Country Doesn't (Always) Suck

I'm sick of people who say country music sucks. Some of the most musically open-minded people I know will freely rag on country music. I don't like rock-country, but there is a lot of country music I do like.

Locally, starting on December 1st two of our very few radio stations switch to all Christmas music. I don't hate Christmas music, but there are only three songs I really like - in order - Walking in a Winter Wonderland, Christmas in Killarney, and Blue Christmas. I can stand a few others, but those are the only ones I have to hear.
Missing those two stations, I go up and down the FM. We have three commercial-free stations. I love them, but when they're playing something I don't like, or no one has showed up for a shift so it's dead-air, I put on country. Yes. Yes, I do.

I like real country music. The kind of songs that are usually hilarious, or tear-jerking. I don't like music where the artist is obviously using country to crack the Top 40 chart. I don't like a lot of the I'm so proud to be white trash songs, though I wouldn't put 'Friends in Low Places' in that category. Is that because I like it, or because it doesn't fit? Hmm...
I don't like sissy voiced men. Nothing is worse than a high-pitched man singing country. Argh! Go sing Scottish ballads, already!

Anyone who is open-minded musically, but derides country has a problem. Some are musical snobs. Maybe, most. A few I know, say what they think everyone thinks, though I doubt they know if they honestly think it themselves. I have friends who will groan in disapproval at the slightest twang in a voice or steel guitar, before they even hear enough of a song to judge it. What is up with that? How can they hate every aspect of a musical genre?