I guess Myrna Blyth could just be grateful that the Times reviewed her book, even if it was a nasty, snide, catty, petty (get the point?) review. That’s more than John Stossel, Sean Hannity, Rich Lowry, etc., have gotten. I imagine John, Sean, and Rich might have received a slightly less ruthless treatment, though. The difference? None of those three gents betrayed the sacred sisterhood.

One of my favorite parts of the Times review may be where Nussbaum swipes Blyth for having “a seriously deaf ear for pop culture.” Nussbaum’s evidence? Blyth’s “sniping blandly on Lifetime’s women-in-peril movies with the complaint that they are insufficiently realistic.” There’s a lame swipe–not Blyth’s (the “network for women” speaks for itself), Nussbaum’s.