Why are you putting forth opinions about something that you admit you don't actually know much about?

How about if I wrote an "opinion" piece about how, with the exception of Oscar Wilde, there hasn't been much interesting or novel going on in the British theater since Shakespeare? After all, that's the way that it seems to me. I don't actually know much about British theater, but still, that's how it feels to me, and so therefore must be a truth worth putting out there to the public (who follow me specifically to learn what I think about things). I could then posit that since you've never mentioned explicitly to me any British plays or playwrights that you find particularly compelling, it must be because there aren't any. You once wrote a story about a play that you wrote, but since you failed to mention in that story the history of the British theater and any interesting or noteworthy playwrights, I guess it must be because you didn't have anything positive to say about any of them.

Does that feel fine to you? Does it make sense? Do you appreciate having your name attached to something that you know a lot about and are interested in that has been trivialized and mischaracterized out of laziness and desire to drive traffic? Do you like the idea of me speculating on something that you care about that I freely admit I don't know a whole lot about - and that I recognize that you do have expertise in?

I am going to write a response - and then probably about 4 other stories to go into greater depth about some of the many things you've shown no understanding of and yet felt quite fine about offering opinions about.

In the future, please leave my name out of your stories. I don't wish to spend the vast majority of my time on Medium doing clean-up work and rebuttals to disinformation.