I can take it. Some people will. You should give it up. These same editors will often tell you that no writer worth his salt would ever listen to such nonsense anyway. Probably, you are.
Most writers are like that.
Most writing professionals won't tell you what's wrong with your work, and they certainly won't tell you to give it up. Lots of reasons, really. There isn't enough time in the day to tell all submitters why their work failed to make the cut. But the most important reason an editor isn't likely to tell you to give it up is that history has proven them wrong too often. I know an editor who passed on Grisham's The Firm .