CSI:NY SPOILERS for 320-323

Spoilers for the last few episodes have begun to trickle in, and from what I've read, I'm unimpressed, but we'll see. Last year, the show finished with a spate of strong episodes. The only exception was "Charge of This Post", and I'd rather pretend that didn't happen if you please. So would the writers and producers, apparently, since the incident therein was never mentioned or even indirectly alluded to ever again.

Still, the spoilers don't seem promising:

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Why Does All the Stupid Flock to TalkCSI

It should come as no surprise that TalkCSI is full of hand-wringing hippies. In my last post, I wrote the following:

If I ever needed proof that this franchise was catering to pubescent girls and lonely, bored, housewives, there it is, encapsulated in all its putrescent glory. Good God. "Destiny" is for soap operas and fanfiction.

This did not sit well with MyName, who responded thusly:

ahemmm....
i'm a housewife and sometimes i am bored, (i laugh and joke at it myself in a funny way...), does that lower me in any way?

Well, OK. A legitimate question, I suppose. I attempted to defuse the situation with what I thought was a hyperbolic response that would illustrate the intended audience I meant. I answered with this:

...

Not unless you live vicariously through unrealistic TV romances and change the channel on anything requiring a firing synapse.

It was, I thought, a gross generalization that would obviously exclude her from the pool of mouth-breathers for which most D/L seems to be written. After all, she has a firing synapse, right?

Nope:

i just think that what you wrote was out of place,KWIM?
i'm notta gonna stand up for the-housewives-pride,but being "commercial" or however you wanna call it, has absolutely nothing to do with what is your main activity in life and it's very sad that it comes out in this very stereotipical way.
i'm not up for discussion but that remark got to me.
what happened to politically correct (now i'm just kidding, for the record.

I snapped at that point and fired back with this:

Oh, for the love of screaming Jesus on toasted cornflakes. If you aren't up for discussion on the topic of the oppression of housewives, then why did you respond? I'm not the first person to make such a statement about the direction of the show. In fact, an almost identical thought was expressed in the Dear Writers thread? Where was your umbrage then?

That you took the statement as a reflection of your value as a human veing is not my problem.

And she answers thus:

i wrote something as with this post right now you got me pretty pissed but i deleted.
it doesn't matter, you know?
i just think i was much nicer with you than you were with me.
if i were you, and i'm not, i would have just apologized like "i don't think i said anything wrong but if i did than i'm sorry"...
i mean a simple i didn't mean it like that would have been great don't you agree?
you ceirtainly are up for discussion. big time.
and BTW, if your remark was about me being gay for example that would look like a totally different matter wouldn't it?
and i don't care about what someone else wrote in another thread, i'm reading yours now and i answer.
during that other post i was probably being a lonely bored housewife, i guess.

What? Just what? This was my reply:

What? Just...what? What does sexual orientation have to do with the price of beans? As far as I know, there is no such thing as "gay TV", or TV specifically tailored to the LGBT community. By contrast, there certainly is television marketed towards teens and housewives. It's called soap operas, and the writers are very clearly intent on treading a path aimed at that market with the D/L storyline.

Your analogy between sexual orientation and employment status is ridiculous, and I can only assume you're trolling. As Silencer proved, people such as I described-bored, lonely housewives-do exist, and so do bored, lonely housewives without a firing synapse. If they didn't, writers wouldn't reach for them as a useful analogy or absurdist device.

At no time did I insinuate that you were a bored, lonely housewife, let alone a bored, lonely housewife without a firing synapse. In fact, I tried to imply the opposite with my initial reply. You made that leap on your own, and that's not my problem.

I'm stepping away from this. If you really want to continue the idiocy, PM me. The thread doesn't need this useless fapping.

Goddamn, the Internet makes people stupid.