She gets high marks proving herself to be wit-free.

I have sympathy for Ellelque's point as well. There's nothing wrong with peddling your work, but not by making a point that isn't honest. I don't know, of course, that she doesn't believe what she's selling, but no careful observer of the show could possibly come away with the impression she did, and to make the allegation without careful observation or stating more than once that you say part of an episode and it existed in a vacuum, and the most you can do is use it as a discussion point rather than make a point about the actual show, and I'm running out of commas, largely discredits her. But might sell books — too bad her last name isn't O'Hara.

Of course, I've spent time on the IMDB board which has worn down all tolerance for people incapable of paying attention or processing simple information.

Ellelque, it may be that the author is being cheesy, but it may also be that when her pet peeve appears on screen, it irritates her too much to pay close attention. I know the feeling and I sympathize, even though she's wrong.

My problem was more with the fact that she states that "I caught one of the recent reruns from the first season, and, just to stay current, tried to watch it all the way through."

She bases her whole article on "women niche" but failed to sit through the whole episode and see that it indeed comes up with what she is trying to say, Women are the market.

I just think that is wrong to promote her book at the expense of putting down another work, Matt's. It would have been more appropriate to priase Matt's writing and how it show's her own theory about how there was a time when they felt women were a niche. Matt's writing is a work in progress that will eventually show these people and the society evolve. How else are we to understand how far we've come if we don't see where we were.

Ellelque, there is nothing wrong with a writer promoting her own books. And she is not the one who decides what a byline will look like. When you write for publication, you submit the byline info (Deborah Lipp, author of…, lives in…, blah blah blah), and the publication decides what and how much of it will appear. Her authorship promotes her book, and also gives her authority; it is her credentials for writing the article. It is in no way unethical.