I'm sure your friend is a nice guy, and I'm not trying to bash him when I say that it just sounds like narrow thinking to me, when there are so many other ways to describe people. You could be a fancier, a free spirit, an iconoclast, comfortable, paying homage, rebel, true to yourself, experimental, going through a phase, enjoying a newfound affinity ... whatever...

But to be stuck on only one possible explanation when so many alternate explanations (as though you needed one) may exist, well, that sounds a little stubborn to me. Or maybe he's considered them and doesn't believe any of them, or can't fathom them, or is goading you, or ....

Regards,
Rex.