It is completely possible for someone to both volunteer for a women's shelter and engage in all sorts of activities which rationalize and perpetuate the misogyny built into our social institutions.

It is completely possible for someone to both volunteer for a women's shelter and engage in all sorts of activities which rationalize and perpetuate the misogyny built into our social institutions.

It may be extreme to diagnose it as "sociopathy", but it's equally wrong to confuse his narcissistic preoccupation with his image of himself as good father with love.

It may be extreme to diagnose it as "sociopathy", but it's equally wrong to confuse his narcissistic preoccupation with his image of himself as good father with love.

Out of a mixture of masochism and righteousness, I just downloaded the pilot.

Out of a mixture of masochism and righteousness, I just downloaded the pilot.

His realization in "Army of One" was good, but he didn't do anything about it — to change his life or encourage her to change hers so as to not be ruined by it. (Hence, I think, some of the later "revelations" about being a sociopath — that is, the sort who knows just what to say to convince a psychiatrist that he is…

His realization in "Army of One" was good, but he didn't do anything about it — to change his life or encourage her to change hers so as to not be ruined by it. (Hence, I think, some of the later "revelations" about being a sociopath — that is, the sort who knows just what to say to convince a psychiatrist that he is…

Of course you can consciously or unconsciously do things to hurt someone you love. That does not mean Tony loves his children, though.

Of course you can consciously or unconsciously do things to hurt someone you love. That does not mean Tony loves his children, though.

Tony's love for his kids isn't about his kids, it's about Tony and his vision of himself as (at the end of the day) a good guy. You can see this demonic, possessive, self-centered "love" of one's children in many other vigilante anti-hero characters. There is always a willingness to defend the child against outside…

Tony's love for his kids isn't about his kids, it's about Tony and his vision of himself as (at the end of the day) a good guy. You can see this demonic, possessive, self-centered "love" of one's children in many other vigilante anti-hero characters. There is always a willingness to defend the child against outside…

If you can watch this show and think that calling it "misogynist" is some uptight PC overreaction, then you're a misogynist.

If you can watch this show and think that calling it "misogynist" is some uptight PC overreaction, then you're a misogynist.

Once again, it's good to see that the reviewers are pretending that social norms have evolved so much since Cheers. Just imagine! A male boss who will hire a woman only for her looks! Sure, that might have happened in the 50s, back before the Civil Rights movement and all that, but these days? Never!

I kind of agree — Great Glass Elevator is just so out there, and it's not "out there" in the good way that Dahl's good stuff is, it's just out there. There's a very good biography of Roald Dahl by Jeremy Treglown, which details how most of Dahl's classics only became classics because some other person had perceptive…

I'm relieved that the viewers found one thing to universally dislike, even though disliking it meant importing assumptions/expectations foreign to the era and intentions of this show. Indeed, it was lazy and pointless of them to have Rhea Perlman play the role of her "sister" for one episode, without inserting even…

I don't think all, most, or even some of this show was perfect; I think David Cross is an annoying righteous little prig, sometimes; moreover, given what I've read about the way Cross deals with Internet criticism, I wonder if some of his defenders in these comments aren't strange minions to do his bidding of…

The problem isn't that there is over-analysis but that there is analysis about the wrong things masquerading as over-analysis. If you nitpick a show but don't understand what it's trying to do, the problem isn't that your nitpicks are excessively demanding — it's that they miss the point, and are wrong.

Yeah…exactly.