Title: Seems patronizing and critical
Product review: Moore and Gillette set up archetypes, starkly oversimplified character sketches of one-dimensional people with clearly delineated faults. Then they belittle people who "behave that way," attracting the respect of judgmental readers who love to share criticisms of third parties.Maybe in some ways the faulted behavior can be situationally appropriate. This possibility is never raised. I lost patience with the book after 30 something pages and flipped through the rest of it. The writer enables a critical audience to reinforce essentially irrational negative thoughts about people. Why should anyone be surprised to find the victims of that criticism responding to its irrationality in ways the critic does not want to hear?Some people will disagree with me, but that's because they like to be told they're oppositional.
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