re VLVL2 conservative values & wacky comedy

[Keith McMullen]

 >>> What does it mean to say Zoyd is a bad parent? Such an
assertion only makes sense if you have a clear idea of what 'good
parent' and 'bad parent' mean independently of the (any) fictional
world. This involves an awful lot of value judgements about 'good' and
'bad', all the time taking you further and further from the text. This
means using the text as a vehicle to promote your own beliefs: 'I think
Zoyd is disgusting' = 'I'm not disgusting' = 'I'm an upright citizen'
etc. <<<

 >>> Zoyd is certainly a character designed to offend the bourgeois
sensibility many readers bring to the text.<<<

What does it mean to say, with certainty no less, that Zoyd is designed 
to offend bourgeois sensibilities many readers bring to the text? Such 
an assertion only makes sense if you have a clear, and certain, idea of 
what bourgeois sensibility
means independently of the (any) fictional world. This involves an 
awful lot of value judgments about what is or is not bourgeois, all the 
time taking you further and further from the text. This involves using 
the text as a vehicle to promote your own beliefs: "I think Zoyd is 
created to offend bourgeois sensibilities. Many readers bring bourgeois 
sensibilities. I am not bourgeois like many readers, and I can see how 
this character was designed to offend them. They are criminal readers, 
raping and pillaging the text (unlike me who only occasionally slips in 
the correctness of my reading).