Valid point. As I said in reply to another comment, when criticizing through depiction, there's a fine line to walk and you run the risk of depicting too well and having people idealize the thing you were trying to criticize in the first place.

I'll take that into account. I think maybe I just need IRL people to quiet down about it for a while. The show just pushes so many buttons for me at the outset, so waiting til its over seems like a good option. When I can watch the whole thing as a completed finished piece, it will also be easier to have different…

Thank you for your thoughtful breakdown! The Nerdy Mr. and I are planning on having another go at it right about then.

I think you (and others) will probably turn out to be right in the long term, and I appreciate that you took the time to actually explain something that happened in the show instead of just saying, "No, you're wrong, and you should just watch this thing that keeps giving you a very strong negative emotional reaction…

I was being hyperbolic. That tends to happen on the internet. My inability to stomach the show has ended one relationship ever— with a bro-friend of a friend, who kept saying things like, "Women in the workforce has destroyed America and that's why Mad Men is so great. Because people can watch that and then they'll…

I watched half the first season, admittedly late, and I just didn't like it. Their depiction and everyone's unending love for Jon Hamm (and then, quite literally, Jon Hamm's penis in the tabloids) just rubbed me the wrong way. I might be able to sit down and enjoy it five or 10 years from now. I had to watch 2 other…

In that show, sure. Otherwise, that summation of me is self-predictive.

That right there is why I get into huge, friend-losing fights over Mad Men. I just hate it, and I can't watch ten seconds of it without thinking, "This show is nostalgically looking back to a time when it was okay to beat the shit out of your wife or your gay brother, or for the hell of it, that annoying kid down the…

It wasn't fun at the time, but with a lot of therapy and education, I've been able to use my horrible experience to gain perspective and empathy. Like I said before, I can't blame any of the reporters who came to see us. There's so little you can learn in a single pre-scheduled visit, especially in our case where the…

Yes! Every time I see this portrait I wonder if the artist tried to tell her a dirty joke or something.

Thank you for your hard work! From personal experience, I have to agree that it's more likely that kids will stay in danger than be removed from safety. CPS came to my house as a kid once because a school nurse overheard that my little brother swung a broom at my grandmother. The incident was traumatic, which had…

Agreed 100%!

Absolutely. Though, I think that it might also be a good lesson for CC to maybe not let twitter accounts for shows speak as the host of said show.

I think that there's a good comedy lesson here in not expecting people to be automatically familiar with you or your material. This is an If-Then joke, which gets used a lot in satire particularly.

If they don't want it to smell like dank, then they can pay the extra $50 for the cinnamon Yankee Candle. Or Oust. Oust and Fabreeze are semi-miraculous.

Pun-tacular. I laughed, like out loud, a real laugh.

Oh my god, let's smoke together some time. We might build a robot or cure cancer, or at least open a very successful laundromat/cleaning service.

I was trying to come up with a witty retort, but the Ex-Cubs Factor was just too high.

Yeah, but like [personally irrelevant sports team], red wine gives me hives.

I heard something related to that on NPR recently— that pig farmers are getting up in arms over Cali's new law that doesn't allow chickens to be caged as is standard in the industry, because they do the same thing.