What I'm saying is, the easiest way to refute the trend of "White male nerd rage" is to not immediately perpetuate it when the concept of it is invoked.

If you wanted to pretend to sound neutral, you need to modulate your approach a little. An objective third party would note that there is real mysogyny in the country, and that's a real problem. Women occupy fewer positions of power than men, get paid less for fulfilling those roles, and their primary cause of death…

Any hope of calling their attack a strawman was destroyed when you decided to inhabit the straw.

"Peddle your mindless feminism…where it belongs" is not the neutral/objective language you think it is. That's how trolls talk, not people. The original poster was inflammatory, but rather than diffusing their attack or highlighting the outrageousness of their response, you've mostly just confirmed that they're not…

Interesting. I want to play too, but I have slightly different categories.

You don't get to turn the AV Club into a corner of the pro-GamerGate, only-straight-white-men-are-legitimate cess pool. Go back to 4Chan.

Great job, Corporate America!

I mean, he's not wrong. Aside from the trickle of award bait that rolls out around Thanksgiving, the quality of storytelling, characterization, acting, and mould-breaking on television is just incredible right now, and most episodes of prestige TV compare favorably to the best movies of the 70s and 80s. Cinema's kind…

Smarf!

Hail Grammar Hydra!

I found the third one (the one with a "not-so-fatal flaw") to be the only watchable one in the series. Even as entertaining as the fourth one is, it's also colossally stupid, in a way that I found too hard to ignore. It has a Cold War plot in 2012 - who's afraid of the Kremlin? At least the protagonist/villain dynamic…

I think Kimmel and Fallon represent an interesting split - Kimmel's definitely the more cynical and biting of the two, and his bits are a tiny bit edgier as a result (as edgy as anything on ABC). Fallon is trying to shoot the moon with sincerity, which certainly doesn't solve the world's problems, but it's nice to…

I agree with everything Todd's saying, but I still find myself enjoying Jimmy Fallon's presence, and I'm genuinely glad he got this gig. He's not the sharpest or funniest host, or the best interviewer - he probably is the most musically talented, for whatever that's worth. I think he only works if you consider shows…

Colbert is probably the sharpest person who's ever been on tv, able to hold onto his persona while letting his real opinions come through, without it feeling ham-fisted. It's incredible he's been able to sustain that for so long without falling into caricature. That said, on a day to day basis I still prefer Jon…

I'm actually just incapable of telling the actor BJ Novak apart from his fictional character Ryan on The Office, who left his familiar home in Scranton to live a life of reckless luxury in corporate, only to crawl back a few seasons later when his life fell apart.

I think B.J. Has a harder time because he entered the scene with this kind of prodigal son vibe. It's hard to feel like he's given his audience more than he's taken with ironic-or-not smugness and self assurance. Comedians need to struggle, or else it just feels like witty elitism.

All hail the marketplace! May the invisible hand rock you gently to sleep, my hyperbolic child.

True story. This album was overhyped two years ago, and yet listening to it now makes me want to be seventeen in a basement somewhere with some overlarge headphones and an afternoon to spare. If that doesn't make it vital I don't know what does - especially compared to Grizzly Bear and TV on the Radio's recent albums,…

I think the legacy burden is affecting these reviews too much. I don't know - maybe I also want to love it, but whichever way, it seems messy in a really fucking great way to me. They couldn't have done any of their old albums again without spinning their massive, overhyped wheels, so this seems as good a place as any…

This is a slippery area of attack, for sure, but for me Family Guy 'feels' more mean-spirited than South Park or Louie do, generally. It often seems to me that beneath all the posturing and mult-layered irony, it actually has a pretty dark view of human nature, consciously or not. South Park sometimes feels this way…