What? Aren't you happy now? You were looking for validation and you got it (and from a fine individual, too). Let me make this easy for you: Join in, everybody, it's the 'validation from strangers' party!

A helpful tip: when you insult someone, make sure you get their gender right. Meanwhile, I'll go get my popcorn.

Cheese songs from the '80s that actually sound like they were recorded in the '80s. Nothing has aged as poorly as '80s music (although '90s alt-rock is slowly getting there with each passing year). If my opponent is immune to Starship's "We Built This City", Culture Club's "Karma Chameleon", anything by Roxette or…

dawesterity, that discussion was between me and Carol Brown. When you think someone is insulting you, you're bound to get defensive. It's a normal reaction. I thought Carol Brown was implying that she didn't think I should talk about something I wanted to talk about anymore (basically, that she wanted me to stop…

And what is hermeneutics? It's a method of interpretation that seeks a LARGER CONTEXT for INDIVIDUAL fictional characters, eg. paradigms, symbols, structures, etc. If you didn't seek a larger context for fictional characters, what's the point of interpreting a text or a television show? Individual character behavior…

Is there some way to delete these posts after we clear things up? I hope the moderators can delete them.

I'm not saying I only enjoy movies with female protagonists, but with New Hollywood movies, I insist on women being active participants partly because of the machismo, and at least partly because the New Hollywood is a genre immobilized between action and reaction, so I'd rather women acted than reacted. It's a…

Yes, I think that may be it. I hate "Pulp Fiction." Quote "Jackie Brown" and we're talking. I'm not a huge fan of snarky comebacks for likes, whether they are movie quotes or not. I like discussions where you don't demean your co-speakers. Humor is no excuse because comedy is truth. And just so we're clear, I don't…

I know about "Looking for Mr. Goodbar"'s anti-feminist sentiment. But "Looking for Mr. Goodbar" is a female-centric movie where the woman's role isn't to merely act as a catalyst for the male protagonist's realization. The woman in the movie doesn't just react, she acts. You're free to like movies where women react,…

Don't apologize, you meant it. Dare accepted. Second-wave feminism. But watch me raid one of your posting sprees in the future. I hate easy cheap shots like this and I will call you out on something. It's fun and games when you do it, but let's see how you like being on the receiving end. Choose your words carefully…

"It's also funny that Diane's vision of a perfect Sam is one who corrects her grammar."

This goes nicely with my posts below. Diane thinks of herself as a representative of all women (a second-wave feminism stance), but in the end she's in it for her own gain (undermining her second-wave feminism stance).

Hey, I didn't say Lilith looked bad after her makeover, I liked that look, what I meant was that that scene makes fun of second-wave feminism's opposition to beauty "standards."

Yes, I do realize that. Diane's thinking she's above everyone else is the running joke of the series. But are the two interpretations (her being high-strung, on the one hand, and the "unnecessary" pathos of second-wave feminism, on the other hand) mutually exclusive? I think they're rather similar, and the writers…

They do mention it in the episode. After Diane leaves the room, Coach and Sam are standing behind the bar and Coach says that he always thought Sam and Diane would make a great couple. That's when it occurs to Sam that Diane's perfect date for Sam is Diane herself. He remembers what she said earlier about her date for…

Oh yeah, for sure. There are numerous examples, like when she says that she and some guy she was about to start working for agree on one thing — they both find her adorable, or when she says that her dad's nickname for her was "muffin" because she was "so sweet and toasty." It doesn't bother me, though. I think it…

"[O]ne thing that's consistently interested me is how often these early Cheers episodes feel like products of the '70s rather than the '80s. […] I really like how this episode dramatizes Diane's passionately held second-wave feminist beliefs. […] Diane is earnest and pretentious, sure, but she's not unsexy, and that,…

I'm a huge fan of the New Hollywood, but I never particularly cared for Coppola. "The Conversation", "The Godfather II", "Apocalypse Now" are all good movies, but they're not among my favourite movies from that period. I just can't connect with any of Coppola's characters, which may be because I'm a woman and his…

Omega the Unknown, that's a very good point.

Baked Bean Teeth, I hate the fact that they used Diane as a plot point that way almost as much as I hate all the mean-spirited references to Diane after she'd left Cheers, in spite of her parting with Sam and the gang on good terms! I know they had to bring Diane back for the finale, but I hate it that they only…