That's the thing. Married With Children and its ripoffs like Unhappily Ever After literally *were* about how all men were pigs — Al Bundy shoves his pigness in your face every single moment of the goddamn show — and male viewers ate that up.

I think it was inevitable, though — it was the only way to satisfy the hardcore fans while avoiding the fact that for any ordinary moviegoer setting up a climactic final battle scene and then ending it with the limp anticlimax of the book is a massive, massive unforgivable tease — like the ending to Monty Python and…

I think it was inevitable, though — it was the only way to satisfy the hardcore fans while avoiding the fact that for any ordinary moviegoer setting up a climactic final battle scene and then ending it with the limp anticlimax of the book is a massive, massive unforgivable tease — like the ending to Monty Python and…

The book's purple prose when it goes into loving detail about how beautiful and graceful Bella is in vampire form is even more over-the-top.

The book's purple prose when it goes into loving detail about how beautiful and graceful Bella is in vampire form is even more over-the-top.

Renesmee's weird half-human half-vampire mojo means she ages at four times the rate of a normal person so when she's chronologically five years old she's physically and mentally a 20-year-old, which means he only has to wait that long to marry her.

Renesmee's weird half-human half-vampire mojo means she ages at four times the rate of a normal person so when she's chronologically five years old she's physically and mentally a 20-year-old, which means he only has to wait that long to marry her.

The film Rachel Getting Married was a great film in a lot of ways but marred, for me, by the fact that a huge amount of running time was wasted on wedding porn.

The film Rachel Getting Married was a great film in a lot of ways but marred, for me, by the fact that a huge amount of running time was wasted on wedding porn.

I hate myself for knowing this, but "true" werewolves are finally put onstage in Breaking Dawn, and it turns out that true werewolves are the ones who, like vampires, spread the "curse" of being a werewolf by biting other people. Jacob and his Native American wolf buddies are incapable of doing this and their…

I hate myself for knowing this, but "true" werewolves are finally put onstage in Breaking Dawn, and it turns out that true werewolves are the ones who, like vampires, spread the "curse" of being a werewolf by biting other people. Jacob and his Native American wolf buddies are incapable of doing this and their…

Well, being hilariously wildly unprofessional and joining in in mocking the series is more *fun* than just being an awkward person who doesn't do well at photo shoots, so there's that to consider as well as probably the large dollop of misogyny involved.

Well, being hilariously wildly unprofessional and joining in in mocking the series is more *fun* than just being an awkward person who doesn't do well at photo shoots, so there's that to consider as well as probably the large dollop of misogyny involved.

He was actually pretty likable as the son on NBC's My Own Worst Enemy, though it was completely unbelievable that he was related to Christian Slater and Madchen Amick.

He was actually pretty likable as the son on NBC's My Own Worst Enemy, though it was completely unbelievable that he was related to Christian Slater and Madchen Amick.

The people who were actually in favor of separating state domestic partnerships and religious/ceremonial marriages *before* it became a "gay" issue get a pass on this. I think there's maybe like 25 of them in the whole country and they're all from the '60s.

The people who were actually in favor of separating state domestic partnerships and religious/ceremonial marriages *before* it became a "gay" issue get a pass on this. I think there's maybe like 25 of them in the whole country and they're all from the '60s.

Thanks to you too. I really do enjoy hearing a positive defense of this story, because as I said before even though I'm coming down negatively on it here my own feelings about it come closest to "mixed". Wanda is a very, very compelling character drawn to be a real, believable human being in a relatively short time —…

Thanks to you too. I really do enjoy hearing a positive defense of this story, because as I said before even though I'm coming down negatively on it here my own feelings about it come closest to "mixed". Wanda is a very, very compelling character drawn to be a real, believable human being in a relatively short time —…

Fifty Shades is nowhere near as quirky and weird and bizarre to read or to read about as Twilight. It's a very straight and conventional romance-novel story only with all the sex stuff made super explicit instead of hidden behind discreet fades to black. It doesn't have "THIS IS THE SKIN OF A KILLER" or people getting…