[SirJohnBarleycorn]

What's remarkable in that Atlantic article is how the author unselfconsciously describes characters and situations in silly, fictional television shows and movies such as Friends, Sex and the City, Will and Grace and Say Anything as being of serious importance and relevance for the way she approaches her own life and her own real-life relationships.

No sane man would want to marry a woman whose worldview is formed primarily from the degenerate sewage pumped out by Hollyweird and the popular culture.

[LastNorwegian]

Most people do form their worldviews based on TV. Politics, dating, how to raise children... People perceive what they see on TV as what is normal, acceptable and even expected.

Humans are a group animal. We are affected by those around us. And the vast majority of people look to the fictional people on TV in the same way as they looked to and adapted to get along with their neighbours in previous times. Such is human nature, and such is the power we have given to the hippies...

You’re right about sane men of course.