The things they disapproved of were limited but definite, including:

-fat Asians (for surely no principles prizing individuality could operate to question the fact that Asians were not, by their common genetic ancestry, predisposed to obesity; therefore, fat Asians have no one to blame but themselves.)

-shoe trees

-the expression, in its common usage, it is what it is (under certain circumstances it seemed like it could be the stuff of paltry revelation but as it is often used it seems to say something at times when silence would suffice).

-the way twins are so proud of their status like - as Flannery O'Connor has said - they thought up the damn idea.

-Bulgar wheat

-improv troupes (because if they were either as concerned with the present and contemporaneous as they'd have us believe or really a troupe at all, they'd be fighting in the new war.)

-the way people say sex symbol when they really just mean sexy person (there are very few sex symbols but they are all emblematic of genitalia with small heads or gaping mouths)

-decorative landscaping (though she loved corsage)

-ginger snaps

-artichokes