It could be partly my taste. It's just my belief that there are female characters that will benefit from not being vulnerable.
Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.
The liberal professions, and in a wider sense the well-to-do classes, are certainly those with the liveliest taste for knowledge and the most active intellectual life.
A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.