in recent years, it seems that television has become a kind of an electronic confessional where guests are willing to expose painful and sometimes embarrassing aspects of their lives quite readily to millions of viewers. bianculli: at the beginning of the decade, we get the dominance of phil donahue. and that's sort of a maturation of women's issues. and he seemed to talk to them, in the audience, he seemed to talk to them through the tv screen. i'm glad you called. kiss the kids. [ laughter ] we'll be back in just a moment. if you look at the body of work we've had, you know, you're gonna see the '80s there. i'm not here to say you're wrong, but let's understand this. when you bring a moral judgment without knowing them, against them for the way that they look they feel that confirms the reason for their rebellion, if that's what you want to call it.