By: 2goldfish
There certainly is anti-intellectualism in France, and for having been called an “intello” (a derogatory shortening of “intellectuel”) in my school years in France, I’d say it fits the bill perfectly...
View ArticleBy: eric b
Noah, There’s typical sit-com humor (which you don’t like)…and then there’s complete dearth of humor. BBT exemplifies the latter, along with that godawful sinkhole 2 1/2 Men, which serves as BBT’s...
View ArticleBy: Alex Buchet
Not really, 2goldfish. ‘Intello’ just shows what you’re into, the way ‘Goth’ or ‘Emo’ might do in today’s American high schools. And someone into science/computers/whatever American ‘nerds’ would...
View ArticleBy: Tweets that mention One Brain to Rule Them All « The Hooded Utilitarian...
[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Anthony Morris, TU Cultural Studies. TU Cultural Studies said: One Brain to Rule Them All – critique of TV's The Big Bang Theory http://bit.ly/hwFyZ2 [...]
View ArticleBy: K.L.Richardson
Reading all these comments about BBT is just like listening to Sheldon pontificate about…well anything and everything. You guys have less of a life than the Bangers do. Lighten up it is just a silly...
View ArticleBy: Noah Berlatsky
Popping up to tell everybody to lighten up on a months old comments thread is a little ridiculous. If you care, comment, if you don’t, click on to something else. Or, alternately, you could be a...
View ArticleBy: Elizabeth McClung
Or perhaps, a theory which seems proved by the names on comments, it is the static world of males, male in-humor and obsessions. The only character which interested me left in season 1, because she had...
View ArticleBy: Noah Berlatsky
She came back! She’s still around, I think, though how important she is has vacillated…. HU comments always skew male, pretty much, so I think it’s more the venue than the show…or at least, I don’t...
View ArticleBy: Elizabeth McClung
I am glad she returned. Can you shed any light on why certain sites, liek HU, IMDB, and reddit have such a male drift of appeal? Women watch TV, often buy more books, and are present on the net yet for...
View ArticleBy: Noah Berlatsky
Hey Elizabeth. As to why HU’s comments section skews male…I don’t know exactly. I try pretty consciously to get women writers for the site, and have been at least somewhat successful…though again,...
View ArticleBy: wil-wilson ivey IV
to: “you all” ……..dec-08-2012…………………….. from: mr. ivey, and G.O.D. aka, good-olde-dean…………. ……Noah..please, watch T.V. have some entertainment……. ……you are not reading the plans for an Atlas V Saturn…....
View ArticleBy: Noah Berlatsky
I love that you’re commenting on a two-year old article with a largely expired comments thread in order to tell us all to stop caring so much. Who says god doesn’t do irony?
View ArticleBy: The Big Bang Theory, une micro-adaptation critique | Picturing it!
[…] son manque de respect pour la culture geek et dans une moindre mesure son sexisme ; de Wired à The Hooded Utilitarian, ce discours prend des formes assez cinglantes. A titre personnel, j’ai...
View ArticleBy: The Big Bang Theory, une micro-adaptation critique – Picturing it!
[…] son manque de respect pour la culture geek et dans une moindre mesure son sexisme ; de Wired à The Hooded Utilitarian, ce discours prend des formes assez cinglantes. A titre personnel, j’ai...
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