But since I was reading this in your LJ, and I've met you and have been reading your LJ for awhile, I knew you were talking about your specific girlfriend, rather than the generic girlfriend.
Your title "Steven Moffat's debut shows promise but fails the girlfriend test" does make it sound like the more cliche - and excruciatingly common "girls don't get this geek stuff" throwaway line, and had I not had the context necessary to know that you were in fact talking about a specific girlfriend, I would have assumed you were just making an asinine joke.
I knew what you meant
But since I was reading this in your LJ, and I've met you and have been reading your LJ for awhile, I knew you were talking about your specific girlfriend, rather than the generic girlfriend.
Your title "Steven Moffat's debut shows promise but fails the girlfriend test" does make it sound like the more cliche - and excruciatingly common "girls don't get this geek stuff" throwaway line, and had I not had the context necessary to know that you were in fact talking about a specific girlfriend, I would have assumed you were just making an asinine joke.