Finished Roseanne Barr’s first autobiography. It makes more sense the older she gets. She notes a contradiction between her strident confident feminism onstage as a comedian, and the way she lived at home in her first marriage (she married at 18 and had three children with her first husband). There’s a similar contradiction in her book, whereby she is vociferous about her feminist anti-war politics but clearly doesn’t give us the real deal about the war zones of her family growing up and then in her marriage.

Roseanne was a pioneer and she got to share her ideas with us every week on TV for nine years (and to our children forever in the form of repeats on Nick at Nite). The sitcom pushed boundaries, but those boundaries have gone now (right?) and the idea of a loud bawdy female comedian is no longer new. Her comedy was about helping working-class women get a life beyond family obligations, which isn’t what we call feminism anymore (is it?). I dunno, will just have to come back to that.