Did that really require such vitriol? You could have said "actually, it was mentioned recently in this post!" and I would have thanked you. Instead, I think you're kind of an asshole. 

This is a good show, and these are good reviews, but all you're doing is making me crave a series of Gilmore Girls reviews. Please?

@avclub-d9773268b3b8a34af17f8cff7aa99c8f:disqus I was, in what you quoted, referring to the critics TVDW was addressing in his Girls/sexism post, not simply anyone who doesn't like the show (or even the creator). I'm sorry if I was unclear, but I do not simply think that anyone who has a problem with the show is…

@avclub-41e23e24ee2670c4128cd7e5e5ee42ab:disqus Well, one reason is that the vast majority of critics are these loud, sexist assholes, rather than than intelligent, articulate critics that are good to engage with.

Well, honestly, people who like the show disagree. Tastes are different. I know you have a bone to pick, in that you feel like everyone is dismissive of your valid criticisms, but in reality, I don't really think anyone was dismissing actual criticism. The backlash to the show was marked by an actual notable sexism.…

Oregon-Alabama would have been an excellent match up this year, both in terms of skill and conference. I suppose we're all just waiting for the playoffs to really start.

Roll Tide, but can we all agree that total domination is not that interesting to watch? There were more interesting games in the regular season, and the SEC championship was by far one of the best games I've watched. I'd rather lose to A&M again than watch Notre Dame ever again.

That's fine, but most of the time, tattoos aren't really for other people. They're for the people who get them, and they don't really care whether you like them or not.

That's fine, but most of the time, tattoos aren't really for other people. They're for the people who get them, and they don't really care whether you like them or not.

I agree with this criticism as well. Even if I weren't simply disgusted by McEwan's misunderstanding of the purpose of art, on an aesthetic level, watching a character use her only skill as a way to never develop is simply unsatisfying.

I agree with this criticism as well. Even if I weren't simply disgusted by McEwan's misunderstanding of the purpose of art, on an aesthetic level, watching a character use her only skill as a way to never develop is simply unsatisfying.

Is that really all the reply you can muster? I honestly don't understand how you can make an argument that all art is self-serving, especially when you actually engage with the great works from the past 3000 years. It's like saying that every moral action is self-serving because it can benefit the doer in some…

Is that really all the reply you can muster? I honestly don't understand how you can make an argument that all art is self-serving, especially when you actually engage with the great works from the past 3000 years. It's like saying that every moral action is self-serving because it can benefit the doer in some…

I find this—"the artistic desire is always self-serving to an extent"—to be literally disgusting. Art about artists can be successful at showing discovery (To the Lighthouse, The Tempest, and to show someone who is technically proficient at art without ever being successful at the realization of truth isn't profound…

I find this—"the artistic desire is always self-serving to an extent"—to be literally disgusting. Art about artists can be successful at showing discovery (To the Lighthouse, The Tempest, and to show someone who is technically proficient at art without ever being successful at the realization of truth isn't profound…

Yes, but it's not really a "gut punch" if McEwan is simply presenting a use of art that doesn't actually work. It's just…nothing. I think her novel is a failure on her part, and I think that McEwan finds writing her writing her novel to be profound, while I just found it to be essentially meaningless. It presents an…

Yes, but it's not really a "gut punch" if McEwan is simply presenting a use of art that doesn't actually work. It's just…nothing. I think her novel is a failure on her part, and I think that McEwan finds writing her writing her novel to be profound, while I just found it to be essentially meaningless. It presents an…

Really? I intensely disliked it, since it robbed the story of authenticity. I think the idea of writing for atonement/redemption to be an abuse of the artistic goal. I'm probably overstating my case, but I think that the pursuit of art should be a discovery of something new through an artistic medium, rather than a…

Really? I intensely disliked it, since it robbed the story of authenticity. I think the idea of writing for atonement/redemption to be an abuse of the artistic goal. I'm probably overstating my case, but I think that the pursuit of art should be a discovery of something new through an artistic medium, rather than a…

I'm totally with you on Silence of the Lambs. A confession: I haven't actually seen the rest of them.