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[quote=Anonymous]Definitely Boomer. I do look for quality stuff. Ditto books. I had a Kindle given to me as a gift I never used until Covid lockdowns. I mostly don't buy books for Kindle (I like hard copy versions) but I do use Libby and have discovered what people mean by "literary fiction" is 90% drivel IMO (I think if the title is "TITLE--A Novel" it's enough to get classified that way).

But it's most irritating when a mostly good quality show has these lapses. I recently watched Lessons in Chemistry. Got hooked in the first episode. In some respects I felt it was over the top romance-wise but ok. But then although I know how grotesque chauvinism, could be in the 70s and 60s (I was there) if not so much in the 50s (I was too little) the cartoonish TV producer was. . . cartoonish. Besides, he thinks the advertising demographic for a cooking show is going to be husbands and they control the shopping? Might control buying the car and might hand out the grocery money each week but they are not picking out the canned soup.

There's an episode where she takes on the producer over shortening, telling the audience it is made from seed oils which damage mitochondria. 
At the time, mitochondria research was much more basic, nobody was questioning seed oils--we hadn't even reached the point where animal fats were claimed to cause heart disease (which, in the 60s, led to embracing margarine and vegetable shortening until trans fats which led to liquid oils and now there are (unproven) claims regarding seed oils being bad). So the scene is absolute bullshit influencer moment (I'm not a scientist, but consider myself science-literate).

Last thing is that I'm positive when she found the Charlie Parker record it had a post it note on the cover. I could be wrong about that.

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