Infantilization is not really the cause for people's not getting engaged in social issues. The problem of lack of engagement stems from numerous causes: the narrowing of news coverage (the same three stories all day) and shrinking of news staffs; the media's failure to cover many issues; the media's penchant for…

The show is a mixed bag. I like the fact that it's a show with older women, but their saddled with dealing with their man issues. The dialogue is often facile and not genuine, which doesn't differentiate it from every other show with facile, fake dialogue that's supposed to be funny because it's said fast. Sometimes…