in fact a common tendency among people despite it being so flawed; in spite of the cliché saying "
don't judge a book by its cover," the first impression you are going to have when you pick up a book will be accredited to it's outward appearance--it's title and
cover. Deep within its pages could be hidden the most magnificent, enthralling tale that might ever cross the threshold into the reaches of your imagination, yet if the title is "
The Ugly Clown in the Pink Tutu," you are going to sit there and
laugh and
laugh until you are blue in the face, and then you are going to toss the book behind you without ever so much as opening
once to the first page with any serious unbiased intent to give it a real read. You might then choose to judge that "
this book is stupid!" and proceed to make fun of it however you see fit. Yet, what you have essentially just judged is only your
impression of the book, as opposed to the actual
content within. The people who make such judgments do not realize that there is such a distinction, and so long as they lack an intimate awareness of the content within, their judgments remain superficial and fail to address what lies beneath the surface.
This case would be completely different however, were they to actually open the book, become soundly acquainted with what was inside, and
then decide that what they found was worthy of ridicule. Such a judgment would at least be rooted in a legitimate first-hand
basis for that judgment, and thus could be faulted no more than any disagreeable opinion that a person may have on the subject matter. However this is
not the case with people that usually make fun of Zelda. As people have been saying above, once they are actually exposed to the "real pages" boasting the richness of the series, they are forced to realize that their initial judgments--based upon mere outer
impressions--fall
leagues from applying to the actual
content; thus their initial flimsily supported judgments fall away in place of real, sound judgments that can only see the series for what it actually is. (Simplified version: Once they actually play Zelda, they can no longer deny or make any excuses that try to resist the greatness it commands, manifest in its lavish experience as it unfurls before them ever so enticingly. Try to see if
that won't win them over.
)
Long story short: get them to
play it. See if they can still manage to get out
any words of mockery out of their mouths
then. (They'll be so intensely focused on trying to figure out the Water Temple, they'll hardly remember they ever had such thoughts. ^^)
I think that just about sums up what I wanted to say. May the people who thoughtlessly sneer in the face of Zelda one day realize the worth of what they're missing. Though just remember, in the end it won't be
your loss if they never do; it'll only be theirs!
