Criticism, it is the ego's game to hide the truth. The most used method to silence the truth is to kill the messenger. Since most people do not believe in their own judgment, they first need to trust the messenger before they can believe in what the person is saying. But the truth has nothing to do with the messenger. Even the devil can speak the truth, the truth just is.  So one of the many tactics devils use to hide the truth is to call the truth teller a hypocrite. Now the absolute truth is....this is really not a problem, life is the denial of absolute truth so if you are alive then you are already a hypocrite. But since most are unaware of their own hypocrisy they fall for this trap and ignore the truth and the devils successfully hide the truth. If you come out and admit yourself to be a hypocrite, you have now discredited yourself. That which has discredited itself, cannot be discredited by others. So now whatever you say cannot be discredited, because you have already removed yourself from the equation by first discrediting yourself. But wouldn't others choose not to listen? Sure initially they may first ignore you, but over time repetition will win over. But what is even greater is now they won't rely on whether they like or respect you to accept the truth. Acceptance of the truth becomes THEIR DECISION, not based on some BLIND FAITH IN THE MESSENGER. By the messenger bringing themselves down to the common man in terms of virtue, the truth can now STAND ALONE! People have a problem with believing in themselves and so they concoct reasons to believe others are better, they aren't better they are just a unique expression. A talkative man isn't better than a quiet man. A dumb man isn't inferior to an intelligent man. A fat girl isn't worse than a skinny girl. Everything has its place, everything has its purpose. Your selfishness and narrow ability to think will mask the place and purpose of each thing. A talkative man rarely listens, and never shuts up easily on cue. A quiet man bothers no one. A dumb man makes a good student, and a good teacher. They will need to learn because they are dumb, and they will teach you patience and compassion. An intelligent man makes a poor student and a poor teacher. He will refuse to learn because he knows better, and he will teach you that you are dumb and should listen to him. A fat girl can help you around the house, she has the strength to help you if you need some assistance with physical labor. A skinny girl needs you to help around the house and will give you more physical labor as she can move nothing. Sure she is something to look at, but beauty doesn't move tables or furniture.  This is not to demonize the opposites, but to show that everything is context related. Every identity fits some where, and doesn't fit depending on the circumstances. Life is just an identity game of knowing which identity fits which moment, and which to throw by the way side. Don't allow others to fool you with labels, they are just labels. All labels are just tools to make sense of things, but they never make sense of things because the truth is often hidden from view.