Stating an opinion is not getting defensive. You can do whatever floats your boat.

EDIT: RE: Don't take me wrong, I sometimes hate the limitations that the GIL brings.

I'm continually looking at alternative implementations, like Pypy or Rubinius or JRuby, or other languages, like Haskell or Clojure, but then I end up doing a lot of yak shaving and nothing gets done.