Weaver worked with Polanski too, on Death and the Maiden. Not a great film btw.

First, I think you’re doing somewhat of a disservice to Rosberg here. I think a good critic should always be ready and willing to back up their thoughts no matter the context. And I think that Rosberg as a critic certainly doesn’t need to rely on “well, I’m a woman, so just believe me.” My assumption is that she…

You’re right I am a random jamoke on the internet, but you’re still heaping a bunch of assumptions on this random jamoke. Thankfully if this was real life I would probably be “butthurt” instead of just confused by your assumptions of sexism where there is none: I’m nowhere criticizing her as a writer. The little I’ve…

I know that your response is to Dennis but felt I should add something; fwiw, I was indeed asking for explicit examples (I guess we disagree on what explicit examples are). And your response doesn’t read like you thought it was hilarious, but more like you were angry that I dared criticize your review, part of the…

Cool, thanks. I’m familar with WWAC already. I’ll check out the others. I’m not on Twitter, thankfully.

Jeez, no. That’s not what I was writing at all. I just didn’t get any specific examples of the sexism, at least not enough to explain the low grade, especially when she says the art is so well done. I am honestly curious about the details regarding that stuff. Sorry to wreck your narrative: I have no dogs in this…

Good, I’m glad I’m not completely off on my thoughts on this. I was also wondering about the whole appeal to authority thing which is always pretty weak. I admit my original post was easy to misconstrue, but... yikes.

Oh, sorry, that’s not what I meant by asking about good criticism, although I see how you could take it that way. I really am just looking for other sites that are good for criticism. It was not meant as a slight against the Avclub. I guess I miss the Comics Journal and was wondering if there’s an equivalent online…

I’m not telling you how to do your job, honestly. But I do think it’d be helpful to have some more examples of the sexism this book displays. I mean you give tell us about the lame extortionist plot, which does seems weak and lame, but it’s hard to make sense of the low grade and total damning of the book when the…