You're a knight, aren't you? That would account for the touchiness.

Not only is the devil in the detail, nuance is, too. There is a world of moral difference between loathing a person's pretension and loathing the person.

I don't loathe individual knights (don't know any personally, to be frank), but I am repulsed by their organisational ethos. I've found that such groups are founded on pretension and status-seeking, and are seen as a means of social advancement and tactical career moves. (Why do the Freemasons come to mind?)