I thought the last few episodes of season 3 were pretty good but most of it was... yeah.

I have to say, I’m a bit surprised that Will Arnett was the one who didn’t say anything.

Sheesh, whoever their public relations advisor is should be fired.

Gotta say I did not expect that.

I just could never really identify with the whole neurotic Woody Allen/Philip Roth type of Jewishness. I grew up in a solidly upper middle class Jewish community where Kosher food was easy to access, Hanukkah was like Jewish Christmas, and Bar and Bat Mitzvahs were lavish parties. I was kind of an outcast in my own…

He probably was sexist but he was a white man born in the 30s. I have pretty low expectations.

I wonder how well his work translated to a younger generation. Like, especially as a millennial Jewish woman I’m wondering whether his work resonated with Jews of my generation the way it had with others.

So, I’m not very well caught up on the guy’s life but what did Claire Bloom have to say about him?

You could argue that most men are misogynists. The way that most white people are racists. It’s not a moral judgement. That’s how society is set up. You’ve got a responsibility to try to be better than that (there’s no excuse for the behavior of someone like Norman Mailer) but even the most well intentioned of male…

Don’t LGBT people generally target other LGBT people or am I mistaken on that?

Quite a few alt-righters are big fans of Israel. I guess they find something appealing about sending all the Jews away to their own ethnostate.

How has he not been metooed yet? Isn’t he infamous for assaulting male masseuses?

I think Boomers are a bit more naive when it comes to television and the media. I get the feeling they’re not as good at discerning bullshit. That or they’re just scared about getting old.

I honestly think a lot of them don’t get why the writers they looked up to were so celebrated in the first place. Hemingway was a good writer and probably an asshole, but he wasn’t good because he was an asshole. People seem to miss that though, and you get guys trying to ape the worst aspects of a writer instead of…

The thing is, I really did want to be a nice person. I just felt like I couldn’t be. When I was frustrated I would yell at people and tell them how stupid they were. I hit my mother a few times and I often had to stop myself from hitting my friends and classmates in high school (I used to grab peoples arms to stop…

It’s not the Holmes of the books, but a lot of modern day depictions of Holmes portray him as an asshole. I guess BBC’s Sherlock would be an example although I’ve only seen series 1, so I don’t know whether his character evolves.

Yeah that’s probably what happened with me. Also, if you’re a girl you’re kind of forced to be more social and you try to blend in more. I had a psychiatrist who kept saying I was too social to have it. Autistic women get really screwed. For example, I read somewhere that Courtney Love is autistic.

I got kicked out of a class in eighth grade because I “asked too many questions”. The teacher kept screaming at me until he made me leave. I also used to get yelled at by my dad’s friends when I got into political arguments with them. It didn’t help that I had a tendency to start crying when I heard viewpoints I found…

This whole reasoning is why I used to believe that you had to be an asshole to be a genius. I was always praised for my intelligence but scolded for my behavior so I assumed that the two were correlated. And because badly behaved girls tend to get criticized the most, I kind of internalized the idea that I was mean…

I read someone on Twitter comment that biographers tend to develop a kind of Stockholm Syndrome towards their subjects.