Is it me? Maybe I’m too critical. I expect that if I read a description or review of something the baseline for credibility is that the item discussed is depicted accurately. Would you believe consumer reports if you wanted information on a dish washer and features that the article applauds belong on a lawn mower?

The trio of timelines can be jarring as you figure out how they all fit, and the fact that there are only a couple of women and no lead actors of color may rub some the wrong way. USA Today’s Booger Eating Moron Brian Truitt

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Thirty years ago I was the lead coordinator instructor of a regional police academy. I had a class of rookies and the topic of the day was patrol procedures, the patterns of violent encounters between suspects and police and tactics to counter the threat. The class just finished watching a training film that was the best of its kind. I was trying to encourage a class discussion, and just as things got rolling a blond, female, roundheels brought everything to a screeching halt with the statement,”Well, that film doesn’t have any bearing on what we do, they don’t even wear the same color uniforms!”

I admit that at that moment a bias I still hold was born. “You can’t have a female and competent cop in the same sentence without the presence of a swaggering bull dyke.