If strangers at a party are talking about football and I go up to them and, before I join the conversation, they say “we’re talking about last night’s game,” I do not into a speech about CTE and the NFL and corporate media and how they should be spending their time.

I, as someone who hates football with every speck of my stardust, go to the other side of the room and start my own conversation about that or *anything I decide to talk about.*