I love Austen although I couldn't actually worship her if only because anyone who prefers Fanny Price to Elizabeth Bennett does not share my views on women, even if that person is the woman who created them both.
While I find the anti-Austen stance puzzling, I am consoling myself that at least you all have the good taste to dislike her writing solely on aesthetic grounds. When I was in college, I had all these neo-hippie friends who didn't like her because they just couldn't "identify" with all the upper crust British characters. Whatev.
Rather like hummus.
And now we're dissing hummus too? Is there no limit?!?