I had originally written an article titled “What makes a review valuable?” which involved proposing that very question and then listing a few of my own ideas about possible answers while exploring the constant compromises and balancing acts one must strike as a reviewer, but the article came off as confused babble so I trashed it. This is a relevant topic of late, with a few posts here and there posing this, or similar questions related to review writing (this one I recommend in particular), but I think the problem with my first attempt at this article is that I saturated it with meta in an attempt to force it to be relevant, which is completely unnecessary. Relevance isn’t something that needs to be forced with impeccable timing and a smattering of meta. If it’s interesting, it’s relevant.

The other problem with my first attempt at this article is that the question “What makes a review valuable?” isn’t one that I’m best placed to answer myself. I can propose a few ideas and go through a few of the challenges to writing regular reviews that are both credible and valuable to read, but ultimately this is a question that needs to be discussed rather than just “answered”, simply because different people will have different ideas about the topic. So, the question I’m posing to you is, what makes a review valuable to you?

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My wife. This picture does not objectify women. This is a picture of a woman, and an extremely beautiful woman at that.

…and so wrong, for that matter?

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