From the 18 August 2010 edition of Roger Ebert’s “Answer Man” letters column:
Q. I have watched and read your reviews for years with great honor. I disagree so strongly with your review of “Eat Pray Love” that it makes me sick. You just don’t get it, and many others like you don’t get it. You do not know at all what it is like being a woman in this day and age (or previously) who did not want to be defined by a man or married off to one. If you think Stephen in the movie was an OK husband, you are out to lunch. He was horrible!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (except on paper to people who do not need emotional sustenance). David was the narcissist from hell that many of us have fallen for… do you not get that??????????? Many of the males of the species are frankly overrated and the women’s movement has proven this (or frankly not sufficiently). I hope your wife will bring you up to speed. (Jeanine Carlson, Ph.D., Licensed Clinical Psychologist)
Ph.D.
Licensed Clinical Psychologist.
Oh dear.
Now, it’s the Internet, so who knows. FWIW, there is a Jeanine Carlson with these credentials in Falls Church, VA. If she didn’t write this, I pity her. If she did … hoo boy.
